No, this isn’t another blog extolling the physical and mental virtues of drinking coffee. This is about being a coffee snob and getting the most out of your coffee.
First off, if you don’t have a grinder, get one. You can get them for less than 20 bucks, and when you have freshly ground coffee that was recently roasted, it’s like entering a whole new world. If you haven’t done that yet, the coffee that you already know and love is probably sour and stale by comparison, and you don’t even realize it.
If you’re unfamiliar, Trump recently signed an executive order which temporarily banned travel for 7 countries, and there have been riots. Match Made Coffee is going to make no statement one way or the other on this political event, or any other for that matter. But, it seems like lots of other companies are trying to profit over these big headlines. This is a relatively new thing with the Internet and social media being so big now, so will their stances ultimately come back to bite them? —
In a world riddled with people wanting to provide “scientific” answers for everything, the American Psychiatric Association and their de-facto mental illness manual “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” (also known as DSM-5, in its current edition) has now officially listed Caffeine Use Disorder for mental health professionals…
The survey company Survey Monkey recently ran a rather large survey that found 45% of all millennials spend more money on coffee than they do on retirement. This was especially true of females in the 18-34 year old demographic.
Coffee- for some people it’s a daily necessity, and to others it’s something they’d rather stay away from. Recently, a Stanford released the findings of studies showing that those in the coffee drinking category were WAY better off.
So, what’s going on here? Did somebody find a genie and make an awesome wish? Probably.
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There is no more sure sign that the concept of craft coffee is taking off than one of the world’s largest hard alcohols deciding to make a plunge into the other way to get people buzzed: caffeine.
Jack Daniel’s, makers of the in/famous Tennessee whiskey recently launched their coffee beans in conjunction with a craft coffee roaster. They’ve officially gone full circle- you can drink yourself into oblivion the night before, and then when you regret your decisions the next day but still have to work, you can pep yourself up with their…
Alright guys, so you enjoyed our first post about presidents? Well, that was child’s play, and we’re just getting warmed up. Welcome to our 2nd part of a 5 part series, outlining the quirky connections between coffee and past POTUSes. Lets get started:
11) James K Polk: is said on many accounts to have been the most boring of all of the US Presidents, ever. Not only is he said to have never danced, a couple sources have reason to believe that he never drank coffee, and he and his wife were labeled overly prudish by many.
We begin our list of all of the presidents of the United States of America, and a tidbit or two of their quirky or interesting relationships to coffee. This is part 1 of a 5 part series.
1) George Washington: he was a coffee importer according to some of his ledgers, bringing in as much as 200lbs of coffee at a time from overseas, and also asking for what was considered the world’s best coffee beans just weeks before he died.
San Francisco is known for being on the up-and-up: they have hills going “up” everywhere, their property costs have risen astronomically, and perhaps less known is their fantastic source of our favorite upper: coffee.
