Finally found the BEST coffee!
It exists, people! The best coffee I’ve ever in my life had, after all coffee subscriptions, and specialty coffee tastings, and countless of bags from different cafes is…
*drumroll*
……… from UCC Hawaii’s Estate Grown coffee. Yup! You read it. Me, out of all people, speaks about “Best” and being so biased about loving the coffee, from where I work at.
If some of you have read from my previous blog, Is there a place for BEST, you can be curious as to how I arrived with a topic like this.
I always raise my eyebrows on this subject, but I had to review my statement, having to work in the same farm for more than a year now.
Maria brought me to understand a different perspective. Every time she drinks a cup of coffee she brews, or whenever we drink the pot of estate grown coffee, she’d always say “Mmm! Sabroso mi cafe”, meaning “My coffee is delicious!” or “This is the good coffee”. I smile with her statements, but she’d always follow it up with saying “of course, it’s our coffee” and laugh. 😆
I could not quickly agree with this in the past because “Best” is in preference, but after having to work with UCC Hawaii for more than a year now, I finally understood.
I can say it’s the Best because it’s a product of our hard work. It’s a product of the effort we exert to take the rocks off the trenches, keep our plant nursery healthy, control the pest by spraying with a 28lb backpack while walking the rocky areas and coffee rows (oh and sometimes slipping but quickly getting up because a coworker might laugh), meticulously reminding and teaching our pickers to pick red, and many other backbreaking and mind challenging ways to keep our coffee plantation producing good quality coffee. It’s one crop with a great amount of work! Especially during this year, where we are extremely short handed, it takes so much!
I am proud to say that our coffee is the best because in everything we do, we pour our heart and minds on doing our best. You can say I’m biased and all, but ask me about our coffee, and I can guarantee you that I can speak about our crop and work in detail. Mmmmm! I love our coffee!
