How Long To Steep French Press Coffee - A Step By Step Guide

If you’re a coffee lover, you’re probably always looking for a new brew and coffee to try. Or, for anyone new to the coffee world or set in their ways, you might be seeking a different but easy way of brewing delicious coffee.  That’s
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Espresso Vs Coffee Beans – Is there a Difference?

Esrpesso Shots - Coast to Coast CoffeeWe all know espresso. It’s a means of brewing coffee with pressurized hot water and it rivals sliced bread for ‘the best thing ever’. Espresso was invented by clever Italians and has since become a staple of coffee culture around the world. Many of our favourite drinks start with espresso: cappuccino, café latte and the flat white, for starters.

                       
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What Is Drip Coffee - Coffee Brewing Guide

What Is Drip Coffee - Coffee Brewing GuideWe live in a hectic world where everyone is constantly on the go. Although having a French press coffee for breakfast every morning would be great, it isn’t reasonable for many of us. The best way to get a quick cup of delicious…
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Coffee On An Empty Stomach - What Does It Do To You

Esrpesso Shots - Coast to Coast CoffeeThere are some mornings when it feels like you can’t quite function. You sleep through your alarm, forget your morning shower, dress in a hurry to get to work, and completely forget to eat breakfast. The morning rush has happened to us…
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Papua New Guinea: Tribal Coffee

Papua New Guinea Coffee - Coast to Coast CoffeePapua New Guinea (PNG) is an immense and sparsely populated country northeast of Australia. It’s still quite wild. Mountainous and verdant, the island’s stunningly fertile soil tends to produce coffees with a crisp citrus acidity and rich with flavours of chocolate and tropical fruit.

            
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Ethiopian Coffee Guide - Beans, Regions & Brewing Tips

If you are in the market for Ethiopian coffee, look no further. Coast to Coast Coffee has what you need for a delicious brew.
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Top 5 Health Benefits Of Consuming Organic Coffee

Green Coffee - Coast to Coast CoffeeIf you’re unsure whether you should be drinking organic coffee, we have some news you don’t want to miss.  There are many benefits to consuming organic coffee instead of products grown from chemically treated soil that can ultimately make you sick. Here we will highlight the top five we feel are the most important.
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3 Reasons You Should Be Buying Whole Bean Coffee

Whole Bean Coffee - Coast to Coast CoffeeDid you know that once your coffee bean is ground, it loses its flavour in a matter of minutes? When oxygen hits the bean's surface, it begins the staling process. When the bean is whole, it helps to keep the inside fresher for longer. What’s better for a coffee lover than drinking a hot cup of freshly roasted coffee first thing in the morning?
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How To Make Coffee With Kahlúa At Home - 3 Easy Recipes

Coffee with KalhuaWhat makes a delicious cup of fresh roasted coffee even better? Adding a bit of Kahlúa, of course!   If you enjoy your coffee morning, noon, or night, hot or cold, dark or light, then you will also love the smooth, rich, creamy, sweet taste of Kahlúa in your cup.


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How to Make Great Cold Brew at Home

Cold Brew - Coast to Coast CoffeeYou’ve probably seen jugs of cold brew at your local coffee shop. You may even have tried the chilled concoction. But what exactly is cold brew? Well, isn’t leftover coffee that you’ve put in the fridge—it’s coffee that’s made with cold water. 

            
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Bolivia: On the Rise

Bolivia Yungas Coffee - Coast to Coast CoffeeBolivia has long been synonymous with the coca plant. For millennia, indigenous farmers in Bolivia's soaring Andes grew the leafy bush in terraced mountain gardens. The leaf is sacred to the Inca and other mountain peoples, who steeped it for tea and chewed it for an extra energy boost up where the air is thin.

