Fresh Brews: Coffee Tasting Party, Starbucks Prices Going Up & More
You never know what is going to happen next in the coffee world. Fresh Brews is a weekly attempt to wrap up everything going on in the news and on the blogs.
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Coffee Blogs
The Coffee Adventures Shorty’s Blend from Buddy Brew Coffee Review
Jamie reviews coffee from one of my favorite local roasters. It looks like I’m going to have to add this one to my list of coffees to try.
Take Courage Coffee Tasting Party
This is my kind of party! Follow Bill and Kim’s lead and invite some of your non-coffee geek friends over to introduce them to the world of good coffee.
Coffee & Conservation Starbucks CAFÉ Practices
Love them or hate them, Starbucks is currently the largest buyer of Fair Trade coffee. Eleven percent of their coffee is fair trade and 4% is Organic. However, what’s behind those numbers?
Coffee News
Genetically modified coffee company in Hawaii sold
Looks like there’s something going on in Hawaii. If you’ve had non-Kona coffee, you may have had genetically altered coffee and may have not even known it.
Starbucks raising some prices
The world’s largest coffee chain says that it’s increasing prices of labor intensive drinks due to the sky rocketing green coffee bean prices.
World Bank’s IFC Provides a Loan Guarantee for Coffee Farmers in Ethiopia
It looks like the Ethiopian coffee industry is about to get a boost – about a $30 million boost. That’s great news for people like me who can’t get enough of the coffee from that African country, hopefully it goes to the small farmers that need it the most.
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TOTALLY IRONIC that Shorty’s Blend came about as a mistake.
loved that story.
makes me wonder.
what if coffee is one of Natures mistakes?
you just gotta love the Universe.
nice post Jaime.
It is kind of a mistake if you go with the story that it was accidentally found by an Ethiopian goat herder.
that article about genetic coffee…
‘…The coffee is then ripened by a chemical spray….’
blehhhh
Yeah pretty scary…makes me want to do more organic coffee.
Coffee Tasting Party! Now that is my kind of party. I am right there with you. Right after I type this I am checking out that story. [_]) cheers Mike have a great morning!
Cheers to you too!