Featured K-Cup: Green Mountain's Island Coconut

A quick trip to paradise. A tropical blend of sweet, creamy coconut.

Indulge your senses with this delightfully fragrant, tropical taste treat.

We've captured the lush aroma of freshly grated coconut — fruity, fresh, exotic — and blended it with the subtle sweetness of a lightly-roasted, Central American coffee. The result is as refreshing as it is unexpected.

Be transported to your own private island paradise with our Fair Trade Island Coconut... it's one sweet destination!

Green Mountain Island Coconut, available for a limited time only! Try it today:
25ct Box - $10.39; 100ct Case - $40.00!

CoffeeGIANT Memorial Day Sale

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Top Unusual Gifts for Coffee Lovers

Looking for the perfect gift for that coffee lover in your life? About.com has compiled a list of unique (and somewhat bizzare) gifts. Check it out!

1. A Barista Action Figure
Hey, since some people can't function without their morning espresso, a barista can really be a hero.

2. Java Logs
Especially for the environmentally conscious coffee-drinker. Java logs are man-made fireplace logs that are made up mostly of coffee grounds.

3. Java Jewels
Java Jewels Coffee Bean Jewelry -- what better way to declare your love of coffee to the world? Beaded necklaces and other jewelry made with beads and coffee beans. Choose your favourite roast or varietal.

4. Just Coffee Art
It's hard to believe that these amazing paintings are done entirely in coffee. Why do they paint with coffee? You'll have to visit their website to find the answer to that question.

5. A Real, Live Coffee Tree
An ideal gift for any coffee-lover who also has a green thumb. These plants will actually bloom and produce coffee cherries, given the right growing conditions (they do well indoors).

6. Sample of Kopi Luwak Coffee
Surprise someone with a gift box of the rarest coffee there is. It's also the strangest in my opinion. Kopi Luwak coffee beans have actually been eaten by a small animal before being collected and roasted.

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Deliciously Combustible

"Gas prices are really high in the US, and over the next few Summer months expected to climb higher. We're starting to see a lot of innovation in the world of the combustion engine, with hybrid models of cars that use electric and gas, and also diesel cars converting over to run on vegetable oil. Given the variety of different methods you could pick to power your automobile, we never thought we'd see a truck powered by coffee grinds.

"The truck above is powered by a wood gas generator, and this one runs on coffee grounds. The Cafe Racer is a 1975 GMC pickup that burns up used coffee to create a combustible gas. This method of powering a vehicle is called "gasification", and the article below has lots of cool info on how gasification can be used, and pros and cons of the method.

"Sure a tank of 'coffee grounds' is going to require a lot of used K Cups or coffee pods, but in the end you'll be not only drinking 'Fair Trade Organic' coffee, but also helping out the environment when you drive to work."
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Rooibos (roy-boss) Tea

"Rooibos is grown only in a small area in the Cederberg region of the Western Cape province. Generally, the leaves are oxidized, a process often, and inaccurately, referred to as fermentation by analogy with tea processing terminology. This process produces the distinctive reddish-brown color of rooibos and enhances the flavour. Unoxidized "green" rooibos is also produced, but the more demanding production process for green rooibos (similar to the method by which green tea is produced) makes it more expensive than traditional rooibos.

"In South Africa it is more common to drink rooibos with milk and sugar, but elsewhere it is usually served without. The flavor of rooibos tea is often described as being sweet (without sugar added) and slightly nutty. Preparation of rooibos tea is essentially the same as black tea save that the flavour is improved by longer brewing. The resulting brew is a reddish brown color, explaining why rooibos is sometimes referred to as "red tea". Rooibos translates to "Red Bush" in Afrikaans, a South African language descended from Dutch.

Several coffee shops in South Africa have recently begun to sell "red espresso", which is concentrated rooibos served and presented in the style of ordinary espresso (which is normally coffee-based). This has given rise to rooibos-based variations of coffee drinks such as red lattes and red cappuccinos.

"Rooibos is becoming more popular in Western countries particularly among health-conscious consumers, due to its high level of antioxidants such as aspalathin and nothofagin, its lack of caffeine, and its low tannin levels compared to fully oxidized black tea or unoxidized green tea leaves. "Green" rooibos (see above) has a higher antioxidant capacity than fully oxidised rooibos."
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Check out RedEspresso at CoffeeGIANT.com! Serve as you would coffee-based espresso, sweeten with honey and milk.

PULSE/Pre-Infusion Method for Keurig

Found within the SingleServeCoffeeForums:

Make all K-Cups "extra bold" by PULSEing your machine!

