Fresh Brews: Happy Father’s Day Edition
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.
Coffee News
Free WiFi Coming To All U.S. Starbucks Stores Beginning July 1
In case you missed it, Starbucks is opening up their WiFi to all of their customers starting at the beginning of next month. However, that didn’t help me last week when there were internet issues at my office and I needed a place with WiFi, but I suppose later is better than never.
North American Organic-Coffee Demand Rose in 2009, Analyst Says
Are you drinking more organic coffee? I know that I’m out there looking for more, but not always finding it.
FDA issues warning against Magic Power Coffee
It turns out that this coffee isn’t so magic after all. It’s marketed as a “sexual enhancer,” but instead it’s can cause dangerously low blood pressure and doesn’t get along with some prescription medicines.
Starbucks loses complaint against Costa Coffee ad campaign
In their advertising, Costa Coffee (a company based in the UK) claimed that 7 out of 10 coffee drinkers preferred their coffee. Starbucks sued and lost.
Coffee Blogs
Coffee Hero Starbucks Shrugged and Zoka Fights Back
The Coffee Hero responds to the announcement that Starbucks is offering free WiFi beginning July 1st. He fears that it’ll crush the sense of community and conversation, then replace it with a sea of laptops. What do you think will happen?
Further reading: Starbucks’ Free Wi-Fi: Bring on the Loafers, Lazies, and Loiterers
Daily Demitasse Coffee With Dad
Jennifer talks about how she got into coffee and the horrible coffee that her dad drinks. I think there’s some of us that can relate to that.
Starbucks Melody Where are all the Starbucks Clover stores?
Melody attempts to find all of the Starbucks stores with a Clover espresso machine, the high end espresso machine that brings along some of the rarest Starbucks coffees.
The Coffee Adventures Legendee Gold Coffee from Trung Ngyuen Review
Jamie discovers an interesting alternative to Kopi Luwak for those who don’t want to drink coffee that’s been through the digestive system of a cat.
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Thanks for sharing your weekly roundup Mike! I’m happy that I resisted being enticed by the “Magic Power Coffee” folks. I refused to display their ads on my site because it is clearly a gimmick and now apparently dangerous as well. Perhaps I will make a video post about this and other ‘healthy coffee’ ripoffs. Have a great week!
Anytime Nate! I think that would make for an interesting video, especially since there’s more and more of those coffees spring up and I wonder how many are gimicks and how many (if any) are backed up by scientific proof.
It will be interesting to see how free wifi will affect or not affect Starbucks’s customers. Perhaps more people will disengage from their environment, disregarding the opportunity to strike up a conversation with their friendly coffee lovers. Who knows!
On a second note, I bought my Dad a new drip coffee machine for Father’s day. The Mr. Coffee broke and was quite conflicted over getting him a French Press, but decided on something lower maintenance. Though it does have a thermal carafe, and not a hot plate.
Yeah, I think it’s going to be interesting to watch. At a couple of my local Starbucks it’s already hard to find seats, I’m curious how it will be after the free wifi and how many of those people will be drinking coffee.
That sounds like a pretty good father’s day present. For every day use, a drip coffee maker can’t be beat, but at least now you know what you can get him next time, a french press.