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Coffee Starbucks Introduces TRINTA

coffeesage Americans love their coffee.  It seems we can’t get enough of the stuff.  Well, Starbucks is going to try to fill our unfillable thirst and addiction to java. Starbucks introduced us to the 24 ounce Venti, but apparently that was not enough.  They are now introducing us to the Trinta, which...

1 day ago by christy

Coffee MSI Coffee Tasting Club: Week #1 – Organic Yukon Blend®

blogs.starbucks Hi ~ I’m Pamela and I am a new moderator on MSI.  My role as a territory manager, on the Food Service (FS) team, is to work with national and local FS accounts who offer the We Proudly Brew Starbucks program at various locations including corporate campuses, hotels, hospitals, resorts,...

2 days ago by Pamela C

Coffee Chocolate Cake Coffee – Episode #117

coffeecupnews Overview In this episode Jason does a taste test of a coffee flavored like german chocolate cake and a discussion about action figures. Coffee & Description Timothy’s German Chocolate Cake Nice acidity with a lack luster aftertaste. Overall Rating 5.5 out of 10 Aroma: 8 Acidity: 7 Body: 7 Flavor: 5 Aftertaste: 1 Question of the Day? What was your favorite action...

2 days ago by Jason Coffee

Coffee Return of the Uber

jimseven For a while all has been quiet on the Uber front.  We shuffled some stuff around at the roastery, and as part of it we chose not to cut the old Uber into the new worktops as we planned to upgrade – the new Uber having a different (smaller) cutout. The...

2 days ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Cappuccino as conflict

jimseven Competition season often leaves me with an uneasy relationship with a drink I usually find very enjoyable.  I should add that my own view is in no way representative of competition judges, or competitions or anything like that – just a thought rolling around my head. Generally, it seems, we treat...

3 days ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Blueberry Coffee – Episode #116

coffeecupnews Cant View? Click Here Overview In this episode I taste a coffee that is very reminiscent of blueberry muffins and it brings back memories of my childhood.  I changed up the blog layout a bit and I would love you feedback. Coffee & Description Green Mountain Wild Blueberry It tastes just like a blueberry...

4 days ago by Jason Coffee

Coffee In Response to Your Idea – Teach Baristas Sign Language

blogs.starbucks Should Starbucks Baristas be able to say “Thank You” in sign language?  Tell us what you think.  Vote here. (Please visit the site to view this media)      Inspired by your idea: teach your baristas to say thank you in aslposted by prezbucks    

2 weeks ago by sbx_bean

Coffee Who is to blame?

jimseven You drink a nice brewed cup of coffee from a hypothetical farm in El Salvador.  It is incredibly delicious.  The cup is light and juicy, but still very sweet.  There are notes of cherry and caramel and acidity is reminiscent of a crisp apple.  We celebrate this coffee, perhaps we...

2 weeks ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Brooklyn’s Blue Bottle

shotzombies I found myself once again following up on a NY Times post by Oliver Strand, this time visiting Blue Bottle’s newest location in Brooklyn (and first on the East Coast).  The space is huge, nearly 40,000 square feet, and most of it is dedicated to roasting production.  The service area...

2 weeks ago by Mike White

Coffee Coffee Cereal Combos – Episode #114

coffeecupnews In this episode I paired up coffee next to cereal. I got some good results. The Cheerios, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs went really well with the coffee they were combined with. Social

2 weeks ago by Jason Coffee

Coffee Thresholds of deliciousness

jimseven I’ve been thinking more and more about the tiers of tastiness when it comes to not only coffee, but any food or drink.  I think this was probably triggered by the whole aerating thing. Having tasted coffee that had been aerated, as well as coffee brewed with aerated water, against a...

2 weeks ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee SERBC: juggernautism

chemicallyimbalanced what to make of lem butler? the fellow roasts coffee, surfs, spins the vinyl, stars in a puppet show, treats his girlfriend like a real gent and wins every southeast barista competition he deigns to enter. more than 60 points is the margin by which “sexyfoam” three-peated as champion. still as...

