This post introduced 10 methods on brewing coffee. It is a collection of all the coffee brewing methods that I know. This is a post for the coffee lovers. Try out all the methods and test the flavors. Using the same coffee and find out which method is best to bring out the flavors. Some of the methods can be done right away as

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With all the big fast food restaurant chains around Red Deer and Central Alberta these days, most of the small gourmet coffee bars have gone out of business. If you are one of those who would like to get a great cup of coffee brewed from fresh ground gourmet coffee beans, this new cafe is right up your alley. How about a real c

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The JM Smucker company will be adding Folgers to its already impressive list of number one brand names. Smuckers already owns Pillsbury, Crisco, Jif amongst others and now adds the 1 billion dollar brand name Folgers. This deal propels Smucker into the retail stratosphere with ten number one brands. But will Folgers try to stre

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I love an innovative company especially when it's a small one with a handful of employees. Afro cafe is one such company with African themed products consisting of coffees, teas and other African themed merchandise. Their wine box radio is a novel way of promoting African Music and is really quite ingenious. And yes the radio

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My father loves his coffee. When I was talking to him the other day about create online shops, he suggested that I make a coffee pods site; he buys alot of coffee pods every month off of ebay.

I created Buy Coffee Pods as a one stop shop for all coffee related items. We offer coffee, coffee grounds, coffee beans, coffee po

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How important is your daily coffee? Can you go without? Do you develop headaches, become irritable, or are you just downright unable to function in the slightest capacity? For many of us, coffee is an integral part of our day and, because of this, we often develop very exacting standards for this currently under-priced commodit

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Discover the 90/10 Principle…….

It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations).

What is this principle?
10% of life is made up of what happens to you; 90% is decided by how you react.
What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the c

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The European Parliament is a very colorful institution. Just check this video. I love the way Silvio Berlusconi (media magnate, AC Milan owner and former Italian Prime Minister) picks a cookie out of his nose and flushes it down with an espresso … So classy :-)

That comes at the end of clip. It starts with another PM showing his love to hi

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Eric and I did some of our shopping Saturday. Yes, I did try to stand my ground about not letting the girls go to his Parents house, but as usual, I am overruled. So off, Eric and I go to tackle the stores. Toys 'R Us is first - both the girls have asked Santa for a Baby Alive. We got to the doll aisle and, of course, there are several vers

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Another subject close to my heart.
Having married a woman who was totally addicted to coffee and prone to miscarriage, I have seen and experienced the trauma and pain that successive miscarriages bring.

Coffee is probably one of the most common addictions, causing low blood pressure, vitamin B1 (thiamine) and mineral deplet

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Starbucks will be closing all of it's locations for three hours tonight to retrain some 135,000 employees in an effort to re-vitalize it's sagging image.

This had me in a sweat-infused panic until I stopped and thought about another Starbucks fanatic, and what she might do in such a crisis. And how I might emulate her.

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For some people, Starbucks coffee shops have set a new standard for what they crave in the form of espresso. As some already know, espresso is made by forcing hot water through tightly packed coffee grounds and it typically has a significantly higher caffeine content than regularly brewed coffee. In order to duplicate the flavo

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Earthlings, reduce your trips to Starbucks if you are going to survive the recession. Please do not get us wrong. We are absolutely, positively addicted to Starbucks. However, $4 cappuccinos will cost you $120 per month, and $1,440 per year just in cappuccinos.

We love Starbucks coffee, but during the recession, make your co

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There is now a special blend of coffee which reduces the reflux/stomach upset that typically follows.

If you enjoy a good cup of coffee but dread the after-effects, then this blend is for you. While I can’t say it tastes exactly like most other coffees you’ve tried, it does hit the spot and does not cause me to suffer from r

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We have all done it, yes, burned the coffee pot. You were in a hurry to leave for work and jetted out of the house without turning it off, only to return 9 hours later to a smell that reassembles a combination of burned brownie and charred cookies. Well there are a few simple solutions to remove that burned coffee. Who knew it would really b

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How long do you wait for your favorite beverage at Starbucks? I never seemed to notice the wait till Apple came along and filed its brand new patent this month. Apple now wants to eliminate the need to wait in long lines for your iced mocha or green tea.

From the patent ... One goal, the patent application notes, is to avoid an “annoying

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Are you a freelancer who drinks more than she writes? Then you need to take yourself in hand and leave the coffee in the pot. This post takes the lid of how much coffee a freelance writer might drink in any given day and how that might affect the amount of writing they do. When you spend too much time drinking coffee and not enough time writi

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