My wife (The Accountant Lady) and I started a little (400 square feet) coffee shop on Front Street in Lahaina on Maui in 1992. The rent was $6,250.02 a month. A bit steep. We had to sell a lot, I mean a lot of coffee in order to make the rent and have a little left over for bits of food . We were using imported Italian espresso beans. They were the best beans we could find until one day ...

We were on the other side of the island and walked into Maui Coffee Roasters. The best coffee in the world lived there. We started using their Kona Coffee and Espresso in our shop. But then ... disaster struck.

Our money-mad-greed-crazed-weasel of a landlord raised our rent to 8 thousand frog skins a month.

Eight thousand dollars.

A month.

We were doomed.

No more nice little coffee shop. No more nice little jobs and no more nice little income. (Boo-Hoo-hoo. Bring in the sad violins.)

In 1995 the Internet arrived. Actually it was already there. We just stumbled over it. (Remember Netscape 1.1?)

On a whim ... (Whim? Who talks like that?) We decided to see if anybody "out there" was psycho about good coffee. I built this website aided by an assortment of books that had all the word "Dummies" prominently in the title. The rest is history.

Now we offer these "Extreme Beans" to the rest of the world via the WWW (or World Wide Waiting for a cable modem or DSL.).

The owner of Maui Coffee Roasters, Nicky "Beans" Matichyn, has been in the coffee business since 1972. He established Maui Coffee Roasters in 1985 to meet the growing demand for fresh Hawaiian Coffee. His extensive knowledge of coffee and experience in the coffee trade ensures that only the finest and most flavorful beans are selected for roasting.

The finest coffees from Kona on the Big Island, Maui, Kauai, and Molokai, as well as a wide variety of world coffees are roasted daily and delivered to the four corners of the Earth. Our motto,

reflects our philosophy to push coffee to the extremes of good taste. We offer several varieties of Kona Coffees, Hawaiian Island Coffees, Flavored Coffees, Organic Coffees, and International Coffees all either regular or decaffeinated. You won't believe our low prices, or how easy it is to order from us.