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Monday, June 27th

The Hype about Coffee Pods.

If you haven’t heard the buzz, you soon will. The newest adventure in single cup coffee is the “coffee pod” and pod machine. The concept is great, a universal one-cup coffee maker that has refills readily available for it. The pod it’s self is a relatively simple concept, a single serving of coffee in a filter packet. By using a small filter pack you can make a single cup of freshly brewed coffee or tea quickly and conveniently.
The goal of the majority of machine and pod manufactures is to make a pod that will fit all of the different machines to give the consumer the choice that they currently have with the 12 and 4 cup coffee makers but the luxury of the one cup coffee maker. The development has been a slow process and the machines lag behind the pods themselves but it’s starting to all come together and it’s really becoming a great single cup option.
Pods currently range in sizes making some pods difficult to use in the home models vs. the commercial models. Folgers, Senseo and JavaOne offer themselves as an option for all of the pod machines except the Melitta machine. The Melitta Company started with a smaller pod that fit only their machine but will soon be marketing a larger more universal pod. Green Mountain recommends that their larger pod, containing 11g of coffee be used only with the commercial machines that can handle the larger pods. However, it looks as though it will rapidly trend toward pods and machines that are versatile and universal.
As pods continue to gain ground in the single cup coffee arena the variety of machines and coffees will continue to grow making this a winning option for the consumer. At CoffeeGIANT.com we are watching the pod trend closely in an effort to offer the best machines, coffee and tea pods available to our customers.

hbonham on 06.27.05 @ 04:22 PM CST [link]

Wednesday, June 22nd

CoffeeGIANT.com highlights K-Cups for Keurig Beverage Systems

Keurig Premium Coffee SystemsTM is the industry leader in single-cup coffee brewing technology in the U.S. Introduced in 1998, Keurig's innovative single-cup brewing system lets coffee lovers brew perfect coffee, one cup at a time, in less than a minute.
Keurig was founded by coffee lovers who believed that coffee should always be served fresh, whether at home or at the office, just as in a gourmet coffee house. They noticed that people were constantly leaving the office in search of a fresh cup of coffee and asked themselves: "Why do we brew coffee a pot at a time when we drink it a cup at a time?" From this question, the revolutionary concept of Keurig K-Cup® portion pack brewing was born.

CoffeeGIANT.com offers a variety of K-cups for the Keurig B100 and B50 Beverage Systems.

Green Mountain has 23 varieties of K-cups. Every K-cup portion pack contains its own filter and just the right amount of freshly roasted Green Mountain Coffee that has been precision ground and sealed for freshness. The K-cups have been flushed with nitrogen and stay sealed until you start brewing so there are never any worries about the coffee getting stale. Now everyone can chose from a wide variety of blends, light and dark roasts, Fair Trade and Organic, flavored and decaf coffees. No clean up, no hassle, no waste, just a good cup of coffee.

Diedrich roasts 6 different coffee varieties that can be used in the brewer. Diedrich takes its freshest, most delicious coffees, made from 100% Arabica beans, and packs them into the Keurig K-Cup®, a unique patented package that keeps the coffee fresh. Coffees offered include flavored, and origins and blends in both regular and decaffeinated.

Gloria Jean’s offers 12 different coffees and 7 different teas in the K-Cup option. The coffees are produced from the finest Arabica beans and Gloria Jean’s offers some wonderful flavors to choose from. The teas offer a choice of both regular and herbal decaf.

Celestial Seasonings teas are available in K-cups, packaged exclusively by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Celestial Seasonings is the largest herb tea manufacturer in North America and is expanding internationally at a rapid rate serving more than 1.2 billion cups of tea per year.

hbonham on 06.22.05 @ 10:25 AM CST [link]

Wednesday, June 8th

U.S. Coffee Roasters See Summer Sales Perk

NEW YORK - Summer is no longer a string of dog days for U.S. coffee roasters,
who have abandoned the phrase "see you in September" as demand starts to even
out year-round.

An old rule of thumb among commodity traders was that coffee drinking declines
during summer's warmth, while gasoline demand rises during the vacation season.
But that doesn't apply much to coffee these days.

"Our business is down about 10 percent in July and August compared with the winter,
but back in the 1960s it was down as much as 40 percent," said Donald Schoenholt,
president of Gillies Coffee Co., roasters in Brooklyn, New York. "After air
conditioning spread from movie theaters to office buildings and then to homes,
people for the first time could sit cool at home and drink a hot cup of coffee."
Americans aren't like the British "who like a hot drink, mainly tea, on a hot day,"
he said.

More recently, chilled drinks like iced cappuccino offered by Starbucks,
Dunkin' Donuts and other chains, along with ready-to-drink brews sold by several
small regional companies and Starbucks have helped U.S. summer sales, Schoenholt said.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. in Waterbury, Vt., has suffered little in the
summertime, according to spokesman Rick Peyser. Sales of the company's specialty beans
are growing at 17 percent to 18 percent annually and are strong year round, accelerating
a little in the year-end holiday season, he said. Green Mountain customers make iced coffee,
and chilled latte and cappuccino, keeping company sales afloat in the traditional dog days.

Ted Lingle, director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America observes,
"coffee is a morning beverage and a cold weather beverage, so U.S. sales decline
in the summer, but exceptions are areas like the far northeastern U.S., where it's
still cool in the morning, and resorts with a lots of tourists."

"Meanwhile, we're very excited about recent growth in iced and cold-coffee drinks,"
which have tempered the summer downturn, Lingle said.

At Gillies and other roasters, "sales are still down a little in July and August and
a restaurant normally buying 50 pounds, might only buy 20," Schoenholt observed. "But
you still have to offer fresh product and pay your staff, rent and electricity bill.
It's a time for maintenance and planning, and if you're moving, doing that."

Most roasters' sales "are strongest from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 when the weather's cooler
and winter's coming," said Schoenholt, adding that he "used to wish every month was
October and every day was cold and damp."

The United States is the largest coffee-consuming country, drinking a fifth of the world's
java. But today's iced and chilled coffee craze owes a lot to Italy, where cracked- or
chipped-ice coffee called "granita" has been sold for decades, spreading through Europe and to
America, Schoenholt said.

On-the-go Americans sometimes don't like the steps it takes to make iced coffee at home -
brewing a fresh pot, letting it cool, and ensuring that ice cubes are on hand, roasters said.
But that process is only slightly more involved than preparing iced tea, the more popular U.S.
summer beverage. And since some drinkers complain that ice dilutes their java, Peyser at
Green Mountain recommends making coffee ice cubes and pouring a room-temperature brew over them.

hbonham on 06.08.05 @ 04:47 PM CST [link]

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Coffee News From CoffeeGIANT

The Hype about Coffee Pods.

CoffeeGIANT.com highlights K-Cups for Keurig Beverage Systems

U.S. Coffee Roasters See Summer Sales Perk