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Fresh Brews – Virtual Coffee And Coffee Breath Mints

Fresh Brews – Virtual Coffee And Coffee Breath Mints

Mercedes-Benz serves up virtual coffee Ok, so it doesn’t actually make coffee, but the Mercedes Benz S550 has a feature to determine if a driver is tired and in need of a coffee break. A coffee cup icon will actually appear on the speedometer if it’s time to take a break. Now, I know what [...]

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Fresh Brews: Jesus In A Coffee Cup, Extinct Coffee Makers & More

Fresh Brews: Jesus In A Coffee Cup, Extinct Coffee Makers & More

Man finds Jesus in coffee stain I couldn’t make this up if I wanted to. I think he might have had too much coffee that day, but who knows, even after searching, I couldn’t find a picture. Dunkin’ Brands opens 15,000th store Last week, Dunkin Donuts opened up their 15,000th store. I’d like to think [...]

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Yankees Outfielder Blames Coffee For His Poor Performance

Yankees Outfielder Blames Coffee For His Poor Performance

While I was looking for articles for my weekly coffee news round up, Fresh Brews, I came across this story, Damon cuts caffeine, back in lineup: Outfielder hopeful that less coffee will help ‘fluttering eyes.’ Last Thursday, when the Yankees were playing their rivals the Boston Red Sox, a Yankees outfielder named Johnny Damon fumbled [...]

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Fresh Brews: You Left Your Coffee On Your Car Roof

Fresh Brews: You Left Your Coffee On Your Car Roof

A lot going on in the coffee world this week and this doesn’t even include the news articles I lost when my computer decided it was a good time to crash. Of course, there’s more news from the coffee wars, but my favorite story is about attaching a coffee cup to the roof of a [...]

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Fresh Brews – Lazy Sunday Afternoon Edition

Fresh Brews – Lazy Sunday Afternoon Edition

I promised myself that this week I was going to avoid the “coffee wars” but it seems like week after week they continue to dominate the headlines of the coffee world. Green Mountain Coffee’s hot stock won’t cool down While McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks continue to battle, Green Mountain Coffee is continuing to cash [...]

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Fresh Brews: Blame It On The Rain

Fresh Brews: Blame It On The Rain

A lot has been going on in my world last week, computer crashing, losing all of my files and having to spend an entire day and night fixing it. But things are just as busy in coffee land. Coffee Price Too Steep? Blame the Weather Looks like wet weather in Columbia and other coffee producing [...]

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Fresh Brews: Twitter And Some Really Expensive Coffee

Fresh Brews: Twitter And Some Really Expensive Coffee

Will Twitter boost users’ taste for coffee brand? It seems like just about everyone is on Twitter now, lots of great independent coffee shops, roasters, and of we can’t escape the giants Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. Eight O’Clock Coffee decided to join in the fun too. The story describes their reason to join Twitter and [...]

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Fresh Brews: Coffee Is Good For You

Fresh Brews: Coffee Is Good For You

There was a lot going on in the coffee world last week, and believe it or not, most of it wasn’t about the “coffee wars” that I enjoy talking about so much. Read this over coffee Coffee gets a fair amount of negative press, every few months or so there’s a new scientific study about [...]

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Fresh Brews: Coffee Wars

Fresh Brews: Coffee Wars

Really, there’s only one story in coffee land this week – the battle for coffee drinker’s money between Dunkin Donuts, McDonald’s and Starbucks. You may have noticed this week that McDonald’s is hitting with shock and awe, touting their McCafe on television, billboards and on the internet. Of course, don’t count out Starbucks or Dunkin [...]

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Fresh Brews: Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee and Green Coffee

Fresh Brews: Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee and Green Coffee

The weekly look back at the coffee world. A lot was going on, especially if your name is Starbucks. Don’t worry, this isn’t becoming a Starbucks only blog, lots of other things in the works for the near future. Starbucks, Awaiting Recovery, Says Profit Fell 77% Last week was a pretty rough seven days for [...]

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