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About Coffee

Coffee brewing, buying, and home roasting our most wonderful beverage

Your own, customizable website for our most wonderful beverage. Share your knowledge, expertise, tips, photos, videos, news, and stories. For consumers, retailers, roasters, growers, or anyone interested in coffee.

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Mocha Frapp
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Coffee Detective
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1oz Black
Sean
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Sean Sean added the blog post 'My entry into CoffeeCrew's coffee writing contest.' May 29

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New technique for French Press.

New technique for French Press.
Added Nov. 16, 2008 by Sean.

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Music Favorites

Share the music you like with great coffee here!

INeedCoffee.com

Decaffeinated Coffee Comics

Decaffeinated Coffee is a comic strip by Chuck Harrison.


The Longest Coffee Roast Ever?

Slow roasted coffee just took on a new meaning.


Espresso Twists in Naples, Italy

In Naples an excellent cup of coffee can be found twice on every block. If you ask for coffee and want something that comes in a cup larger than the length of your thumb, Neapolitans either look confused or smirk. For them, coffee is caffe and caffe everywhere else in the world is called espresso.


The Quick Economics of Home Roasting Coffee

Let me go through the numbers and show you how much money you could save by home roasting your own coffee.


Meeting Up With The Green Coffee Buying Club

Coffee cooperatives are groups that pool their money together to buy sizes of unroasted coffee that are usually only available to commercial roasters.


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Welcome to About Coffee

What is this social network, About Coffee?

Badgett's Coffee eJournal started as an email newsletter in May 2000 and later morphed into a website, www.aboutcoffee.net. It contains articles and news, well, about coffee.

This website is the next generation. It has the features of YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, newsgroup, MyYahoo, and iGoogle. You can customize the My Page tab above with widgets and gadgets from Microsoft, Google, and others. You can send email to other members but all members' email addresses remain confidential.

You can upload photos, videos and music from your cell or computer, or from Flickr, Google, or YouTube.

You can post comments and questions to the Forum or create a Group of your own for sharing with all or a few. Easy!

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Blog Posts

My entry into CoffeeCrew's coffee writing contest.

My affair with coffee started in university - Amaretto Almond before first class. Started buying bulk beans from supermarkets and brewing at home. I enjoyed the wine-like experience of comparing different types. Then Starbucks, of all places, got me off flavoured beans and on the road to single origins. The first S'bucks I visited was in Chicago's Loop. I was vacationing from the Canadian Arctic, where I was living and working, and started each morning with an exotic sounding cup from Starbucks…

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Posted by Sean on May 29th, 2009 at 1:50pm — No Comments (Add)

The value of customer feedback?

A new cafe (the 1st La Cimbali and Mazer machines in my city of 18,000) opened down the street. I went there on opening day to celebrate with the proprietor and enjoy a great coffee. Results? Tremendous ambiance and furniture/space, but the coffee was off. I think either the boiler temp ran too high (they're only pulling 5 or 6 shots an hour) or the staff hadn't gotten the hang of milk frothing (I ordered a latte) and cooked the milk. When asked what I thought, I was honest, thinking they'd appr…

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Posted by Sean on February 19th, 2008 at 1:46am — No Comments (Add)

Coffee or Terror?

I found this pretty interesting. The majority shareholder in Caribou coffee makes investments in a manner consistent with the body of Islamic principles known as Shari'ah and consequently I am in the question as to whether or not Caribou operates in a manner with Shari'ah principles. Furthermore, Caribou Coffee encountered a lot of negative publicity back in 2002. In an article that was posted on politicalusa.com, it was asserted that Caribou Coffee was tied to the Muslim brotherhood, the Muslim…

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Posted by Icerat on January 11th, 2008 at 5:35pm — No Comments (Add)

Happy New Year

Aloha everyone,

Happy New Year to one and all. Hawaii is the last state in the US to move into 2008 so I thought I would post this now. It appears that we may have a rainy day and it will perhaps limit the fireworks. In Hawaii individual fireworks displays are legal, with a $25 permit.

We at Princess Radha Farm hope that you all have a Happy New Year and are prosperous at whatever your interests may be.

Mahalo,

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This is a great feed from a great web site http://www.ineedcoffee.com!

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Boresha Coffee
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Home Roaster
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Created by Sheridan Adams

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Coffee Shop Managers
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Created by Robert Badgett

Forum

Mocha Frapp

now brewing..

Started by Mocha Frapp Feb 24

Our beans are cultivated in the rich soils of small farms located in the fertile, high mountain regions and moist lake areas of Africa. The coffees from this region are complex and have intense ber... Read More »

Gracie

Boresha..

Started by Gracie Feb 23

check this out.. Fresh coffee beans Coffee services Read More »

Sean

Grind & extraction time in French Press 3 Replies

Started by Sean. Last reply by Konapage Jan. 22, 2008.

Found an interesting link that furthers the 'controversy' on coarseness and steep time in the french press. My rule of thumb has always been a course grind and 4 min steep. Not so says Tom at S.M.'s. Read More »

 
 

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Coffee helps brain, liver to function better

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:48:54 GMT The latest studies by German researchers have shown positive effects of coffee on human health, saying it improves functions of liver and brain. The studies run by Germany's Green Cross points out that coffee accelerates digestion, and prevents age-related diabetes, chronic liver disease and replacement of liver tissue by fibrous scar tissue. Drinking at least

Philips to become a global leader in coffee appliances by acquiring Saeco - a leader in espresso machines

      (27/07/09 08:20 CET) July 27, 2009     * Acquisition allows Philips to expand in the high-growth, high-margin espresso machine market with a strong range of products     * Acquisition of Saeco by Philips has been closed Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) announced today that it has closed the acquisition of Saeco International Group S.p.A. of

Starbucks opens its first 'un-Starbucks' store, 15th Ave Coffee & Tea

At 6:00 am on Friday, the doors opened to Starbucks first “un-Starbucks” store on Capitol Hill in Seattle. It’s called 15th Ave Coffee & Tea and upon first glance, you would never know it was a Starbucks. There isn’t a green siren logo to be found anywhere. The only thing giving away the true identity of the corporate owner are the words “inspired by Starbucks” strategically placed around the

Republic of the Philippines eyes to regain world coffee market dominance

Massive coffee replanting launched The Philippine Coffee Board will begin massive replanting of former coffee plantations with new trees and developing new ones to ensure that the country will regain its dominance of  the world coffee market at the soonest time possible. To ensure the undisrupted tree planting, the board has also mobilized local government units in various coffee growing areas

Idle thoughts... from an idle mind

Did you know?
Costa Rica is the only country in the world which has issued an executive order banning the production of any variety of coffee other than Arabica. This standard is made possible by the expertise, experience and favorable physical conditions found in this remarkable land.
I'm going to Costa Rica soon!

Computers and coffee roasting do NOT mix. How many burnt batches of coffee before I follow that rule?

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