Mauna Kea Cacao
28-568 Kaupakuea Homestead Rd, Pepeekeo, HI 96783, USA
69 reviews
About
Discover award-winning Hawaiian cacao grown on the Hamakua Coast, where bean-to-bar chocolate makers source their finest beans. Tour the farm and taste the world-class cacao that's earned Best Cacao honors at the Big Island Chocolate Festival.
Best For
Farm and factory tours
Visitors who want a guided look at cacao, chocolate making, or both.
Chocolate tasting
Travelers comparing bars, origins, or tasting-room experiences.
Hawaii-grown cacao
People looking for local cacao, estate chocolate, or bean-to-bar makers.
Gift shopping
Picking up bars, boxes, cacao products, or chocolate souvenirs.
Single-origin bars
Chocolate fans who care about farm, island, and origin specificity.
Highlights
What Makes It Different
- Mauna Kea Cacao is a cacao farm on Hawaii's Big Island that grows award-winning cacao beans and sells them to bean-to-bar chocolate makers. They grow Hawaiian cacao on their own farm.
- This listing has explicit farm-to-bar or bean-to-bar signals rather than only generic chocolate retail signals.
- It is tagged for Hawaii-grown cacao, which makes it especially relevant for local-origin chocolate searches.
- Tours are part of the visitor experience, so it can work as an activity stop instead of only a retail stop.
Tours Available
90-minute farm tour including cacao orchard exploration, harvesting and tasting your own pod, learning fermentation and drying processes, and sampling chocolate made from single-estate cacao.
Price: $50 per adult, $25 per child (5-17 years), children under 5 free
Products
- •Farm-fresh cacao nibs
- •Single-estate chocolate
- •Home-made Hawaii chocolate
- •Award-winning cacao beans
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Quick Facts
- Island
- Big Island
- Category
- Shop, Bean-to-Bar, Farm Tour
- Tours
- Available
- Tastings
- Available
- Products
- Farm-fresh cacao nibs, Single-estate chocolate, Home-made Hawaii chocolate +1 more
- Cacao
- Hawaii-grown focus
Hours
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 10:00 am and 1:00 pm