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Easy Brewing: Cold Brew
| Brewing a cup of coffee isn’t hard: you could throw coffee grounds into hot water, wait a few minutes, call it coffee and drink it. But it wouldn't exactly be the best cup of coffee out there. Luckily there are legions of coffee nerds out there who have figured out exact ways to brew near perfect cups of coffee. The issue is these methods usually require a precise attention to detail, expensive equipment and more time out of your morning routine than most people are willing or able to give. For die hard coffee nerds... Keeping It Local: Milk from Hatchland Farms
In our last post, we talked about how milk was first added to coffee and it's ability to cover up less than tasty coffee. But having milk in your coffee shouldn’t just be a way to cover up bad coffee, it should be it’s own way of enjoying coffee. If you want to make the most of your coffee, you should make the most of your milk as well. Especially when we talk about espresso and get into lattes and cappuccinos where milk is most of the drink, whatever milk you’re choosing, it should be good stuff! When Milk Met Coffee
Milk and coffee. It seems like a no brainer, right? Imagine the complaints a coffee shop would get if it refused to offer cream to its customers. Heck, here in New England, walk into any Dunkin’ Donuts and ask for a regular coffee and you’ll be getting coffee with cream and sugar. When you have coffee, milk is an expectation. So it might surprise you that milk and coffee haven't always been an expected combination.
We don’t have any specific dates or fantastical stories of accidentally spilling cream into the... Art at Arabica: Gay Freeborn, Liese Gauthier and Sally Jo Pollard
Currently we have art from three New England-based artists in our stores. If you haven't had a chance to stop in and see the artwork, it's a pretty good excuse to visit! But if you have seen it, you might be wondering a little about the artists.
The large oil paintings of animals at both locations are by Gay Freeborn. Freeborn comes from an artistic background, and considers herself lucky to not only have a family that was both interested in and supportive of the arts, but also a high school... Off The Menu: Beware, Here There Be PumpkinsMention flavored coffee to any coffee drinker and you'll either get a reminiscing smile or a bored eye-role. Anyone who's had more than a few cups of joe is familiar with this part of the coffee world, a suburb of rundown nostalgia not unlike the an 80's theme park that still trudges along unchanged: think vanilla, hazelnut, blueberry, Irish cream. Those are the coffees I remember seeing in the aisle at the grocery store, the first coffees I remember liking (okay, finding slightly less disgusting). And those are now the coffees that I and so many other coffee geeks...
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