Green Mountain Coffee Delivers

    Perhaps by now you have been convinced of the fabulousness of single serve coffee brewers. There are a several different makes and each one brings something different to the cup. One of the benefits of the  Keurig single serve brewer is the impressive selection of different beverages that its parent company, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, has available. Some of the newer offerings include the  Emeril’s Vanilla Bean BAM, an infusion of lush Vanilla in a coffee that is bold enough to start with. There are other flavored coffees that are bold as well as flavored. And if you drink decaf, there are quite a few decaf brews to choose from, including a few that are strong enough to almost make you forget you are drinking decaf. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters recently acquired Timothy’s Coffee, so now, in addition to their own Green Mountain line,  GMCR now includes Tully’s Coffee, Newman’s Own, Caribou Coffee and Timothy’s, which brings us the very strong Emeril’s coffees

GMCR also brings out seasonal blends to match the mood of a specific time of year. For summer, there is Green Mountain Coffee’s Summer Safari Blend ( a spirited blend of South American and East African coffee) and The Perfect Peach in K-Cups. These flavors may be fleeting but  a new season will bring a new blend. There are five seasons of Limited Edition Fair Trade coffees at GMC, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Holidays, which offer special coffees (usually, one regular and one flavored) created to represent the feeling of that time of year. 

    Holiday: Gingerbread, Spicy Eggnog, Holiday Blend (November through December)

    Winter: Golden French Toast and Wicked Winter Blend (January through the middle of March)

Spring:  Island Coconut, Spring Revival Blend (End of March, through May)       

Summer: The Perfect Peach, Summer Safari Blend (June through August)

    Fall: Pumpkin Spice, Autumn Harvest Blend (September through the beginning of   November)

      

GMCR also released their Limited Edition Fair Trade Spring Revival Blend featuring, for the first time, Rwandan Fair Trade coffee to support the revitalization of Rwanda.  They also recently  announced their intention to convert two of their most popular coffees – The GMC Blend and the Vermont Country Blend® - to Fair Trade by Fair Trade Month in October.

    

By signing up for regular deliveries—you can change the time frame and the selection any time—you reap even more special benefits. To find out more, visit

 www.greenmountaincoffee.com

Coffee with a Conscience

Peet’s Coffee, known for their quality, deep roasted coffee, recently introduced their Uzuri African Blend. Uzuri means "excellent" and "beautiful" in Swahili and is an apt name for this very special coffee. This very rich and flavorful coffee is the result of hundreds of hours of hands-on farmer training by Peet’s coffee buyers that generates an income increase for 6,000 small-scale farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda..
This satisfying, full-bodied coffee is available for a limited time so you might want to look for it –it is well-worth the effort, on many levels.

http://www.peets.com/

Gourmet Hot Chocolate

     It takes more time and energy to make hot chocolate by hand, but the results are worth it. Taking the time to think about the food you are preparing and going to consume is a better way to eat and live anyway. For instance, hot chocolate made with real gourmet chocolate pieces and milk. You can buy these delectable beverages at  Caribou Coffee locations. (They have more than 500 coffeehouses across the nation- markets including Minneapolis, Chicago, D.C., Atlanta, Denver, Cleveland, Columbus, Raleigh, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Charlotte. Some locations have drive-thrus and/or meeting rooms as well as WiFi.) Caribou Coffee was founded in 1992 and is the second largest company-owned gourmet coffeehouse operator in the world.

There may not be a Caribou Coffee shop near where you live, but you can still have access to their new luxurious all natural gourmet chocolate to make your own hot chocolate from scratch using Guittard Dark, Milk or White chocolate. These chocolates are all-natural, kosher, gluten-free and were created exclusively for Caribou coffee by Guittard Chocolate Company, the oldest family-owned and operated chocolate company in the U.S. They still use  traditional French processing methods.

   Directions how to hand-melt the chocolate pieces into milk or soy milk are on the 12 oz tins, which sell for $9.99 each. Now you can make a delicious, rich, really home-made hot chocolate at home. If you are going to have hot chocolate, have an outstanding hot chocolate.

http://www.cariboucoffee.com/