Fresh Brews: Cold Brewed Coffee Done Cheap, 5 Reasons To Hate Starbucks And More

Welcome to Fresh Brews. Each week, I scour the internet, stumbling through dozens of blogs and across hundreds of newspapers to find stories for our round up of all that is informative, entertaining and random in the coffee world. Enjoy!

Cold Brewed Coffee on the Cheap
What’s the temperature where you live today? Hot? Or extreme desert like conditions with chances of killer storms? Yeah, that’s what they’re forecasting for here too. To help stay a little bit cool, here’s an article you might enjoy (or need) on how to make cold brewed coffee without buying a whole system.

The Great American Coffee Pot
I tried to sum up Alex’s post with a fun, witty sentence, but I failed. Instead, I think you should just head over to Baristing and read this post. Do it now!

5 Reasons to Hate Starbucks
Food blog, Serious Eats put together five semi-good reasons to hate Starbucks. Most of their reasons are the standards and could be used against any giant corporation. However the best line comes at the very end of the article. I’m not going to tell you what that line is, you’re going to have to read the article to find out.

Cooking With Coffee
I love cooking with coffee, so of course I had to include this article from Coffee Krave. I don’t know which is my favorite recipe mentioned in this article, but I’m leaning towards the baby back ribs with coffee-bourbon barbecue sauce. Mmmmm. Bonus article from Coffee Krave – Using Coffee Grounds In The Garden

Awakening To A New Coffee Mural Record
Have an extra 400 pounds or 1 million coffee beans laying around? Then maybe you could break the current world record coffee murals. If that sounds a little too much work, maybe you can just enjoy the pictures of the current record holder.

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