Molokai coffee

Moloka‘i coffee refers to a legally protected, geographical indication of coffee grown on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawai‘i, and processed to specific, legally defined standards.

Requirements for Moloka‘i coffee not only dictate the origin and quality, but also label design and placement on product package.

[3] Four years later, 600 acres were planted with coffee and by 1993 the first commercial harvest was produced.

[5] For example: [Molokai] Prime green coffee consists of Hawaii beans which are clean; which do not impart sour, fermented, moldy, medicinal, or other undesirable aromas and flavors when brewed; which do not exceed twelve per cent or which does not contain less than nine per cent moisture by weight; and which do not exceed twenty per cent defective beans, by weight, included therein not more than five per cent, by weight, sour, stinker, black, or moldy beans that equal full imperfections only, as described in subsections (i)(1) and (i)(2); which may be assigned a size classification as stated in subsection (j)(1);German merchant Rudolph Wilhelm Meyer (1826–1897) grew coffee on the island and also built a sugar mill.

The packaging, a 13-ounce (370 g) can, featured two red hummingbirds on a light yellow background filled with flowers.