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Meadow Gold’s new Kona Coffee Premium Ice Cream is available at select grocery stores across Hawaii. Meadow Gold will also be providing samples of the new flavor at selected stores. Visit www.lanimoo.com for more information about the product and for a list and schedule of stores featuring product samplings.

Organic Kona coffee grower expands products

Located at a 3,200-foot elevation on Hualalai Volcano, Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation is a place coffee lovers go to find 100 percent organic Kona coffee. To meet the growing demand for the best of Kona’s signature crop, Mountain Thunder Plantation’s award-winning products are moving down the slopes of Hualalai and into Costco, Maui Wowi Hawaiian’s worldwide franchises and grocers’ freezers, working together with Meadow Gold Dairies of Hawaii.

“Mountain Thunder not only provides these companies with Kona coffee, but the highest quality Kona coffee available,” owner Trent Bateman said. “Our mission is to be purveyors of the finest 100 percent Kona coffee possible. Anything less than perfect does not get the Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation name on it.”

With demand for Mountain Thunder products growing hotter than a cup of their brew, Bateman decided it was time to cool down. So he developed his own premium Kona coffee-flavored ice cream concept that was recently scooped up by Meadow Gold Dairies of Hawaii. While most Kona coffee ice creams on the market settle for freeze-dried 10 percent blends for flavor, the collaborative recipe uses an extract derived from Mountain Thunder’s ultra-fine grind 100 percent Kona coffee to enhance the flavor and provide a speckled texture.

Meadow Gold’s new Kona Coffee Premium Ice Cream is available at select grocery stores across Hawaii. Meadow Gold will also be providing samples of the new flavor at selected stores. Visit www.lanimoo.com for more information about the product and for a list and schedule of stores featuring product samplings.