K-Cups for Keurig Beverage Systems

Keurig Premium Coffee Systems™ is the industry leader in single-cup coffee brewing technology in the U.S. Introduced in 1998, Keurig's innovative single-cup brewing system lets coffee lovers brew perfect coffee, one cup at a time, in less than a minute.

Keurig was founded by coffee lovers who believed that coffee should always be served fresh, whether at home or at the office, just as in a gourmet coffee house. They noticed that people were constantly leaving the office in search of a fresh cup of coffee and asked themselves: "Why do we brew coffee a pot at a time when we drink it a cup at a time?" From this question, the revolutionary concept of Keurig K-Cup® portion pack brewing was born.

CoffeeGIANT.com offers a variety of K-cups for the Keurig B100 and B50 Beverage Systems.

Green Mountain has 23 varieties of K-cups. Every K-cup portion pack contains its own filter and just the right amount of freshly roasted Green Mountain Coffee that has been precision ground and sealed for freshness. The K-cups have been flushed with nitrogen and stay sealed until you start brewing so there are never any worries about the coffee getting stale. Now everyone can chose from a wide variety of blends, light and dark roasts, Fair Trade and Organic, flavored and decaf coffees. No clean up, no hassle, no waste, just a good cup of coffee.

Diedrich roasts 6 different coffee varieties that can be used in the brewer. Diedrich takes its freshest, most delicious coffees, made from 100% Arabica beans, and packs them into the Keurig K-Cup®, a unique patented package that keeps the coffee fresh. Coffees offered include flavored, and origins and blends in both regular and decaffeinated.

Gloria Jean’s offers 12 different coffees and 7 different teas in the K-Cup option. The coffees are produced from the finest Arabica beans and Gloria Jean’s offers some wonderful flavors to choose from. The teas offer a choice of both regular and herbal decaf.

Celestial Seasonings teas are available in K-cups, packaged exclusively by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Celestial Seasonings is the largest herb tea manufacturer in North America and is expanding internationally at a rapid rate serving more than 1.2 billion cups of tea per year.

U.S. Coffee Roasters See Summer Sales Perk

NEW YORK - Summer is no longer a string of dog days for U.S. coffee roasters, who have abandoned the phrase "see you in September" as demand starts to even out year-round.

An old rule of thumb among commodity traders was that coffee drinking declines during summer's warmth, while gasoline demand rises during the vacation season. But that doesn't apply much to coffee these days.

"Our business is down about 10 percent in July and August compared with the winter, but back in the 1960s it was down as much as 40 percent," said Donald Schoenholt, president of Gillies Coffee Co., roasters in Brooklyn, New York. "After air conditioning spread from movie theaters to office buildings and then to homes, people for the first time could sit cool at home and drink a hot cup of coffee."

Americans aren't like the British "who like a hot drink, mainly tea, on a hot day," he said.

More recently, chilled drinks like iced cappuccino offered by Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts and other chains, along with ready-to-drink brews sold by several small regional companies and Starbucks have helped U.S. summer sales, Schoenholt said.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. in Waterbury, Vt., has suffered little in the summertime, according to spokesman Rick Peyser. Sales of the company's specialty beans are growing at 17 percent to 18 percent annually and are strong year round, accelerating a little in the year-end holiday season, he said. Green Mountain customers make iced coffee, and chilled latte and cappuccino, keeping company sales afloat in the traditional dog days.

Ted Lingle, director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America observes, "coffee is a morning beverage and a cold weather beverage, so U.S. sales decline in the summer, but exceptions are areas like the far northeastern U.S., where it's still cool in the morning, and resorts with a lots of tourists."

"Meanwhile, we're very excited about recent growth in iced and cold-coffee drinks," which have tempered the summer downturn, Lingle said.

At Gillies and other roasters, "sales are still down a little in July and August and a restaurant normally buying 50 pounds, might only buy 20," Schoenholt observed. "But you still have to offer fresh product and pay your staff, rent and electricity bill. It's a time for maintenance and planning, and if you're moving, doing that."

Most roasters' sales "are strongest from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 when the weather's cooler and winter's coming," said Schoenholt, adding that he "used to wish every month was October and every day was cold and damp."

The United States is the largest coffee-consuming country, drinking a fifth of the world's java. But today's iced and chilled coffee craze owes a lot to Italy, where cracked- or chipped-ice coffee called "granita" has been sold for decades, spreading through Europe and to America, Schoenholt said.

On-the-go Americans sometimes don't like the steps it takes to make iced coffee at home - brewing a fresh pot, letting it cool, and ensuring that ice cubes are on hand, roasters said.

But that process is only slightly more involved than preparing iced tea, the more popular U.S. summer beverage. And since some drinkers complain that ice dilutes their java, Peyser at Green Mountain recommends making coffee ice cubes and pouring a room-temperature brew over them.