New Yorkers had a great time giggling at a new sort of subway map earlier this month. It looked just like the regular subway map only, instead of the real stops, the New York City Coffee map showed the best coffee shop found at each of those locations—unless that stop happened to be in Brooklyn or Queens.
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Here’s a map that shows you all the best places to get your coffee fix in New York, based on the subway line. How convenient!
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Ideally, what would you put in your beer? If you said, maple, bacon and coffee, then your dreams have come true my inebriated brother.
This Porter beer by Funky Buddha Brewery should make you very very happy. All of those flavors in a beer should add up to a very delightful drink. Here’s how they describe it:
Evoking a complete diner-style breakfast in a glass, Maple Bacon Coffee Porter is a complex beer with a multitude of flavors at play. It pours an opaque ebony brew with a frothy tan head. Aromas of sticky maple syrup, coffee, and cream creep forth from the glass. The mouth feel is luxuriously creamy, with layers of sweet malt, toffee, and roast giving way to waves of smoke, coffee, and salted chocolate. It finishes sticky, rich, and sweet, with the flavor of maple syrup lingering pleasantly on the tongue.
Well sign me up. Unfortunately, I don’t know if or when this beer will be available outside of their brewpub locations, but the company’s website should soon have the answers.
A Keurig is great when you want a single, solitary cup of coffee, but how many caffeine fiends do you know who stop after the first cup? Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ newest Keurig finally acknowledges the serving size most of us are used to, with a machine that brews a 30 ounce carafe.
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If you are as big a fan of crispy, crunchy bacon as I am all you will need to hear is this- Bacon Soap. If you need a bit more explanation, here it is. ThinkGeek has some hand soaps in bars that smell like manly food and drink. The hand soaps are available in three scents; the bacon scent we have seen before.
Made by Outlaw Soaps, the set of three scents include bacon, coffee, and whiskey. I can get behind the bacon-scented soap, it even looks like bacon with the red and white marbling. The coffee soap makes sense too, while I hate the taste of coffee, it smells pretty good.
The whiskey soap is the questionable one to me. I can only imagine explaining to a cop that pulls you over and smells whiskey that you just took a bath.
According to a 2013 survey, over eighty three percent of Americans drink coffee in the morning and the average citizen drinks multiple cups per day. Between the dark brew, the flavored lattes, the frozen caffeinated treats, and the whirling gadgets, coffee is now a thirty billion dollar industry. Coffee is big business and companies like Starbucks, Peets, and Folgers have spent gobs of money to get people to drink more of it. Despite all of that, the most expensive coffee probably can’t be found in your downtown coffee shop. No, the most expensive coffee in the world lives alongside feces in the intestinal gut of an Asian palm civet.
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I have my coffee. Your move, punk! I have been looking for a cool new mug, and I think this is the one. I don’t give a toss about the new Robocop reboot, just give me this mug.
This mug is made from ceramic and looks just like Robocop’s head. That’s all you need to know. Well, that and where we can buy one. Sadly, we may have to wait a while. It seems like the mug is only available for wholesale purchase right now. But soon, very soon it should make its way to retail channels and then it will be mine.
Bring me the head of Robocop and I shall drink coffee from it.
[via Chip Chick via That’s Nerdalicious]
How do you compete with a giant like Apple’s iPad? Well, if you are Samsung, you form a strategic alliance with the coffee company Illy. As a part of the deal Illy coffee shops will put Samsung’s latest tablets on display. That way, people can try them and then decide to buy them.
Illycaffè shops will have a Samsung display booth demonstrating the new tablets, like the Galaxy Note 10.1. It provides a relaxed environment where users can get to know the tablets. Customers visiting the Illy coffee shops will be assisted by ‘Samsung Angels’ who will demonstrate the tablets and its features. That just sounds weird. Unless they are like Victoria’s Secret angels. I’m all for that.
London’s Illy shop was the first to start with the service, but right now the tablets don’t have any special apps for the coffee shop except for the price list. The deal will also have some Illy coffee shops being set up in Samsung showrooms. Desperation or innovative thinking? You be the judge.
[via C|NET via New Launches]
If you think you drink a lot of coffee, think again. While the US might pride itself as being a nation fuelled by the stuff, it turns out that other countries beat it hands down.
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There’s a reason ancient tea-drinking cultures made ornate cast-iron kettles: They’re beautiful and functional, keeping brewed beverages at the right temperature for hours of soothing warmth. Copenhagen-based Norm Architects put this historic inspiration into the Thermo Kettle Jug to make a carafe that’s both pretty and pragmatic.
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