Coffee Aida’s Grand Reserve

jimseven I am very much aware that promoting my own products or business on a personal blog very quickly spends any currency of goodwill that I might have built up. There are, however, rare instances where I think it is entirely worth it and this is one of them. There is...

3 weeks ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee When is a coffee shop not a coffee shop?

arizona-coffee At what point does a coffee shop become something other than a coffee shop? This question was posed by Todd Welfelt in the forum recently. You can read his comments here (must be registered). Todd asks this question: This particular place serves coffee, alcohol, food, live music, comedy routines, and gives away...

3 weeks ago by Chris Tingom

Coffee Bunn’s Trifecta

shotzombies Following up on the New York Times article by  Oliver Strand, I spent some time at Cafe Grumpy today playing with Bunn’s new Trifecta.  First discussed on Coffeed just over a year ago, the bullet points listed here by Kevin last October seem to hold true today.  But I didn’t enjoy Bunn’s...

3 weeks ago by Mike White

Coffee Introducing Pour Over Brewing in the Afternoon

blogs.starbucks Hi everyone! This is Colin from the Brewed Coffee team.  I am excited to announce the launch of the Pour Over method to better deliver decaf and bold brewed coffee to our customers in the afternoon.Through My Starbucks Idea (MSI) and direct feedback, we heard your frustrations regarding our brewing...

3 weeks ago by Colin Frolich

Coffee The Dark Side to Auto-Drip Brew

muddydogcoffee.wordpress For a couple weeks now, I’ve been enjoying automatic drip coffee at home.  This is a big change for me, having given up on that method a decade ago.  When we started selling Technivorm last month, I liked that machine so much that I bought one for myself. After a few...

3 weeks ago by muddydogcoffee

Coffee An experiment with grind size

jimseven My experience with the ExtractMojo has so far resulted in one recurring realisation:  I often wasn’t grinding finely enough.  The purpose of this isn’t to rehash the whole underextracted thing.  More a simple experiment in terms of people’s preferences. Accurately communicating grind size remains near impossible.  We can say coarse, very...

3 weeks ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee The naturals debate

jimseven You could say this debate is old news, but somehow it still seems to be rumbling on. In the english speaking online coffee community it often seems a bit like Intelligentsia Vs. Naturals-Lovers, and Geoff Watts great post on the Intelli website kicked off the debate again recently.1  To quote the...

4 weeks ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Tick, tick, tick….. boom.

jimseven The internet is quite talkative at the moment.  The coffee sliver of the internet anyway.  Lots of talk about seasonality, which is a good thing. This does beg the question – how long is coffee good for?  Green coffee I mean – we’re still arguing about roasted coffee’s shelf life and...

2 months ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Aerated coffee

jimseven I’ve another post coming on why I blog, but this reason deserved a post in its own right.  A few days ago Shaun dropped me an e-mail about the Vinturi.  He’d played with it a little bit and thought it was interesting, and thought it might be something that would...

2 months ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee Extreme Makeover : Home Edition!

blog.cafeevoke When we heard that the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was teaming up with Oklahoma City based builders Ideal Homes for an upcoming episode, we knew we needed to do something to help. After a few days of phone calls and talking through what the needs of the volunteers...

2 months ago by Cafe Evoke Catering

Coffee This Is NOT Your Father’s Corn Muffin

muddydogcoffee.wordpress Coupla snow days + unlimited roasted cornmeal = truly inspired corn muffins I have to admit, I’ve been developing this recipe in my head for a couple weeks now.  Our roasted cornmeal has inspired several dishes in our household, like this one, and this one.  But the quest for the killer...

2 months ago by muddydogcoffee

Coffee How much coffee do you drink?

jimseven As I mentioned in a previous post – I get asked this question quite a lot.  So for the month of January I logged every cup of coffee I drank, using a splendid website called Daytum. So – how many coffees? In January I drank 126 cups, so on average a...

2 months ago by James Hoffmann

Coffee coffee tree fetishization update

chemicallyimbalanced while we were out of the country, south carolina apparently experienced sooome cold, piercing even into the house. this is, we suppose, what this blog gets for barside progenitor worship.