At my local QFC supermarket there’s a Starbucks counter just inside the entrance. They sell coffee beans for $10.49 a pound, in bags of a pound, pre-measured and sealed.
In the coffee aisle of that same QFC, they sell Starbucks coffee beans in sealed bags for $11.99 for 12 ounces. That works out to about $16 [...]
At 9:00 AM this past Sunday, I made my way down to Victrola Coffee Roasters on Pike Street for their first monthly cupping session. We started with an introduction on the history of coffee, then were told about the many flavor characteristics of the various coffee-growing regions. Did you know that coffee can [...]
Reason #1 your coffee drink won’t sell: Even in Seattle people don’t care for it.
Coca-Cola in 2006 ceased production of Vanilla Coke, which I thought was OK, and launched two products in its place: Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla and Coke Blak. Both of these are going off the market this year. I picked [...]
I made my first trip to a PCC today to do some grocery shopping the all-natural organic sustainable way. (I actually went there expecting to get some Afri-Cola, which I did not find.)
In the Aurora Avenue PCC’s modest beer selection I found Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout Ale, “Brewed with Sebastopol’s Own Hard Core Coffee.” [...]