When dreaming of a frozen, blended coffee drink, many folks conjure images of the famous Starbucks' Frappuccinos: Creamy, icy concoctions that mimic milkshakes, but icier and packed with caffeine. But those well-loved Frapps aren't the only cool-kids on the java block. The much smaller Dutch Bros drive-thru coffee chain knows a thing or two about coffee lovers and what they crave, including its Blended Freeze drinks, the toe-to-toe competitors with Starbucks Frappuccinos.
Last week, I was making my morning coffee-you know, the complicated order I'm too embarrassed to say out loud at coffee shops-when I noticed the pile of used grounds in my filter. For years, I'd been tossing these straight into the trash without a second thought. But then I remembered something my grandmother wrote in one of her letters years ago: "The garden teaches us that nothing is truly waste."
The Vietnamese government, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the have combined for a $102.4 million investment designed to protect forests and boost rural incomes in Vietnam's coffee lands. The initiative, known as RECAF, involves blended financing, including a $32.4 million IFAD loan, a $35 million GCF grant and $35 million in domestic co-financing, according to IFAD, an agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating rural poverty.
If you're a coffee drinker, then you know how much fun it can be to venture to one of your favorite coffee shops to order a special coffee beverage you can't make at home. Unfortunately, that's an expensive habit to keep up every day, which is why it's nice to have the ingredients you need to make flavorful coffee at home.
On a six-block walk I pass at least a half dozen, each with their own vibe: one focused on chai, another inside a yoga studio, a Starbucks that's surprisingly busy for late afternoon downtown. I passed them all up to get to one shop in particular, where a barista named Jarvis would address me by name and make me a thoroughly decent latte with rose-flavored syrup - nothing out of the ordinary in Seattle.
Americans are drinking more coffee than they have in decades. But fewer of them are getting it from Starbucks. The company that revolutionized the United States' coffee culture remains America's biggest player, with nearly 17,000 U.S. stores and plans to open hundreds more. But it's facing unprecedented competition, which will make it harder to win back the customers it already lost.
On the bar, a Slayer Steam EP espresso machine is flanked by three Mahlkönig espresso grinders, while a Mahlkönig EK43 handles coffee for Curtis batch brews and a manual pourover bar featuring multiple NextLevel Pulsar brewers. "I wanted something that's user-friendly for the baristas while still having a high level of versatility and cup quality," Naysayer Coffee Co-Founder Chris Vecera told Daily Coffee News. "We like to nerd out and go down the rabbit hole on the pourover recipes."
For his birthday in October, I surprised him with the Bodum 12-Cup Coffee Maker - and as a coffee lover, he couldn't have been happier. As someone who loves cute kitchen decor, I was thrilled, too. But there was one unexpected downside: A light-colored coffee maker shows everything. And pretty quickly, I realized that my usual cleaning methods weren't cutting it.
We're all stuck in this constant fight of trying to add more protein to our diets. And more often than not, it's a losing battle. We stuff chicken breasts and cups of Greek yogurt galore into our meals, only to come up short on our goal once again. So what do we do? We resort to getting creative with our protein intake.
"While that project led to a lot of good iteration on our systems, it ultimately proved difficult with some technical limitations, and we've since moved in a different direction," 321 Coffee Co-Founder Michael Evans told Daily Coffee News. "In the past year, we've been focusing on making our roastery more accessible with new equipment, such as a green coffee system to minimize the movement of heavy burlap bags of coffee around our space."
At the center of the physical space - a fomer Café Cerés location near Minnehaha Falls - stands a gold-tiled structural pillar that the owners want to turn into a literal pillar of the community. Customers snap Polaroids, tack them to the pillar and add handwritten notes about where they're from or their hopes for the future. The goal is to eventually cover the entire surface.
Going out for coffee every day can be pricey, which is why we usually stick to making our own coffee at home. That's easy to do if you like simple, black coffee, but it can be trickier to pull it off if you like more flavor in your cup. You could spend hours trying to learn how to make viral TikTok coffee drinks, or you could just snag yourself a good creamer from the grocery store for instant flavor and creaminess in your cup.
