Fresh Brews: Drink Coffee And Win A Nobel Peace Prize

I’ve heard that it’s starting to cold in some places, that there’s even snow, but in coffee land there’s still baristas wearing bikinis. This week’s coffee news round up includes everything from coffee drinking mice to talking coffee makers. Really what else can you ask for?

Coffee News

Nobel Winners Helped By Independence, Coffee
Several winners of this year’s Nobele Peace Prize cited coffee as a factor in their successful work. However, instead of using coffee to keep them awake and functioning, they said it was the coffee breaks and conversations with their colleagues that aided them.

Study: Coffee won’t sober you up but makes you think it did
Even before I knew what it was to be drunk, I knew that you could drink coffee to sober up. However, now some scientists with mice say that we we’re all wrong. I can just see the mice running around with tiny bottles of Heineken and Starbucks paper cups.

Green Mountain Coffee to buy Diedrich for $290 Million
And we have a winner in the coffee wars! Or at least in the battle for the single service market. Buying Diedrich will give Green Mountain Coffee a huge chunk of the market, leaving Peet’s behind in the dust.

Lewd baristas face stricter rules
Those bikini wearing baristas just can’t seem to stay out of the news. Or maybe it’s just the local government spending way too much time with an issue and making it way bigger of a deal than it originally was.

Coffee Blogs

Starbucks Melody Should Starbucks introduce the Dark Cherry Mocha to the US?
Even before I read the article, my answer yes! Let’s make it happen Starbucks. I love chocolate and cherry flavored coffees, I can only imagine sipping on sugar loaded cherry mocha. Why are you keep this from me Starbucks?

Coffee Hero Bean-Counting: Winter Approaching
Doing the math with Winter, the man who’s visited just about every Starbucks.

The CaffiNation CafiNation Reviews: Primula Speak n’ Brew
Pzul reviews the Speak n’ Brew coffeemaker from Primula, a voice activated coffeemaker. Yup, that means you can program it to schedule your coffee without having to press all of the buttons. If anyone is still looking for a Christmas gift for me, feel free to get this one.

Coffee Sage Recipe for Kahlua Espresso Martini
This sounds like a perfect drink with the holidays coming up. Anything that mixes espresso and Kahlua sounds like a winning a combination in my books.

And on a side note. Have you entered to win the Nescafe Taster’s Choice prize pack?

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