March 2010
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Starbucks VIA™ Taste Challenge
This weekend 12th-15th March Starbucks UK are inviting people into their stores to try the new Starbucks VIA coffee and see if you can tell the difference between that and regular filter coffee. You might be surprised how good Starbucks VIA is but if not you will still get a voucher for a free Starbucks drink.  Check out the full details at www.starbuckscoffee.co.uk
Mar 9th
February 2010
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October 2009
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Oct 1st
September 2009
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Starbucks Via's big drive
After only being available in certain cities the new instant coffee from Starbucks, Starbucks VIA, is being launch nationally in the USA at the end of the month.  Building up to that event they have updated or created a YouTube Channel with daily videos of the Starbucks VIA Road Trip. They are of course also on Twitter (http://twitter.com/starbuckslive) so you can keep up to date with their...
Sep 21st
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April 2009
2 posts
Coffee and connecting
From the start coffee houses weren’t just about coffee, they were also a meeting place for men (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women’s_Petition_against_Coffee) to discuss the important things of the day. Hundreds of years later that has not changed, we still meet socially in coffee houses, some people work almost exculsively in them (http://jkontherun.com/category/coffee-break/) and...
Apr 24th
VIA launch and Starbucks.co.uk
After all the media coverage, blog posts and online video taste testing the new Starbucks VIA coffee has been released. Its being released in three cities to start, Seattle, Chicago and also London, which I was very happy to hear about. It is so normal for any new release whether it be coffee, movie or technology to be US only first, it’s nice the release is somewhat international. ...
Apr 1st
March 2009
3 posts
Why so hot?
When I go into a coffee shop to buy a coffee it is because I want to drink a cup of coffee and I want to drink it now, not in 20 minutes when it has cooled down. My coffee of choice is an Americano. I like simple things and an Americano is just that, espresso and hot water. And it’s the hot water that some places seem, to me anyway, to be getting it wrong. The worst offender is Costa Coffee...
Mar 9th
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Mar 4th
'Can I help the next person?'
Yes, they are ready to take my order….most of us love to hear that when we go into our favourite coffee shop. Whether it be a family owned local store or a big international company we all go there for one thing.  Good pure coffee. And that’s exactly what you will find here, good pure coffee information. People say ‘blog about what you know’ and I think I know coffee :-)
Mar 3rd