My vintage Vespa, Perlita, and I will be at the Motorcycle Spring Show April 9 & 10 as part of a Women in Motorcycling Exhibit.
First, click here to save a couple dollars on your admission to the Motorcycle Spring Show (the deal disappears March 31st so buy your tix now). Then click on the title to go to the full post and learn more.
Most of us don’t pay attention to this and don’t clean our grinder regularly. Over time, coffee oils and residue build up and can start to affect both the taste and performance of your grinder. Darker and oilier coffee beans are especially bad for gumming up your grinder. (Take note Globetrotter fiends!)
The good news is that cleaning a grinder is quick and easy. Read on for our tips - and we've got you covered, whether your grinder is blade or burr.
Not sure what you’re in the mood for? Are you reading through our coffee selections and thinking “they all sound good!”? Well there is a solution!
We created the Sparkplug Coffee Sampler so you can try them all. It puts together generous 200 g bags (almost 1/2 lb. for you old school peeps) of our 3 signature blends plus the current feature coffee. That’s 800 g of coffee altogether - almost 2 pounds and enough of each to get a good sense of how you like each one.
To celebrate, we're custom building a special blend - Up Shift - just for the Motorcycle Supershow. We'll have samples to try at the show and you'll be able to take a bag home or order some for delivery after the show.
Click on the title for more info and to download a coupon to save on admissions.
Full Throttle. That seems to be the speed we're running at around year end. So we mixed up a blend of beans to match our mood. Full on, big bold flavours. Spicy and a tad quirky.
The super special flavours of the Full Throttle blend come from exotic Monsooned Malabar beans from India. Then we add in a melange of beans from around the coffee world - including our beloved Ethiopian, of course - to get just the right balance.
If you loved our Hey Honey feature last year with the honey processed beans from Costa Rica, you won't want to miss Full Throttle.
We would love the Top 100 Project even if film buffs Ryan and Bev didn't develop awesome ads for Sparkplug Coffee to start every episode. Each one tailored to the film being reviewed. Too cool.
Listen up here or click on this blog post title to read more!
¡Ay, que rico!
That's a common expression heard in Latin America that means: so rich, so tasty, so delicious. And it is also the name of our feature coffee - a delicious rich and smooth blend.
Que Rico is made of a mix of medium roasted and darker roasted coffees, all from Central America and the northern part of South America. Think of the hills of Costa Rica and the mountains of Colombia. Small lot purchases with limited availability.
Is your coffee a commodity crop? Or is it a specialty product?
Traditionally, coffee has been a commodity product almost exclusively grown in poor tropical countries. Farmers sell their crops to local cooperatives or wholesalers who then sell them on for commodity coffees. Farmers of commodity crops are usually paid poorly and their workers can be in dire economic circumstances.
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