Big Island Coffee Roasters

Big Island Coffee Roasters was founded by Kelleigh Stewart and Brandon von Damitz, who bought a Puna coffee farm in 2010 and launched the roasting business in 2013. That same year their Puna Pink Bourbon won Grand Champion at the Hawaii Coffee Association Statewide Cupping Competition, and they opened the first coffee mill in East Hawaii. The company stopped farming in 2019 to focus on buying, processing and roasting coffee from more than 15 Hawaii farms in Kona, Kaʻū, Puna, Hamakua and other islands, and opened its Hilo roastery and café in 2023. It was a 2022 Roast Magazine Roaster of the Year finalist and placed two coffees on Coffee Review’s Top 50 Coffees of 2025: Kaʻū Morning Glory (No. 6, 97 points) and Moaʻula Ohana Blend (No. 30, 96 points). For home brewers it is one of the few places to buy carefully processed, high-scoring Hawaiian microlots alongside approachable blends.