 Image by Karl O’Brien via Flickr Most people assume, once they look into it, that Fair Trade coffee is a good thing because it guarantees a base level price to coffee growers – and a price that is typically above the base market level. Sounds great, right? And for the most part, it is. But there is [...]  Image via Wikipedia One of the great mysteries of coffee are the myriad of chemical reactions that occur inside the bean as coffee is roasted. Every coffee is different because they start with different bioflavinoids, esters and other complex organic compounds within the bean. But roasting then changes all these compounds at different levels. In fact, [...]  Image via Wikipedia It’s all over the news (well the coffee news) that Starbucks is getting set to launch instant coffee on March 3rd. The new coffee, called Via for no reason that can possibly make sense, is, however, not exactly the same thing as America’s Folgers or Europe’s Nescafe. Starbucks claims that it has spent [...]  Image via Wikipedia Nestor Osorio, Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, i s concerned that coffee production this year is not going to meet demand – by about 480 million kilos or pretty close to one billion pounds. That led me to an interesting question. How much coffee do we actually drink globally? It turns out [...]  Image via Wikipedia Well, some people are referring to the battle starting up between Starbucks – with its new ‘pairings’ of a latte or tall coffee plus some form of pastry item (surely not one that is selling poorly that it is trying to offload?) for $3.95 – and Caribou Coffee with a temporary price cut [...]  Image via Wikipedia After many years of coffee drinking, coffee brewing and now, coffee roasting and coffee geekery, I have come up with one simple rule for making better coffee. This rule is based on the observation that people enjoy a single really good, rich, tasty cup of coffee far more than two cups of any [...]  Image via Wikipedia The news is a-buzz. Consumer Reports has picked the best ground coffee and it isn’t (shock) Starbucks!!!!! While it is somewhat interesting that a properly conducted taste test did pick out a ground coffee winner, let’s all take a deep breath and a step back. First off, the test looked only at 100% Columbian. [...]  CNET’s crave column is reporting that a Korean designer, Jeon Hwan Ju, has developed a printer concept – presumably for computers – that uses cofee grounds or plain coffee as the ink. Right now, the model is rather manual – you feed the paper and move the print head by hand – but still – [...] |
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