This blog usually covers topics such as how to brew coffee, how to clean coffee makers, and where to buy cheap coffee beans. Now I think it's time to talk about what you pour your coffee in before you drink it.  Believe it or not, there are golden rules to coffee mugs.  One simple little tea cup is not going to do the job for a serious coffee drinker.

If you are like me, then you like to drink your morning cup of coffee out of different kinds of mugs.  Here is a list of the proper usage of various coffee mugs in different situations. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some vintage TV commercials of Wilkins coffee that aired way before the muppet show and other Jim Henson movies.

I know these were posted around the web about two years ago but I found them again and thought they would be worth a second look. Read the rest of this entry »

Vintage coffee ads have conditioned us over the years to buy a particular brand of coffee by either through a catchy jingle,  catchphrase/tag line or a combination of both. The addition of bad acting stuck into a 15 to 20 second television ad makes it much easier to determine the video list of the worst vintage coffee commercials.

In their day the top four advertisers were Folgers Coffee, The Maxwell House Coffee Company, Sanka Instant Coffee, and Nescafe's Tasters Choice Instant Coffee.  Take a walk with me down memory lane and tell me if I am wrong in these being the top four worst vintage coffee commercials. Read the rest of this entry »

I started following this person on Twitter and loved his or her tweets about random things about coffee.  Sometimes the tweet will be about the history of coffee, incorporating the coffee bean into a dos command for computing, or just some clever coffee humor.

I tried to see if the coffeeturtle has a website or anyway of contacting other than a tweet.  I am so impressed with this persons obvious love for coffee that I have an rss feed to all of his/her tweets at the bottom of this page in the center. Check it out if you like coffee you will enjoy this.

Vince vs. Billy Mays

All of this talk about making and drinking coffee and nobody has mentioned yet what to do about the spills and coffee stain removal.  I know I usually down about three big cups of coffee daily.  Depending on how I take it that day I will either spill coffee pouring it, sloshing the spoon on the counter from stirring in cream, or just get real clumsy and spill some while walking up or down stairs.

Most recommendations for cleaning these kinds of coffee spills is getting it while the coffee stain is still wet.  Other techniques include using dish soap, warm water and blotting up stains.  Here are three resources for getting the complete step by step methods down.

http://housekeeping.about.com/od/stainremoval/a/coffeestains.htm
http://www.doityourself.com/stry/coffee
http://www.mrscleannw.com/tips/coffee-stain-removal.html

My recommendation for coffee stain removal would be to buy a big tub of OxyClean from Billy Mays and a ShamWow from Vince and you're good from now until the end of time when it comes to coffee stains.

The Associated Press reports that Vassalboro, Maine has baristas with bare chests at the Grand Topless Coffee Shop

When you order coffee in this place cup size has more than one meaning.  The Grand Topless Coffee Shop has a community in Maine caffeined up on the idea of having waiters and waitresses serving brew in the buff.  The Kennebec Journal has the full story.