What happens when Americano meets soda? Americola of course. I invented the name, I don’t think anyone else is dumb enough to try this – or at least admit they did. My idea was that if iced coffee is great, carbonation could only make it better! I started with 4 shots of espresso, iced it, [...]

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For Christmas my wife got me a “coffee gift” as she likes to call them. I’ve been wanting to play with a vacuum or “syphon” pot for years but my collection of brewing and roasting equipment (and supplies) has been “sufficient” (well probably). Hobbyists never can never have enough right? There are quite a few [...]

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Don’t try this at home.  Wait, TRY this at home! Often I get assigned “coffee duty“. This often happens when we have people coming over, we host a party, or bring coffee to an event. I often find myself getting out my two glass airpots and brewing coffee into the carafes. Then I carefully pour [...]

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About 3 weeks ago my wife and I started noticing an odd rubbery metallic taste/smell to my espresso drinks. We had some immediate suspicions. The first was the cup itself. We had just picked up some new fun mugs at IKEA in Chicago and figured the nasty smell came from the cup. We swapped out [...]

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If you are a coffee lover like me you probably don’t like the fact that the popularity of coffee has more to do with product branding than the experience of the drink (or the quality of the bean or roasting). Since I’m always thinking of business opportunities on the web (in a grand delusion to [...]

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McDonalds is really wanting to get in on the coffee game. How do I know? All the local stores are doing “Free Lattes” all day on Friday. Free? Can you imagine if your local Starbucks had free Lattes? The police would have to direct traffic in front of the stores. We stopped to see if [...]

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I like a lot of your products! I want to like your coffee. Comes in fun cans Less than $8/lb average Quite a few varieties Quick and easy (minutes from home). It just seems stale to me. I’ve tried a few cans over the last year. The aroma when opening a coffee container says a [...]

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I’ve had a lot of practice at this, and I’m still not very good at it. Is it the quality of the foam or pouring technique issue? We had our friends Brian and Angela over this Sunday and I made a couple of lattes. One was “abstract art”, the other a “scorpion” (so they were [...]

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This week I was asked twice – how can I make a good espresso based drink without spending a thousand dollars. Well… There is the local coffee shop, but they’ll take you for $3 everytime. So I run over to CoffeeGeek to see what is new in the machines that are cheaper than Silvia (what [...]

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We knew this all along. Here is a study on the antioxidant levels in coffee with some pretty interesting information. Maybe some of those people that gave up coffee for teas (because of the high level antioxidants) should reconsider. I need a “coffee is good for you” page.

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