December 21st, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Who seem to doesn’t love coffee? if you are like most of the planet, you enjoy a pot of joe pretty frequently. In reality, probably each and every morning and afternoon. The coffee craze is certainly in full effect. there is certainly just no escaping that absurdly great aroma of arabica coffe beans, in addition to various other roasts bought from supermarkets and coffee shops nowadays. Today you plain and just have so many choices in terms of your coffee habit. regardless of if you prefer mocha, hazelnut, amaretto, vanilla, raspberry, or perhaps coconut, you will find lattes and cappuccinos on the market to suit virtually everyone.
One thing everyone should know is that they do not have to settle for a coffee shop or local java house net their daily fix of arabica coffee beans or locally roasted coffee. Try making you cool and fancy beverages at your home. That is the wonderful way to get your caffeinated beverage …
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March 3rd, 2010 by Geoff Marks
Just as a cafe owner is about to serve a customer, he falls victim to the charm and wit of an adorable coffee bean mameshiba and its irreverently funny trivia. More info: mameshibaworld.com
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November 25th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
The aroma of freshly ground coffee beans is like no other aroma on earth. It is almost intoxicating, and certainly warm and inviting. That aroma that has an underlying nutty essence is unquestionably one of the most pleasant odors on earth.
That wonderful aroma is likely one of the reasons that so many people now own coffee bean grinders and grind their own beans to make every pot of coffee.
Grinding coffee isn’t a new thing. In the old days, people actually used a bowl and pestle to grind coffee as well as wheat and corn. Using a bowl and a pestle to grind coffee required muscle power and time…a lot of time. As mankind got smarter, hand grinders were invented that made the task of grinding coffee much less physically challenging as well as quicker.
Manual coffee grinders were used for many, many years. In most of the old western shoot-em-ups, if you look closely at the general-store scenes …
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November 17th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
The specialty coffee industry has actually organized itself, and there is a national organization that is known as the SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America). Even though the name specifies “of America,” the organization is actually worldwide. It now boasts more than 2,000 members. The organization has been in existence for more than a decade and continues to grow every year.
The membership roll of the Specialty Coffee Association of America is made up of coffee retailers, roasters, producers, exporters, and importers, as well as manufacturers of coffee equipment and related products.
The specialty coffee industry is one of the fastest-growing segments of the food industry worldwide. Specialty coffee is sometimes referred to as “gourmet coffee” or “premium coffee.” These are not products that are usually found on the shelves of your local grocery store or your local chain discount store. These specialty coffees are sold at specialty coffee stores in the real brick-and-mortar world, …
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November 6th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
Remember the old movie, “Cheaper by the Dozen”? The point was that quantity cut costs. Well, there are other “points” made in the movie of course, but you get my drift here. The fact is that you can save money by buying almost everything in larger quantities. There is a good reason why this is true. Packaging costs decrease, transportation costs decrease, and handling costs decrease, so larger quantities of almost anything can be sold for a smaller unit cost than smaller quantities of the same item. And coffee is no exception to the rule.
The secret of buying in bulk and making it cost-effective is that you must store bulk coffee in an airtight container. Air is what degrades coffee, whether the coffee is in a whole bean form or has already been ground. You know that smaller quantities of coffee are packaged in vacuum containers. The reason that they are packed like …
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October 12th, 2009 by Geoff Marks
You probably never heard of Starbucks before the 1990s, but the company has actually been around longer than that. Starbucks opened their first store way back in 1971 in Seattle. The name is nautical in nature. It was taken from Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. Moby Dick is a classic about the whaling industry in the 19th century. It is a rather appropriate name, since the coffees that Starbucks served were imported from around the world.
Then in 1982, Howard Schultz joined the Starbucks organization and while he was on a trip to Italy, he discovered the popularity of the espresso bars and decided that the idea had potential for the Starbucks Company. The rest, as they say, is history. During the 1990s, Starbucks spread out across the United States as well as into the rest of the coffee-drinking world and soon became a publicly traded company. Today there are more than 6,000 Starbucks …
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