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Coffee and Tea of Yesteryear Tip  Coffee or tea you want to brew the briefest with finer the grind or smaller the leaf size. Mismatch the grind or tea leaf size with the brewer & you're asking for big problems and discouragement ahead. On checkout let us know you want your order ground for what brewer.

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Isn't Life Simple  A French Press and medium fine grind for a brewing period of five minutes then see if its strong.

The Enemy of Every Tea Drinker Tip  Tars and tannins! You'll surely release some bitter flavors if you over brew or add too much or let stand over heat. Make certain tea leaf is not stale by pinching it. If its hard it probably is. Take the first Tetley Tea Bag in your chest and cut open to see what's inside. Is it dust ? Can you identify any of it ? Check contents on box.

Our View On The degradation of the cafe experience in almost every cafe from Colts Neck to Avon, New Jersey the coffee is not made as though it is the main theme of the beverage menu.

What Added Culinary experience can you add to your cup of coffee? Ask for 'one sprig of mint please' for your double shot of iced espresso, or one drop of mint bitters will do.

Chef Olympians  Who made them chefs 1.the real deal. 2. Local chefs give their credentials in schooling & resume in "who made them chefs" piece.

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Don't Get Snowed Name the first country that developed espresso. Answer: If you thought France you'd be correct. Italy later made a further development on French machinery, and took to a great advertising campaign, but it never made it true. Name the most famous country that repeatedly has won the coffee bar award hands down for creativity and service in the Mediterranean. Answer: If you thought Spain or maybe Italy you'd be soooo wrong! Although both of these countries did engage in many advertising promotions none really struck the Mediterranean people; in fact Italy has never ever won any award for coffee bar anything in any international award! But should you have thought of the Lebanese you would have been correct, as they've won awards for most categories. Lebanese roasted coffee anyone? (check back for more coffee roasting myths & legends).

Chef News For The Non Chef

The Concept of Fresh and Clean applies to the taste of coffee & tea whereas more earthiness is pleasant in chocolate. High quality white chocolate could have a tinge of earthiness and receive rave reviews. Are we contradicting ourselves saying chocolate can have earthiness but coffee and tea should not. Isn't this a contradictory statement ?

Hey sit down. Put away your knives chefs ! Take a closer look at what I wrote. It's all about balance. The artisan that made my white chocolate taste so good added just some earthiness to balance the sweetness found in so many white chocolate dishes. I ask that you apply the same standard to coffee and tea.

When a coffee is too light it hasn't enough body and when roasted too dark has too much body. What's going on ? There's a mismatch between the roast and the origin. Apply a critical analysis to the beans used and you might even find that the roaster misapplied the application of robust beans- those highly caffeinated low grown gems that are used by request only in our store-. How can you be certain these beans are used. First, your stomach will tell you. Second your mind and possibly your heart too. Taste is usually dirty with scents of car tires. In the Jersey Shore area some roasters use them and to mask them with Harrar.

In a regular roast using just Arabica beans you can achieve the same results. Now moving on to tea. An oolong might be flavored using jasmine flowers to tone down the depth of an oolong. Making it an art to achieve its perfection. This is found in our orange oolong tea.

The Art of the Coffee Deal as it applies to keeping your lifestyle in our present economy. In my trips to Walmart and Wegmans I always pass the coffee isle to see what the masses are drinking....and at what price. As prices soar the price gap between common coffee and our gourmet roasts are narrowing. The awful economy has put us in play just as it did several years ago.

$8.57 will buy you a pound of not just roasted coffee at some supermarkets. Its close to what they sell beans in bins for. For just some more change the customer can buy a pound of fresh coffee beans roasted that day and get more cups to boot. Go to our specials page and browse our store for more low prices.

a store like ours and begin to order. You might find you need a few moments to orient yourself. After all this is not a cafe you see everywhere. That's it exactly, you can't find the staff that won't talk, making drinks from origins they don't know about, and have hardly traveled walking the streets of an unknown to tourists side of town. With this knowledge we make a different kind of product and we were to some degree made into different kinds of people. People associated with our store will probably never darken the halls of a chain store. Except for the use of their bathrooms. Or taking up space to get to the business next door. Arrogance can be appropriate when you have a history of positive performance, and we have that history of romancing the bean and tea leaf.