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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Your Checklist For Choosing Premium Coffee Beans

First of all, it is important that you are choosing whole, fresh coffee beans before you brew. It is best to purchase coffee beans from a website where they are shipped fresh to you (like my website!), otherwise, you risk them being stale. That being said, here is what you need to know:

• Do not choose coffee beans that look broken or splintered before you purchase them.
• Purchase coffee beans that are fresh or have a roast date on the bag.
• Smell the coffee beans before purchasing, if you can, to make sure that they are flavorful and fresh.
• Start out by enjoying lightly roasted coffee to determine which coffee characteristics and regions you like the best.
• Choose flavored coffees that are made with fresh and natural flavorings.
• Store all coffee beans in an opaque, airtight container in a dry and cool place!

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

How To Start Drinking Your Coffee Black

Many coffee drinkers have a difficult time drinking their cup of Joe black, especially if you have become addicted to cream and sugar. Here are some simple tips to ease into pure black coffee drinking:

• Start out by only adding Splenda to your brew to cut out additional calories and cream.
• After that, consider the many different flavored coffees that use authentic flavorings for a naturally sweet taste. Why not try Hazelnut, Irish Cream, or Almond Toffee Coffee?
• From there, try drinking light roasted coffee with a light body for gentle and authentic characteristics in your brew.
• Last of all, invest in more expensive and rare coffee types, like Kona Coffee and Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. Yes, these coffees are more expensive, but they will give you rare and one-of-a-kind flavors in your cup of Joe. Well worth the money!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

How is Coffee Flavored?

Flavored coffee became popular in the 90s when gourmet coffee was on the rise, and it has come a long way!

Coffee is flavored through a combination of natural and synthetic compounds that are normally sprayed onto freshly roasted coffee beans immediately after the roasting process. There are a number of flavor combinations that can be used, and if natural oils are used to flavor the coffee beans, they can be extracted from cocoa beans, vanilla beans, or even nuts and berries.

The bottom line is that if you are looking for delicious flavored coffee, make sure that it is freshly roasted (like the selection on my website!) and enjoyed right away for the best taste in your cuppa Joe!

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Flavored Coffee is The Ultimate Holiday Treat!

If you are worried about packing on the pounds come Christmas time, then you can get ahead of the game by sampling delicious flavored coffee brews that are free from calories, sugar, and even fat for a decadent holiday treat! Here are the top choices in flavored coffee roasts for the holiday season:

Jack Frost: This is a delicious holiday flavored roast that has flavors of Irish cream, Swiss chocolate, and even peppermint. It will taste like a warm mug of hot chocolate with candy cane undertones!
Mistletoe: This is another luxurious flavored coffee choice that combines chocolate, French Vanilla, and sweet graham crackers flavors.
Blizzard: This is a delicious flavored coffee blend that combines cinnamon spice, eggnog, and Jamaican rum.

There are more traditional flavored coffee choices available, including: Cranberry Cream, Country Christmas, Hot Toddy, and so many more! The perfect Christmas gift for any coffee lover in your life...

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Friday, October 9, 2009

What's So Great About Gourmet Coffee?

Coffee has come a long way, and these days, gourmet flavored coffee is more popular than ever.

If you are looking for a specialty flavored cup of Joe, then you are going to find many choices available to you. Whether it be Almond, Amaretto, or even Blueberry Cream, there are a huge assortment of flavored coffees on the market for your cup of Joe. One thing to keep in mind when you are choosing a gourmet flavored coffee is that it must be produced with 100% Arabica beans to be of the highest quality. There are two different types of coffee beans, which are Robusta and Arabica. Arabica is the more premium bean, and that is what will be used to produce your gourmet flavored coffee.

This type of coffee may be more expensive than your grocery store variety, but you better believe that you will get a complex and bold flavor unlike any other to reward you!

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Is There Such Thing as Root Beer Coffee?

You may have heard of many different flavored coffees on the market, but root beer coffee could be a first! This is a specialty coffee available for a limited time, and it is called Timothy's Spanish Sol.

If you want to try this interesting blend, it is a root beer coffee roast that has undertones of licorice with a mild sweetness. This coffee does have a medium acidity, which means that it won't be too bright on your tongue. This is also coffee that is recommended for hot summer days because it maintains a very nice flavor, even in the heat.

