Caribou Coffee recently announced that a national consumer magazine has named it the top gourmet coffee in its 2009 national ranking of coffees. Overall, Caribou Coffee ranked second for all coffees sold at the retail level. To celebrate, the company will offer $1 bakery items to all Ohio customers who purchase a large beverage at [...]

De La Paz Coffee is located in San Francisco, Calif., and specializes in small batch coffee roasting focused on freshness and great tasting coffee. Call me a sucker for packaging, but I already have my eye on Bella Blend. Although it is specially roasted for the  Velo Bellas, an international women’s bicycle racing team, this medium [...]

Flores is an island 200 miles east of Bali that features numerous volcanoes, which produce ashes that create soil perfect for coffee to thrive in. In 2005, the Indonesian Coffee & Cocoa Research Institute set out to work with small farmer groups to improve coffee quality and shorten the marketing chain from farmer to supplier. The [...]

Times are tough, but before you give up your daily cup(s) of joe, there are some ways to save. First, buy a gold filter for your machine. They are inexpensive, long lasting and reduce waste–turns out the ultimate “green” filter is gold. Second, keep your machinery clean, which will help ensure you get the most [...]

My husband recently started a new job, and one morning during his first week, he called to tell me the office has a Keurig coffee maker, which I have been secretly coveting for months. Apparently at his office they have the B3000 Keurig Brewing System, which features use of K-Cup® with automatic ejection and storage; direct line [...]

If you were always told that nothing good is ever free, think again. Check this out–complimentary (yep, FREE) holiday coffee tastings at your local Peet’s. Saturday December 13, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Free tastings of three coffees featured in Peet’s Holiday Coffee Gifts: Holiday Blend, Major Dickason’s Blend® and Arabian Mocha Java. Saturday December 20, 11:00 [...]

Chemical engineers at the University of Nevada say they’ve made a high quality biodiesel from coffee grounds. The researchers estimate their process could produce about 340 million gallons of biodiesel from coffee world wide, and they could make about $8 million in profits just from Starbuck’s coffee grounds. Here’s the full story from the University [...]

In light of the economic crisis and the fact that three local coffee shops have shut their doors in the past year, I thought I’d give a huge shout out to some local peeps that are hanging on, and in the process, brewing up some fine java in Sacramento, Calif. Capitol Garage Coffee Co. Butch N Nellie’s [...]

I’ve always known that Crate & Barrel had great furniture and kitchen gadgets, so it only makes sense that they would also have some fun coffee gadgets and containers. For instance, these Irish Coffee glasses for $2.95 each are sure to warm the spirits this season (the fact that they are also dishwasher and microwave [...]

By Grace Chen The one-cup coffee maker has many benefits. Perhaps you are the only coffee drinker in your house, and you are tired of pouring good coffee down the drain because you made too much. Maybe you enjoy gourmet coffee, but do not have the time or inclination to grind beans for a full [...]