Fresh Brews: World’s Biggest Cup Of Coffee, Harvard Says Coffee Is Good For You And More
This week, a group is brewing the largest cup of coffee in Las Vegas. Which is good news because even Harvard is now saying that coffee is good for you. And that’s just part of the excitement going on this week in the coffee world. Here’s my attempt to round it all up this week.
Coffee Blogs
Texas Coffee People Starbucks Baristas Told to Slow Down – WSJ
The other huge news is the coffee world this week is that Starbucks is ordering their employees to slow down, work on only two drinks at a time and focus on quality. However, The Texas Coffee people look at a deeper issue – the confused branding of Starbucks with the chain trying to be everything and please everyone. What’s your opinion? Is it an issue? Do you think that Starbucks has spread themselves too thin?
Coffee Nate The MyPressi Twist Review & Tutorial Video
How do you get quality espresso at home without buying a $2,000 espresso machine? Coffee Nate shows how is his latest video.
Daily Demitasse Coffee Snob Conflict
Are you a coffee snob? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Jennifer debates this issue that many coffee geeks come across.
Take Courage What Makes a Good Coffee Shop and Sunergos Coffee
Bill breaks it down on what makes a good coffee shop and why Sunergos passes the test. What’s your criteria for a good coffee shop? As Bill was breaking it down, I couldn’t have agreed with him anymore.
New Coffee Blog
The Bean Parade
The newest coffee blog on the block is The Bean Parade, a blog about all things coffee. They describe it as “Stuff White People Like” but for coffee. Check it out and tell me what you think.
Coffee News
Guinness World Record Cup of Coffee
Today GourmetGiftBaskets.com plans to break the world’s largest cup of coffee, a 2,000 gallon cup of coffee at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas. I thought about going to this blogging conference now I’m wishing I went just to see this in person. Since I can’t be there, they did promise to send pictures and I’ll be sure to share those when I get them.
Coffee: The Good News
With all the studies and reports, it’s pretty difficult to keep up with the benefits (and drawbacks) of coffee. Harvard put together this infographic with with all the health benefits, health risks, caffeine comparisons, and a facts & Statistics page. Hopefully this makes things a little bit easier to keep up with.
eNotes.com Giveaway
eNotes.com are giving away one $150 Starbucks Giftcard and two $25 ones to students who let them know why they need eNotes.com to help you Fuel Your Midterm. If you’re a student, you should take a minute to enter because I’ve heard the the odds are good. But hurry, the giveaway ends today. You can find it by searching “Fuel My Midterm with Free Caffeine” on Facebook.
The Coffee-Storage Conundrum: How to Keep Beans Fresh
Everything you every wanted to know about keeping your coffee fresh and then some. Are cans or bags better at keeping coffee fresh?
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[quote]‘…a group is brewing the largest cup of coffee in Las Vegas…’[/quote]
i undertand the 2,500 gallon cup of coffee but what next?
a Bill Murray jump in and swallow some event?
(aka the dumpster dive on the Tonight Show this summer)
I don’t know how they’re going to top that, unless it’s with a swimming pool full of coffee.
I wonder what kind of coffee goes in that big of a cup? Maybe instant coffee?
Anyways, as to the WSJ article telling Starbucks baristas to ‘slow down’ – The article is a little misleading because theoretically the new process should not be any slower than the old system. In fact, drink quality should go up, and to me that’s the most important thing. I’m not sure why our culture is so acclimatized to everything being rush rush and instantaneous but I like slowing down for a moment at Starbucks.
the driver to rush rush in Starbucks seems to be their
busy walk up and drive up crowds. the in building crowds
sit and have a coffee and a chat or a read or
a WiFi but the come and go customer really has
changed how quickly they get customers orders
served.
and stores handle this differently.
family went to a SB in the metro district a few Sundays
ago and there was a big crowd at the door ahead
of a show in town nearby. the staff were working
in parallel to get drinks and food served.
it was rush rush but the final results were quite
good. i think one change they implemented was
to have the person taking your order actually
go through the entire process with a client,
rather than handing them off to a server at the
end of the line. it seemed they had enough people
on hand to make it work.
one suggestion i would make is to have the
last minute ‘buy me’ displays back a bit from
the order area. people in the midst of making their
mind up about something to drink don’t need
distractions at the same time. focus focus.
Melody – I read into a little and it was all brewed coffee. Hopefully they weren’t wasting a lot of good beans.
I’m curious if people will notice a change at Starbucks. I’ll pay attention and see I notice a difference. Overall, I agree with you. I hope it improves the quality.
Howard – I’ll trade your experience for mine. I went to my local Starbucks a little while ago, it was crazy and a long line in the drive thru. Of course, I ended up getting the wrong drink. Luckily, it was something else that I liked.
Wow, that is one gigantic cup of coffee! That’s just about how much coffee I need to get me through the day sometimes!
I’ll second that!
Hey Mike, thanks for the mention. I really felt this is an issue that should be broken down instead of just assigning titles to each other.
It scary what people will do to get into the Guinness World Records. No matter the quality of coffee, it’s such a waste on so many levels.
I really didn’t even think about it, it is a huge waste of coffee. However, I have to give them credit because it does seem to have gotten them a lot of publicity.
I agree with Jennifer. I saw a video interviewing the guys that made the huge coffee mug and apparently they didn’t even serve the coffee to people (they had a ‘separate serving station’ to taste coffee “similar” to the one in the big mug)… I wonder if they just threw it away after hitting their advertisement goal.
I’ll have to find that video.
Here it is Mike:
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/10/15/the-ultimate-caffeine-fix-video-of-the-guinness-world-record-largest-cup-of-coffee/
Thank you!