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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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Sean Sean added the blog post 'The value of customer feedback?' Feb 19
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Sean Sean replied to the discussion Grind & extraction time in French Press Jan 22
Konapage Konapage replied to the discussion Grind & extraction time in French Press Jan 22

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Starbucks vs. Dunkin'

Starbucks vs. Dunkin'
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INeedCoffee.com

Coffee Internship on Kona Farm

I recently gave a farm tour for a workshop about coffee farming. The class was attended by several Kona coffee farmers, some with quite a bit of farming experience. They didn't believe me when I said I do all the work myself and they unanimously decided that I need some full-time help.

Human Elephant Conflict Inside Coffee Forests

Due to timber logging and rampant poaching for ivory, the forest itself is in trouble. The elephant range has become more and more fragmented. Elephants are no longer safe because there is a prize on the elephants head.

Ode to a Coffee Card

Through the sly smirk of a pierced lip it appears. A challenge offered; a gauntlet thrown.

Mechanical Harvesting on a Coffee Farm

Coffee has now been mechanically harvested for over 20 years, and while there are a few different brands of machines they are all basically the same design with the same components.

Best In Show - Where is the Remote?

Where is the remote?

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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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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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Posted by Konapage on December 31st, 2007 at 12:16pm — 1 Comment (Add)

About Coffee Welcomes I Need Coffee's RSS feed

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

Posted by Icerat on December 26th, 2007 at 2:21pm — No Comments (Add)

Just added two videos

One of goals before the end of the year was to clear my hard drive video camera to make room for some more clips in 2008. I came across some clips that were taken in Mexico and Boston this year. Could not resist in putting these together for the two videos I just posted.

In any event Happy New Year! With everyone's help next year I can see 25,000 new sign ups to participant in About Coffee. Just keep on inviting your family, friends, business associates, competitors, contacts in your ad…

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Posted by Icerat on December 26th, 2007 at 2:03pm — No Comments (Add)

Groups

Home Roaster
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Origin Coffees
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Forum

Sean

Grind & extraction time in French Press 3 Replies

Started by Sean. Last reply by Konapage Jan 22.

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 »

1oz Black

Hand grinding for espresso 3 Replies

Started by 1oz Black. Last reply by sosulhae Jan 6.

Anyone out there a fan of grinding by hand? Read More »

Konapage

Grower and Farmers Discussion 9 Replies

Started by Konapage. Last reply by Jorge Cutié Dec. 5, 2007.

Aloha, At the request of our host, Mr. Badgett, I am offering this discussion area for growers and farmers. This is not to imply that I have much to teach but actually much more to learn. I began... Read More »

 
 

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Badgett's Coffee eJournal

How Starbucks uses psychological triggers

Coffee Health Risks

Coffee Health Risks: For the moderate drinker, coffee is safe says Harvard Women’s Health Watch ( Boston , MA ) Despite 20 years of reassuring research, many people still avoid caffeinated coffee because they worry about its health effects. However, current research reveals that in moderation—a few cups a day—coffee is a safe beverage that may even offer some health benefits. The September issue

WORKSHOP - SMALL SCALE ON-FARM PROCESSING

Saturday, July 5th, from 1pm - 3:30pm, CTAHR meeting Room in Kainaliu, followed by optional tour to Bob Nelson's processing operation (across the road) A presentation on how to take your coffee cherry through to parchment, to green bean, and even to roast and pack yourselves. This workshop is specifically for small farms, with examples of scaled down operations and equipment that are affordable,

Americans reassess spending habits

Coffee runs and cab rides given up in tight times BY CANDICE CHOI • ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 22, 2008 The "latte effect" of the go-go years had consumers spending $4 a day on coffee. Now the downturn is forcing them to rethink the wisdom of such habits. Advertisement As inflation squeezes budgets, middle-class Americans are taking fresh stock of their spending in search of ways to save a nickel

Rats get a whiff of how coffee stirs the brain

Leigh Dayton and Stephanie Dalzell | June 20, 2008 COFFEE-SNIFFING rats have confirmed what caffeine addicts suspect - the mere whiff of a good morning brew gets the brain up and going. Scientists claim the energising aroma kick-starts genes that reverse the effects of sleep-deprivation. "These results (help) explain why so many people use coffee for staying up all night," claim researchers

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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