Barista Guru Coffee News

Have Some Smuckers with your Folgers

Dave and Dennis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:12:14 +0000

Smuckers is buying Folgers from Proctor and Gamble. For 3.3 Billion dollars. And somehow they are doing it tax-free.

I didn’t bother to read the whole confusing story. But if you are into these sort of major league plays - it may interest you to see how they are going to do it.

I want to buy my coffee tax free, too!

Folgers might not be your favorite, but they have good market presence and it makes me wonder why P&G would want to sell them in the first place. Maybe they need the cash.

Here’s the “scoop“.

No Cell Phones in Coffee Shop!

Dave and Dennis — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:26:51 +0000

A barista in St Paul hates the cell phone ringing. Stephen Schweckendieck manages Coffee News Cafe of St Paul, Minnesota said he was so fed up with people on their cell phones that he made a law you couldn’t use them inside.

Here’s the deal, and I love it.

If you make a call or take a call or text while ordering at the Coffee News, you get a fine - $2 !! and the last place in the coffee line.

Pretty cool we though.

Here a video about the coffee shop and cell phones.

Coffee and Gout - Really

Dave and Dennis — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:18:24 +0000

Okay, I know many have written to us for more articles on coffee and how it affects health. Here is an interesting article on gout and coffee. You may be surprised on the results. We were.

Nice Job… If You Like Coffee

Dave and Dennis — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:12:36 +0000

There was a great story in the St Louis Post-Dispatch about coffee buyer Robert Carpenter. If you know little about “cupping”, this is a good article to start.

Is This the Biggest Cup in the World?

Dave and Dennis — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:49:09 +0000

Manufacturer Cafe Duran took 300 pounds (136 kgs) of arabica coffee to brew a cup which was 3 yards by 1.6 yards over 4 hours.

Panama’s predominate coffee maker said it thinks it has set a world record for the world’s biggest cup of java, after brewing 750 gallons (2,840 liters) in a huge coffee cup on Sunday.

“We are really thrilled with this, Panama has done it!” Ricardo Duran, director-owner of the firm, said to thundering applause, fireworks and live tropical music.

The debut aims to draw notice to Panama’s small but growing gourmet, estate-grown coffee industry, organizers said. “And the coffee’s actually damn tasty,” said Irma Castillo, a Panama City inhabitant sipping the hot drink as it was given away after the record attempt.

Duran will submit its record-breaking endeavor to officials at Guinness World Records this month. The preceding Guinness record was held by the United States for brewing 660 gallons (2,500 liters) in New York in 1994.