Couldn't have said it better myself

Found this in the NG Drving Guides to America, California And Nevada and Hawaii edition page 154.
"Only one state in the U.S. grows Coffee--Hawaii--and the best comes from the Kona district of the Big Island. In fact, conoisseurs rank this arabica coffee among the world's top brews. A missionary planted the first trees in Kona around 1828. The growing conditions were perfect--rich volcanic soil, an elevation above 1,200 feet, cool breezes, light rains. In springtime, slopes are blanketed with white blossoms, aptly named Kona Snow. Between September and January, field workers harvest cherry red berries. Coffee's valuable part is the seed--the coffee bean. Each year, a tree produces only enough beans to make a single pound of roasted coffee. But brewed up, that coffee is as pure and intoxicating as sunshine."