Category: Coffee Information
Extra Shots Of Daily Shot Of Coffee
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Happy National Coffee Day!
Make sure to check out the 2011 version of this blog post here! I don’t know about you, but I think every day should be National Coffee Day…at least it is for me! I also don’t know who (trust me I looked) declared this National Coffee Day, but they should get a pay raise! To [...]
Coffee Tasting With Friends
What do Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, Haiti, Mexico, and Nicaragua all have in common? They are all countries where coffee beans are grown. Recently we had the privilege of sharing some coffee from each of these countries with some family and friends. We actually tried a couple more coffees too! It would be the [...]
Back To School Guide To Coffee
When I went away to college, there were three things that I needed: a television, a computer (three gigs of ram was top of the line back then) and a coffee pot. I had no problem getting the television or computer to work, but the coffee maker was a different story. I had coffee before, [...]
The Lesser Known Facts about Coffee
This is a guest post by Carol Montrose. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. To the true coffee aficionado, coffee is not so much a beverage as it is a love affair. The coffee cognoscenti know the beans, the roasts, the most efficient to the most exotic [...]
Greed, Trickery, and Deception: The Untold Story of the Coffee Bean – Part 2
This is a guest post by Raza Imam. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. In the last installment of this series, we learned how French and Dutch traders were able to steal coffee from jealously guarded Arab plantations. In doing so, they literally planted the seeds of [...]
Acidity In Coffee
This is a guest post by John Gozbekian. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. When tasting coffee one looks for descriptors to illustrate how the coffee tastes as it relates to Body/Mouthfeel, Acidity, Sweetness, Bitterness and Umami (savory). And ironically with tasting, the use of the sense [...]
Coffee Toll Roasting – Choose with Care
This is a guest post by John Gozbekian. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. Toll roasting is an excellent way to utilize the expertise of expert and knowledgeable coffee roasters to produce a perfectly roasted coffee that can be packaged and labeled with your branding. The skilled [...]
Coffee is Good for More Than Just a Wakeup Call
This is a guest post by Kyle Simpson. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. You may think that there’s no better use for your morning cup of joe than its recuperative properties. Sure you’ve used it in cooking (a cup of coffee in chocolate cake mix adds [...]
Greed, Trickery, and Deception: The Untold Story of the Coffee Bean – Part 1
This is a guest post by Raza Imam, from The Coffee Maker Store. Learn more about how you can guest post for Daily Shot Of Coffee here. Coffee, as legend has it, was first found by Ethiopian shepherds over 1000 years ago who noticed their goats eating the berries of a certain tree. They started [...]