            
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The Value of a Daily Grind

Grind Degrees - Coast to Coast CoffeeWatching a barista grind, tamp, load and then let superheated water do its whistling work is something to look forward to. The rhythm, smell and sound of the espresso-making ritual forms a kind of dance that’s a pleasure to experience, as well as a lovely prelude to a delicious drink.
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Mexico: Right Down the Middle

Mexico Chiapas Coffee - Coast to Coast Coffee‘Mexico’ is not where everyone’s mind goes when they think ‘coffee’. With places like Colombia, Ethiopia and Peru in the limelight, poor old Mexico sometimes gets… (sniff) … forgotten. Yet Mexico is the 9th largest coffee producer in the world. 

                          
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Peru: Terroir in Abundance

Peru Coffee Terroir - Coast to Coast CoffeePeru is an extremely diverse country. From the green rainforest of the Amazon to the golden beaches of the Pacific Ocean, from the arid Atacama Desert to the snow-peaked Andes, it holds a huge variety of landscapes and climactic regions.

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Ethiopia: The Birthplace of Coffee

Ethiopia Highlands - Coast to Coast CoffeeCoffee is Ethiopia’s biggest export. It produces almost a billion pounds of coffee per year and over a tenth of its citizens work in coffee production. The word "coffee" even derives from Kaffa – the name of a place in the southwestern Ethiopian Highlands where coffee was first discovered.
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The Dope on Caffeine: Healthy or Unhealthy?

Caffeine - Coast to Coast CoffeeIt won’t come as a surprise to many that coffee contains caffeine. That’s a big part of the reason why people drink it: there’s nothing like a good cup of joe to wake you up in the morning. Of course, it’s delicious, too.

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Mycotoxins and Coffee: Should you be Worried?

Green Coffee - Coast to Coast CoffeeOur customers occasionally ask about mycotoxins – toxic chemicals that are the products of moulds on agricultural crops.  They probably would never have started asking about them if Bulletproof Coffee Company hadn’t centered a marketing campaign around their mycotoxin-free coffee.
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The Importance of Fair Trade Coffee

Fair Trade Coffee Cherries‘Fair Trade’. You see these words on packaging, along with ‘Certified Organic’. It’s something that we all like the sound of, but what does it really mean? Coffee is such a big part of most every morning that we rarely stop to think about where it comes from, or who grows it.

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Something Special Brewing with Red Door Shelter

Organic Coffee Cherries
Some time ago, my family and I started contributing coffee donations to Red Door Family Shelter, a Toronto organization that assists families, refugees and women fleeing violence. They have been around for a while—since 1982, when only one other shelter was operating in Toronto.
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The Importance of Organic Coffee

Organic Coffee CherriesOnce upon a time, all coffee was organically grown. Even when chemical fertilizers came on the scene, coffee continued to be organically grown for many decades. Since coffee bushes love shade, they were traditionally planted under existing forest canopy – an arrangement that worked well. The majority, if not all organic coffee, is still shade-grown. 

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How Roasting Changes Coffee Flavour Profile

Light vs. Dark Roast

Light, medium or dark roast? All coffee drinkers have their favourites, but many don’t know why—they just know when they like something. So I thought I would explain how roasting affects your favourite cup. 

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Nicaragua Café Femenino

Nicaragua Cafe FemeninoProduct Feature: Nicaragua Corcasan Café Femenino

We are excited to be offering a delicious new coffee from another Café Femenino certified cooperative in Nicaragua! This coffee is brought to you by the woman farmers of Corcasan.  


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Sumatra Café Femenino

Product Feature: Sumatra Café Femenino

We are super excited to be offering a fantastic new coffee from Sumatra. Not only is it delicious, but it’s also certified Café Femenino. This certification reflects a movement empowering women in remote coffee-growing regions – it ensures that the women coffee producers behind all Café Feminino products are recognized and fairly compensated for their work. 


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Just Say NO to Bad Hotel Coffee

Travel Coffee Kit

Over the years, I've taken many trips where I've been disappointed with the terrible coffee offered in hotels – especially the in room coffee. The last thing you want when you first wake up on vacation is bad coffee – yuck! Luckily, it's never been easier to make great coffee yourself while on the road. All you need are a few simple things. 


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