Baronet Coffee has sent us over some of their Terra Leaf Tea Pods to try out. These Tea Pods are packed much like coffee pods in a 62mm pod that can be used in just about any coffee pod brewer. Baronet calls the Terra Leaf Tea Pods the evolution of tea, and we'd have to agree.
The Earl Grey and English Breakfast are what you'd expect but a little more in flavor. We brewed up all the teas using our Bunn My Cafe outfitted with the tea pod brewer and then used the tea setting. Excellent. We think given these tea pods are packed to the brim with tea makes them brew a much more flavor filled cup of single serve tea.
Flavors Include:
Black Chai - a traditional eastern blend of teas and spices
Earl Grey - a classic cup with distinctive flavor and bouquet
Decaf Black - smooth and soothing harvested from the fields of Ceylon
English Breakfast - dark and bold, a perfect first cup
Citron Green - deeply complex with notes of fresh citrus
Keurig Mini Plus Coffee Brewer Now at Green Mountain Coffee
The Keurig MINI Plus Personal Brewer is ideal for gourmet coffee, tea and hot cocoa drinkers who want a brewer that is compact and easy-to-use in the home or even home office. The Mini Plus allows you to brew 6, 8 or 10 ounces to get the strength you desire in your cup of single serve coffee in under 2 minutes with no water left in the reservoir. You can read our full review of the Keurig MINI Plus B32 brewer here.
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July 27, 2010
Duct Tape Mug Fixes Your Caffeine Woes
Each morning we think - how do we fix this nightmare of a morning and really make our efforts stick? Well - how about a duct tape coffee mug filled with single serve coffee? Yes. This mug resembles well - a mug held together by duct tape much like the fabric of our existence can feel from time to time. You can get this coffee mug at Think Geek.
Caribou Coffee Obsidian K-cups at Target for Keurig
Straight from the Single Serve Coffee Forums (thanks JBViau) we've gotten news of these new K-Cups from Caribou Coffee called Obsidian. Obsidian K-Cups have floral nuances and fruit sweetness that can be obscured in many dark roasts. This coffee is smooth to the finish, and heavy with flavors of juicy, luscious wild berries. It finishes with a decadent, bittersweet chocolate flourish.
That's right - if you've got loads of old computers sitting around, a glass coffee table, and lights? Well you can build yourself a component PC coffee table. David Maloney created this brilliant coffee-table from the innards of his old machines that he kept around hoping to recycle some day - and recycle he did.
Maloney explains:
"For years I've been throwing old computer boards into a box in the garage to someday recycle them into some sort of project. It finally popped in my head to create a table with them using some of the black walnut from a tree we cut down a few years ago and had milled in the yard with a portable mill.
"It's basically two tables. One internal table to screw the boards to and another set of wood frames with glass that slide on top of the board table. It's basically a wood diorama. It will be very easy to swap out the computer boards with something else once we get tired of the look of the boards."
We'd like to see of course something along the lines of a recycled set of video screens of different sizes all playing random images. Who knows, but just seeing this makes some ideas of other recycled parts coffee tables.
Japan is a magical place, and this cafe inside the Marunouichi Building in central Tokyo offers its guests one iPad for every table. It also seems all the iPads are left largely unattended and unsecured which just wouldn't work here in the US. If we ever get to Tokyo, we're pretty sure we'll find even more coffee meets tech wonders. Do you know of more?
Sweet Berry Lime Green and Tropical Breeze White Iced Tea K-Cups
Green Mountain Coffee and Celestial Seasonings have added two more brew over ice K-Cups to the line of Iced Tea K-Cups - Sweet Berry Lime Green Iced Tea K-Cups and Sweet Tropical Breeze White Tea K-Cups. You can brew both of these K-Cups using your Keurig brewer direct over ice. With the ability to brew over ice you get icy cold tea in seconds instead of minutes.
Sweet Berry Lime Green Iced Tea is a satisfying fusion of smooth green tea, sweet juicy berry flavor, and a potent splash of lime.
Both are perfectly sweetened with all-natural cane sugar and created to satisfy the growing consumer interest in green and white teas. We'll have a full review and sampling of these new iced tea K-Cups soon.
Gevalia Iced Coffees for Tassimo - Sweet and Black Iced Coffees
The Tassimo hot beverage single serve coffee maker system now does iced drinks. Gevalia has introduced two iced coffee options - Black Iced Coffee, and Sweet and Creamy iced coffee. It's nice to see Tassimo introduce both a sweetened and non-sweetened option, and we hope to try these two flavors soon.