Keep in mind that this is a coffee that is being discontinued, but it is made from the top 1% to 5% of Arabica beans within its coffee growing regions. Make sure that whatever flavor of coffee you choose is made with 100% Arabica beans because that will give you a flavor profile that you can trust.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Flavor Your Coffee At Home

If you love the natural taste of flavored coffee, then you can recreate it yourself at home! All you need to do is purchase freshly roasted coffee, and add natural flavors to your liking.

You can start out by looking online for different natural flavored oils, which will be perfect for flavoring your freshly roasted coffee. You can also use a variety of different ingredients that you may find within your kitchen cabinets, like vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon extract, cocoa, or cinnamon. You may even want to squeeze fresh fruit juice from apples, oranges, or limes directly onto your freshly roasted coffee beans to give them a fruity and slightly bitter taste.

Using everyday ingredients that you can find around your house is an easy way to flavor your freshly roasted coffee, and if you do buy your flavored coffee from an online retailer, make sure that they use natural oils to flavor that are free from preservatives or additives. This is the best way to enjoy a delicious flavor in your coffee without any additional calories, fat, or sugar!

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Friday, July 24, 2009

How Can You Choose the Best Flavored Coffee?

Flavored coffee has become more and more popular, starting the 70s in the US, and then spreading to Europe and the rest of the world. Originally, many different areas of the world were enjoying flavored coffee hundreds of years ago, including the South Americans, who used cinnamon, and the Africans, who used citrus. Nowadays, you can enjoy so many different varieties of flavored coffee, including Baked Alaska, Apricot Cream, and Almond Toffee found on my website!

Other than that, when you are buying flavored coffee, what you need to consider is to make sure that your roaster is still using high quality beans and not just hoping to disguise lower quality beans within the flavoring process. Also, ensure that they are using organic and natural oils to flavor the beans, which will give them the purest taste possible, as well as make them calorie and fat free. Many Java connoisseurs do frown upon flavored coffee, but the truth of the matter is that it is more popular than ever with higher quality processing. I myself am not one to judge, and I am all about having a cup of Banana Hazelnut Coffee to start my day!

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

How Can You Find the Best Flavor in Your Coffee Beans?

When you are looking to purchase delicious and freshly roasted coffee beans, then not just any bean will do. You need to put some thought into the growth process of the bean itself so that you can trust the final product in your cup of Joe. First, consider the fact that premium coffee beans are grown and cultivated in higher altitude climates with regular temperatures, and they grow in a cherry on the plant that is then opened to reveal normally two coffee beans inside. If the coffee beans inside the cherry are completely round, then those are peaberries, which is a specific type of specialty coffee in demand. It is best to look for Fair Trade and Organic coffees because you can trust that during cultivation of the plants there were no pesticides used and crop rotation was also in effect to give the plant more nutrients to be harvested.

If you want the best of the best in flavored coffees, then know that they are created by adding natural and organic oils at the ratio of 1/2 ounce per pound of beans so that they are still calorie and fat free because of the natural flavorings. Make sure that the flavored coffee beans that you are buying have natural and organic flavors added so that you are not drinking any coffee that has harsh chemical additives.

With these tips, you will have an easy time finding the most premium coffee beans for an excellent cup of Joe!

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

How Much Coffee Trivia Do You Know?


I don't think that this is exactly a Jeopardy category yet, but coffee trivia is fun to look at and even more fun to know, especially if you want to strike up a conversation when you are waiting in line at a coffee house. So try this on for size. Did you know?

  • Brazil is the leading coffee producer with almost 4 billion coffee trees.
  • Coffee beans are hard when they are cultivated at a higher altitude of over 5000 feet.
  • Flavored coffee became popular only in the US in the 1970s and then spread worldwide.
  • Coffee was said to be attributed to the Arabs, which is why the Europeans called it "Arabian Wine".
  • Bach wrote a coffee cantata in the 1700s.
  • Café au lait was invented in France by a physicist for medicinal purposes in the 1600s.
  • The first espresso machine was developed in France in the early 1800s.
  • Most Americans were using a manual coffee grinder in their homes by the 1850s.
  • In the Civil War, coffee was one of the main rations of the soldiers.

So with this knowledge up your sleeve, you will be sure to impress any coffee lover you know, or just have a smug expression on your face when you sip your latte!

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