It’s time to get your buzz on and for once we don’t mean with booze (but, honestly, coffee and booze are a pretty good combo). September 29th is National Coffee Day so it’s time to get caffeinated!
In honor of National Coffee Day, we have been scouring our minds and the web for some fun coffee facts!
The top coffee drinkers in the world are the Americans, French and Germans. According to Yahoo Answers, the … Read more
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz Godiva Chocolate Vodka
Coffee (amount as desired)
1 scoop whipped cream
Caramel sauce for garnish
Directions:
Pour Godiva Chocolate Vodka into a snifter glass. Add in hot coffee as desired. Top with a scoop of fresh whipped cream. Drizzle caramel sauce over top for garnish.
Yield:
1 Drink
Created by Beate Kiser, New York City, NY. Courtesy of Godiva Chocolate Infused Vodka.
We spend a lot of time thinking about drinks but I was still taken aback by the impact that six beverages had on world civilization. In his book, A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage explores the effect that beer, wine, distilled spirits, tea, coffee and Coca Cola had on civilization and world history. It’s nothing short of remarkable.
Six Glasses discusses the anti-bacterial properties of beer, wine, distilled spirits and tea … Read more
At Portland Cocktail Week, we attended a very informative seminar on how to drink healthier. You might ask, is that really possible? We think that it is. As part of the seminar, we reviewed a number of popular hangover cures to see if they were purely a myth or if there was some substance behind them. We thought that we would bring the most popular ones to you. Here you go, hangover cures – fact … Read more
We recently attended our first coffee cupping sponsored by Kahlúa. We didn’t know what cupping meant. But, from what we can tell (and what we were told by the expert), it basically means tasting. It was interesting to me that there was actually a slice of the beverage world more pretentious than the wine world. I don’t mean to slam the whole wine world but they do make it pretty intimidating for beginners—the lingo, the … Read more
This week’s boozy links:
Starbucks is opening a Seattle location that will serve beer and wine—with more to come. If the experiment goes well, the concept could be tested in other cities.
The test move to sell alcohol is clearly an attempt to fight off growing competition from McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts, says Ron Paul, president of Technomic, a restaurant consulting firm.
Starbucks experiments with new name (@USA Today)… Read more
