You demand a lot out of your coffee and you accept only the best. You buy the freshest beans, have the best hardware that you can afford, use filtered water, natural paper filters, and thick ceramic mugs… wait, did you just say paper filters?
Paper filters, while very good at screening solids from your coffee [...]
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I was skeptical about reviewing the Braun Tassimo Hot Beverage Station. I have used pod machines before and the results were always bad. I wanted to keep an open mind, even though the coffee I was about to drink, started out as concentrate in a plastic tub. However as a side [...]
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To what lengths would a person go in the pursuit of some of the rarest coffee in the world? Would you climb a mountain, trudge through a rain forest, or shall we say… eat roasted coffee beans that have been Biologically preprocessed by a small Indonesian mammal?
Right about now, you are thinking option [...]
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As an American unschooled in the world of European coffee, I only recently learned about the Illy coffee company. Intrigued by the name, I decided to see what they were all about.
Founded in 1933 (Trieste, Italy), Illy offers an espresso blend hand picked from nine different growing regions around the world. Illy [...]
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Continuing on with the Jura-Capresso tradition of fine coffee products — the IMPRESSA E9 Super Automatic Coffee Center offers an extensive array of features and functionality sure to satisfy both the die hard espresso aficionado as well as the casual espresso drinker.
Normally these two types of people would be hard pressed to find a [...]
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If its hot and humid enough, even the staunchest coffee drinker will look for alternative ways to enjoy coffee. This weekend some friends provided such an outlet for my coffee cravings – Espresso Truffles.This being my first experience with the Seattle Chocolates Company, I was not sure what to expect. If the [...]
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Mukka, Mukka, Mukka! I don’t know if it was it’s quirky design (cow print), the promise of the perfect stove top cappuccino, or the unknown mysteries of the Moka pot that had me giddy with anticipation to try the Bialetti Mukka Express.
As I waited for my Mukka Express to be delivered I stumbled [...]
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If any of you have read my past reviews, you probably know that I am a black coffee drinker, and that’s about it. No cappuccino, no caramel lattes, or other Starbucks concoctions. I believe in the purity of a cup of coffee, and all of the flavor that the bean has to offer. If [...]
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