$1m to fight the Coffee Berry Borer
Coffee producers in Hawaii have been fighting the Coffee Berry Borer for some time now but according to reports in the American press they are going to get a helping hand from Washington.
The U.S Department of Agriculture has announced that fund totalling $1m were to be released, with the money being split between the island state and farmers in Puerto Rico, who are also suffering from insect infestation. This pot of cash will help bankroll research initiatives and eradication programmes.
…continue reading $1m to fight the Coffee Berry Borer
Sound assisted coffee? Meet Elixir
According to the creators of this strange new liquid, Elixir Speciality Coffee ‘looks like whiskey, feels like tea [and is] made from coffee.’ They’re pretty big with the hyperbole too, stating that this new drink is ‘unlike anything you’ve ever tasted before.’
Whether or not that is true is another question, and one that we can’t answer because we haven’t had a swig of it.
…continue reading Sound assisted coffee? Meet Elixir
Blue Bottle Coffee pours flames on wholesale
Sometimes, it’s just better to keep things in house.
Blue Bottle Coffee, one of the hottest coffee companies in existence at the moment – if not in the entire world – has decided that they are to shut down their wholesale business.
James Freeman, Blue Bottle Coffee’s founder, made the announcement last week.
…continue reading Blue Bottle Coffee pours flames on wholesale
Frappuccino to fall foul of new San Francisco law
Public health initiatives are a good thing. Whether it be a concerted effort to get people active or by embarking on an advertising campaign to highlight to health risks associated with certain pastimes and products, generally, as a collective group, we’re all the better for them. Sometimes, a little gentle encouragement is enough; at other times we might need a jolt to the system.
In the United Kingdom, for example, there is legislation in place with ensures that health warnings are displayed on cigarette packing, often accompanied by a particularly startling image. Something I think that we can all agree isn’t a bad idea.
…continue reading Frappuccino to fall foul of new San Francisco law
Blue Bottle Coffee is green with investent
It’s nice work if you can get it.
Blue Bottle Coffee has just secured around $70m of funding.
It makes you wonder how much the high-brow California-based coffee chain is actually worth on the market, doesn’t it?
…continue reading Blue Bottle Coffee is green with investent
Pot coffee: A new infusion
If ever a product should have been launched on 4/20, it’s this one.
In a Seattle shop customers can wander in a purchase “premium infused coffee” for $10 a pop. These coffee pods and capsules work with most popular single-serve coffee machines on the market and are infused with a 10mg dosage of THC, the main active ingredient in marijuana.
…continue reading Pot coffee: A new infusion
Keurig to drop DRM: “We were wrong”
“Quite honestly, we were wrong.”
With those words Keurig’s Brian Kelly confirmed what consumers and some industry experts had known for months: Keurig’s relationship with DRM coffee would only end in tears.
Unfortunately for the company it hasn’t been a brief fling. It’s been a protracted affair where logic went flying out of the window, followed by money, dignity and then the trust of those most important to them. …continue reading Keurig to drop DRM: “We were wrong”
Cop sues Starbucks in hot coffee case
Another day, another lawsuit, another person trying to extract a dollar from a well-known coffee chain over a hot coffee spill: The world keeps on turning.
Normally we don’t mention majority of the ones that get forwarded our way, but sometimes we do, and that’s because they’re newsworthy for a variety of reasons. Such as this one lodged by a serving North Carolina police officer who wants a minimum of $50,000 from Starbucks.
…continue reading Cop sues Starbucks in hot coffee case
Starbucks shares jump on the back of Q2 results
As the bell rung at the New York Stock Exchange to signal the start of trading, shares in Starbucks began to slowly climb, before racing upwards in a manner that USA Today compared to a “late-day caffeine burst.”
The rise, in the region of 5%, came on the back of the global coffee giant’s publication of their second quarter revenues, which saw the company’s net revenues jump by 18% to $4.6 billion, and total same store-sales improve 7%. Profits are reported to be in the region of 16%.
…continue reading Starbucks shares jump on the back of Q2 results
Coffee loving parrot blamed for car crash
After a few days away exploring the culture (and coffee) of Eastern Europe, we are back, rested and brimming with information and, importantly, recommendations! Upon our return we found this in our inbox. And it’s a humdinger of a ‘what on earth?!’ type of story.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, a thirty-five year-old woman crashed her car.
Why you ask?
Well it was because of her coffee obsessed parrot.