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Are the Coffee Beans Really Fresh II?
Almost all of the coffee sold in cafes and stores is old. It is not uncommon for coffee bags to sit in tropical warehouses for months or even years, You can’t tell old coffee from fresh coffee by...
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Blend Your Own Personal Coffee
If you walk into any high end tea shop they will create a personal tea blend just for you. However, it is almost impossible to get a coffee roaster to create a personal roast just for you. However, you...
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Why You Can’t Get a Good Cup of Coffee on an Airplane
Everyone knows that airplane coffee tastes bad, but few people ever ask why. Here are the reasons. Water You know that coffee is 98% water. At home you use high quality filtered water or bottled water...
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Where Did My Kona Coffee Come From?
When we brew a cup of Kona coffee it is the last step in a tale of theft, intrigue, and sex. All Arabica coffees originated from trees in Ethiopia. There are hundreds of varieties of coffee trees...
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Grinding Changes Coffee Flavor
Brewing coffee is about extracting flavor from the beans. Extract too much and the coffee is bitter and acidic, extract too little and the coffee is thin and sour. Coffee extraction is a function of...
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Please Freeze Our Coffee Beans
For a number of years there has been a war among coffee gurus over the best way to store roasted coffee. There are pro-freezer proponents, pro- refrigerator proponents and dark cabinet proponents. The...
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Coffee Research – Fact or Fake?
For the past several years, the news has been filled with reports about the health benefits of coffee. Personally, we are elated that we are selling a healthy drink However, we wonder how many of these...
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What’s on Your Holiday List?
It is that time of the year when we try to find gifts that are useful and appreciated. You may have noticed that the older our family and friends get the harder it is to find good gifts. There is a...
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Coffee Makes You Better in Groups
There have been a lot of scientific and pseudo-scientific articles in the last ten years about the effect of coffee on our bodies. If you believe all of the articles coffee is only next to the fountain...
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Where Have Your Coffee Beans Been?
When we buy food products in developed countries we assume that the food is safe to eat. However, almost all coffee comes from third world counties where there is no FDA and no Safe Food Practices...
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Bad Grinder, Bad Coffee
Once in a while, we receive complaints that our coffee has changed and now tastes bad. Since both Laura and I cup every roast for consistency and quality before we bag the beans, we know that it...
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Is Bitter Coffee a Medical Alert?
Every once in a while the coffee that we love tastes bad. It may be the coffee or maybe not. One possibility is what we call dirty mouth syndrome. Just brush your teeth, your coffee is going to taste...
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Test Tube Coffee
Two food scientists in Oregon have announced that they have created a new beverage, Atomo, which tastes like coffee but isn’t bitter or acidic. It will be released in 2020. The scientists refuse to say...
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Coffee Makes Me HAPPY
It is 6 am we have get up and go to work. We feel sleepy, unhappy and some of us, like me, feel grouchy. So the first stop is the coffee brewer for a cup of great coffee. A few minutes later the world...
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Is Your Kona Coffee Really from Kona?
A dark joke in Kona for years has been that Kona grows 3 million pounds of coffee each year while 5 million pounds of Kona Coffee is sold. Now a new class action lawsuit claims it isn’t 5 million,...
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Is Your Kona Coffee Really from Kona?
A dark joke in Kona for years has been that Kona grows 3 million pounds of coffee each year while 5 million pounds of Kona Coffee is sold. Now a new class action lawsuit claims it isn’t 5 million, it...
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Please Freeze Our Coffee Beans
For a number of years there has been a war among coffee gurus over the best way to store roasted coffee. There are pro-freezer proponents, pro- refrigerator proponents and dark cabinet proponents. The...
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Drip or Immersion?
All coffee brewing can be put into one of two categories, drip brewing or immersion brewing. Drip brewing includes automatic brewers, pod and capsule brewers, Aeropress, espresso, moka pot, percolator...
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Cold Brewed or Cold Drip Coffee?
Two methods of brewing coffee cold have become popular. One method Cold Brewed Coffee uses an immersion style of brewing and the other Cold Drip Coffee uses a slow drip brewing system. Cold Brew Coffee...
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Does Your Coffee Cup Color Change the Taste?
Now that Hula Daddy has logo’d white espresso cups, almond coffee mugs and multicolored travel mugs you are faced with an intense moment of critical decision making. There you are sheltering in place...
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