Posted in Blends, New Coffee, road coffee, tagged starbucks, Pike Place Blend, wall street journal on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
I was catching up on my pile of this week’s Wall Street Journal today, and saw an article about customer reception to Starbuck’s new Pike Place Blend. I’d include a link to the online version, but it’s subscriber-only. Suffice it to say that many regular SBUX customers are unhappy with the new brew, [...]
Posted in Blends, road coffee, tagged seattle, starbucks, Pike Place Blend, starbucks logo on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This week I spent a couple days in Seattle, a place where there are probably more coffee shops per capita than anywhere else in the world, including Finland. And some of them are, in fact, very VERY good.
Starbucks is not usually one I would include in that category. But after reading about their “historic” new [...]
Posted in Blends, Local Coffee of the Week, Loco for Locavores, Organic, tagged local, Local Coffee of the Week, locavore, Old North State, Organic on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
In 1629, King Charles I “erected into a province,” all the land from Albemarle Sound on the north to the St. John’s River on the south, and called it Carolina. The word Carolina is from Carolus, the Latin form of Charles (such vanity!). When Carolina was divided in 1710, the southern part was called South [...]
Posted in Blends, Kona, rants, tagged Kona, Kona Coffee Farmers Association, 100% Kona, real Kona, Smith Farms on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Robert Badgett’s blog has a post today from the head of the Kona Coffee Farmers’ Association (KCFA) - the good guys - about some tough talk by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to get them to cease and desist their educational campaign about Kona blends. I laughed out loud at the DoA’s sentiment that [...]
Posted in Blends, tagged decaf, decaffeinated, vienna blend on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I just added a new decaffeinated blend to the web site, our Vienna Blend decaf. I’ve done this one for a few years now, I’m just now getting around to adding it to the inventory. This is my all-purpose decaf that I use myself when I want a night time coffee. I like it because [...]
Posted in Blends, marketing, tagged Blends, local coffee on January 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
OK, North Carolinians… I want to make a new blend, one that locals will realize is completely unique to the region. I want to start with a name… and I need suggestions! Once we come up with a name, the flavor profile will suggest itself and I’ll craft the blend. Whoever comes up with the [...]