Gevalia Black Iced Coffee - The smooth, robust flavor of Gevalia coffee expertly crafted to be brewed over ice for a refreshing beverage perfect any time of the day.
Gevalia Sweet and Creamy Iced Coffee - Expertly crafted to deliver the perfect balance between the smooth,robust sweetened coffee and milk creamer.
We just walked into our local Starbucks only to find a new option in the VIA line of instant microground coffees - Starbucks VIA Iced Coffee. The VIA Iced Coffee is cold brewed and comes lightly sweetened with cane sugar. Each VIA Iced Coffee packet brews up 16 fl. oz. of 100% natural instant and microground coffee.
It's meant to be served over ice, and though we've yet to try it - sounds good to us given the heat wave here in the northeast. You can read our review of the Starbucks VIA Tumblr and coffees here. We'll pick some of these up and have a full review soon.
BP Oil Well Capped - Still Can't Clean Up Coffee Spill
Maybe it's too soon to stand up and cheer for joy, but as of yesterday it looks like BP has finally capped the oil well in the gulf. During the entire mess a comedy troop made one of the funnier rips on BP with a coffee twist. For your Friday viewing pleasure we give you the "BP Coffee Spill". Our 2 cents BP? Maybe you should brew into travel mugs using a single serve coffee brewer, and then put the top on your travel mug. Thanks to Jim for sending this in.
We've been long time fans of Baronet Coffee based in CT, and they now have a redesigned site, line of coffees, and coffee pods to make our fandom even bigger. Baronet single serve coffee pods come packed individually or in bags, and we really love the variety and choice you can get from Baronet. We've reviewed Baronet coffees in the past, and can tell you their coffees are fresh, and make a great cup of single serve coffee every time.
Astronaut Leroy Chiao's Proclaims Coffee Maker Changed His Life
We know that single serve coffee has changed our lives, but has it changed it enough to make us a feel motivated to become an astronaut or scientist? According to Astronaut Leroy Chiao a coffee maker was just the thing that got him through school, and changed his life putting him on the track for space.
I had a few machines before, but the game changer was a Salton Three-for-All, that I acquired back in 1984. In addition to regular coffee, it could also brew espresso, and given a little talent for controlling the limited amount of steam it generated, one could also make a cappuccino of sorts. This machine served my roommates and me well during my graduate student days.
So - perhaps we all need to look at that single serve coffee maker in our lives, and realize it's probably doing more than just making us caffeinated. It might just motivate us to the moon and back.
Dual purpose design can be hard to pull off, but when you combine two of the most popular items on the planet - coffee and music you get genius. Dubbed the "Appresso", this concept espresso and music device does the dual design right providing rich music and caffeine infusions.
The “Appresso” uses the Android technology to inform you about the taste and scent of the coffee, in addition it reads QR-codes from each coffee capsule which helps play a specific song based on which pack you’ve scanned. The "Apresso" was designed by designers In-oh Yoo & Bong-yup Song for Metatrend Institute.
Review: Fratello Nicaraguan Los Placeres Single Serve Coffee Pods
The latest batch of Fratello pods arrived from Calgary recently, and they don't disappoint! Quite the contrary. You'll find a great new micro-lot from Guatemala, the Guatemala Montecristo, as well as their superb Tanzania Songea Peaberry, which recently became the highest-rated coffee ever to be offered in pod form when Kenneth Davids gave its whole-bean equivalent a 94, and this coffee in whole bean form a 90. And you'd certainly be missing out if you overlooked Fratello's Nicaraguan Los Placeres, perhaps our favorite of them all and our focus in today's review.
With this pod Fratello continues its tradition of offering fantastic single-serve Nicaraguan coffees. Part of their secret seems to be keeping it in the family, so to speak. The Los Placeres Estate is run by the award-winning Mierisch family, who own other estates such as Limoncillo, Mama Mina, and Los Milagros from which coffee for highly regarded pods has been harvested in the past. If you favor a more direct connection to where your morning cup has come from than the big chain roasters can offer, i.e. coffee with a story, look no further.
Nestea Peach Iced Tea for Nescafe Dolce Gusto Single Serve Beverage System
The heat is on across the US, and now's the perfect time to play it cool with the naturally sweet taste of peach iced tea from Nestea for your Dolce Gusto single serve beverage system. We're excited to try something sweet instead of savory for our Nescafe Dolce Gusto, and who knows what kinds of magical cocktails this might also enhance on a hot summer day.
Want to learn more about the Dolce Gusto single serve coffee, tea, and beverage system? Check out our full review of the Dolce Gusto single serve coffee machine here.
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