The dripper, which officially launched at last weekend's World of Coffee Dubai trade show, is sold under the Precise brand and was developed by UAE champion barista Mariam Erin. Designed around what Brewing Gadgets calls "wet blending," the Binocular Dripper uses two tall, narrow brew cones, each at a 30-degree angle. Each side can be brewed independently with different coffees, doses and pour patterns, with the combined brew collected in the included server.
A small, stingless bee may be able to raise coffee yields while fitting into real-world pest control programs, according to a new study from Brazil. In a field study on full-sun arabica farms, researchers reported a 67% higher fruit yield on coffee branches closer to colonies of the native stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis, compared with branches farther away. The study was recently published in Frontiers in Bee Science.
Great Value may be Walmart's generic brand, but its Chocolate Caramel creamer delivered such luscious texture and rich, concentrated flavor that the product sits on-par with other popular (often costlier) coffee creamer brands like Califia Farms and International Delight. On the Walmart website, a 32-fluid-ounce bottle currently costs $2.76. Meanwhile, name-brand competitors like Chobani's Caramel Macchiato-Flavored Creamer run for $6.24, and Starbucks' Caramel-Flavored Creamer costs $4.98 for a comparatively smaller 28-fluid-ounce bottle.
Despite the fact that I do it every day, I don't really like grinding coffee. It's loud, it's messy, and even though it's absolutely just as important as whatever brewing ritual I choose to engage in on any particular morning, I find the whole rigmarole a little annoying. Unfortunately for me, a well-measured, freshly ground dose of beans is the difference between something delicious and something that tastes like airplane coffee.
Pack mules aren't something you might immediately associate with the state of Idaho, but the area actually has a strong history with pack trains, which were often utilized to bring supplies to rural mountainous areas. In fact, the Forest Service still uses mules to access Idaho's backcountry today. There's even a very successful local coffee company named after the hardworking animals - and it wouldn't have even gotten its start without them.
Café Bustelo is a longstanding favorite in the Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican communities as its original brew's exceedingly strong, espresso-style dark roast caters beautifully to Latino coffee tastes. However, over its nearly century-long lifespan to date, Café Bustelo has come to encompass a diverse array of different roasts that are now a staple in households nationwide. Tasting Table tried and ranked 7 Café Bustelo ground coffee varieties based on uniqueness and flavor, and the best Café Bustelo variety, according to our taste test, is the medium roast.
... Kauai Coffee is a fully integrated premium specialty coffee company. What that means is that we grow the coffee and put it all the way to the bag, all here on the island of Kauai. To do that, we have about 4 million coffee trees, and we farm about 3,000 acres. We harvest anywhere from 10 to 12 million pounds of cherry coffee, which needs to be processed into about a million to 2 million pounds of green coffee.
Text description provided by the architects. An Mien is a coffee brand built on pride in the authentic values of quality coffee, closely associated with the image of the roasting workshopwhere aroma, heat, and the rhythm of industrial operations coexist. The space is conceived as an extension of this spirit, where the act of enjoying coffee is framed through materiality, light, and emotion.
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A stylish new cycling-themed coffee shop is now open at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Menlo Park. Bici Coffee began its soft opening Jan. 5, and is serving up coffee and espresso drinks, an array of pastries sourced from Manresa Bread, plus fresh juices, salads and sandwiches. You'll find it through a separate door to the right of the main hotel entrance.
Regardless of whether you're already planning the next date in your head or plan on never calling her again, brewing a cup of coffee is one of those small gestures of kindness you should extend to everyone. (If I have to make the trek back home in last night's dress, the least you can do is offer me a cup of joe.) Bonus points if you have a dedicated, well-honed coffee routine.
Nutpods is a popular brand of non-dairy coffee creamer that can be found in most major grocery stores. The brand has a variety of flavors available, and I decided to grab as many as I could for a taste test. To taste the creamers, I first sipped each of them on its own. I wanted to get a sense of the flavor completely on its own.
Iced coffee is a morning must for most people. However, those regular trips to Starbucks, your favorite local coffee shop, or even making it from pricey beans at home may not be doing your wallet any favors. Luckily, you don't have to cut iced coffee out of your life cold turkey to save a couple of bucks; you can just switch to a thriftier and more convenient alternative: instant coffee.