Simply insert your K-Cup as normal, place mug below and press the brew button. Once the water begins to run through, slightly pull up on the level to activate the autostop feature.

Wait ten-twenty seconds, then when you push the lever back down your brew should resume (Note: do not open the K-Cup holder, only pull up enough to pause the brew).

This method of pre-wetting, or "pre-infusing", the coffee grounds will result in a better extracted cup.

The Story of Coffee: Iced Coffee

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Hot times! Summer's finally here and we can't help but think of swimming holes, shady porch-swings and a tall cup of coffee.

Coffee?
Sure! Coffee's not just for breakfast any more... or the blustery days of winter, either. When the mercury climbs – or whatever that stuff is they put in thermometers today – all you need are a few handy tools and a little know-how and you can make easy and refreshing treats to see you through the summer heat.

The tools.
You may think you need a fancy blender to make a smooth iced coffee drink. Not so! Our favorite drinks require little more than ice, coffee and some kind of leak proof container to shake ‘em up. Of course, there's really no better tool for the job than a cocktail shaker... We like those that are made of durable, dishwasher-safe stainless steel, and feature a built-in strainer.

For drinks that are stirred, not shaken, you might also consider ice-cube trays. Even if you've got one of those automatic ice-maker gadgets in your freezer, the humble ice-cube tray has its uses... and one of those is to freeze coffee into cubes so that as the ice melts it doesn't dilute your lovely iced coffee beverage.

The ingredients.
We like our iced coffee with a little bit of creamy dairy goodness (Vermont is a dairy state, after all!) and a little bit of sweetener. Having said that, you've got a lot of options... you can use skim milk, or heavy cream, or anything in-between. (Heavy cream often has carrageenan, a natural thickener, added to it to give it added body – this is especially nice in frozen coffee drinks!) As for the sweet stuff: sugar is fine, honey is heavenly, but calorie and carb-neutral sweetening products will work as well – sometimes better. (More about that in a moment.)

The basic technique.
Brew fresh coffee. This is important! Who wants to drink coffee that's been left to cool (and loose its aromatics and flavor?) We like coffee that's to be iced brewed strong... even double-strength.

If you're adding sweetener, add it to the just-brewed, hot coffee and stir to dissolve. Neither sugar nor honey are soluble in cold liquids (but many sugar substitutes are, and can be added directly to your cocktail shaker.)

Fill your cocktail shaker with ice. Don't skimp... too little ice will leave you with a luke-warm, watery mix.

If you're adding dairy products, pour them over the ice in the cocktail shaker. It's a good idea all around to keep cold with cold until we're ready to bring them all together.

Shake, shake, shake! Add your hot coffee to your cocktail shaker, top with its lid and shake vigorously, all at once rapidly chilling the hot coffee, mixing coffee, sweetener and dairy, and frothing the whole mixture. Shake for no less than ten seconds and rarely more than twenty. Shaking done, simply strain your coffee concoction into a tall, cold glass – maybe even a classy martini glass or two – and enjoy.

With the basics in-hand, you can make iced coffee treats tailored to your tastes. To help you get started, here are some of our favorite coffee cocktail recipes.

Here's to a sweet summer!

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Keurig to release Mini Machine

Keurig B30 based on Keurig's hotel model B130

Keurig has announced that it will introduce a new home brewer with the smallest footprint yet. With an estimated footprint of just seven inches, the upcoming Keurig B30 will be perfect for the RV, dorm room, or corner of your office desk.

What makes this machine perfect for those road warriors among us is that the Keurig B30 has skipped the large reservoir, and opting instead to heat and hold only enough water for each cup. This means you would pour in 8 ounces of water, and three minutes later a delicious 8 ounce brew of K-Cup coffee is ready to enjoy. No water is left in the machine to slosh or spill while traveling.

This machine will be available in black and white from most retailers, with red models available through the Keurig website, beginning in late summer/early fall 2008.

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http://www.singleservecoffee.com/archives/018787.php

Health Benefits of Coffee

Plenty of health benefits are brewing in America's beloved beverage.

Want a drug that could lower your risk of diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and colon cancer? That could lift your mood and treat headaches? That could lower your risk of cavities?

If it sounds too good to be true, think again.

Coffee, the much maligned but undoubtedly beloved beverage, just made headlines for possibly cutting the risk of the latest disease epidemic, type 2 diabetes. And the real news seems to be that the more you drink, the better.

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http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-food