Pacific Coffee Research (PCR), a specialty coffee lab in Kona, Hawai’i, was founded in 2017 as a heart for coffee professionals opposite a Hawaiian Islands to bond growers to any other and yield training for people who work in specialty coffee in all capacities (wholesale suppliers, café owners, roasters, baristas, feeling analysts) via a specialty coffee value chain.
In a early days, PCR had a little space on a side of Mamalahoa Highway in Kealakekua (south of Kona town) subsequent to Big Jake’s B-B-Q. In reduction than dual years, PCR had such success with a programs and expansion initiatives that it was means to secure code new digs north of a airfield in Makalei Estates, on a carbon-neutral coffee farm. The core is state-of-the-art — a Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) Premier Training Campus, peculiarity research and cupping lab, roastery, and extensive Hawai’i coffee preparation center. Because Hawai’i is both a coffee-consuming and -growing segment (the usually one in a U.S. solely for burgeoning California), PCR is ideally situated to try a whole supply chain, and residence a challenges, from a hyper-local vantage point.
PCR’s latest creation is to offer live practical workshops during a shelter-in-place in many tools of a universe that attempts to squash a bend of COVID-19. Coffee experts Brittany Horn and Madeleine Longoria-Garcia will horde a array of workshops on a Zoom platform, starting with a tasting of 4 Hawai’i coffees that participants will decoction and ambience during home simultaneously. The initial tasting sole out right away, and a second seminar is designed for Tuesday, May 5th.
For this series, PCR has partnered with Kona Roasted, a new code clinging to showcasing coffees from Hawai’i’s best farms. Once we register for a two-hour seminar (just $50), PCR will boat samples to we —four coffees from 4 opposite flourishing regions and 3 islands — and yield minute instructions for brewing your samples during home. All we need is a temperature-controlled kettle, a burr grinder, a gram scale, and your brewing apparatus of choice. (I will use a elementary Hario pourover setup.) You’ll also get login instructions for a event.
Virtual tasting label for Pacific Coffee Research’s initial practical tasting workshop.
Pacific Coffee Research
In further to tastings, PCR has announced a Sensory Training Palate Development Experience, a initial of that is slated for Apr 23rd. (Registration will tighten on Apr 16th to safeguard timely smoothness of materials.) This two-hour seminar goes over a end of coffee; it will interest to people meddlesome in expanding their feeling skills in propinquity to season in ubiquitous — booze and drink lovers, chefs and home cooks — anyone meddlesome in exploring what “flavor” is and how all a senses bond around season perception.
The instructor will lead participants by any practice and give students time to perform them by a common online video contention – together, though in apart spaces. There will be time for contention and questions.
Keep an eye on PCR’s full calendar for new events as a array develops. These workshops are a good approach to enhance your possess feeling skills and support Hawaiian farmers, roasters, and coffee educators during a same time.