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National Coffee Association Coffee Consumption Study

The National Coffee Association has released their annual coffee consumption study and there weren’t many surprises this year.
Everyone knows its a tough year economically for a variety of reasons, and that was reflected in the study. While consumption overall has remained steady (54% of the overall respondents), gourmet beverages are down (14%, down [...]

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The coffee wars…

Dunkin Donuts is launching a new “taste test” ad that targets Starbucks. This is brilliantly timed campaign showing the results of an independent taste test (well, paid for by Dunkin Donuts, but conducted by an independent 3rd party research company) that shows that Dunkin Donuts won in a blind test of taste.
I say this [...]

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Iced coffee?

This summer has passed (pretty much… feeling very fall-like these days), but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the newest trend in coffee brewing – cold coffee brewing.
Now, I know what you are thinking, and yes, ice coffee has been around for a long time. But it seems that brewing coffee cold [...]

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