Category: Blog
Pabst Blue Ribbon Launches Coffee-Flavored Beer
The Milwaukee-based brewer has been rolling out coffee-flavored beer in a number of markets since early July. The brewery, which was founded in 1844, is known by PBR and is calling the new quaff hard coffee. It is a caffeinated, malt beverage with five percent alcohol by volume that contains real Arabica and Robusta coffee beans, milk and vanilla flavoring.
The drink does not actually contain beer, but is rather a malted beverage mixed with real java. Hard Coffee will be tested in five states to start. Those include Pennsylvania, Maine, New Jersey, Florida, and Georgia. The beer received a 3.833 rating, out of five, on the beer-rating site Uptappd. The company said, in a press release, that the beer is “designed to meet the needs of the next generation of American consumers.”
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Blue Bottle Coffee: How a struggling clarinet player used $15,000 in credit card debt to launch a $700 million brand
There are only two things James Freeman has ever really wanted to do: play the clarinet and make coffee.
Today, Freeman is best known as the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee, the premium coffee chain with the simple, yet stylish, blue logo that adorns more than 75 upscale cafes around the world where you can buy a roughly $5 drip coffee made from high-quality single-origin, freshly roasted artisanal beans. In 2017, Swiss food giant Nestle bought a majority stake in Freeman’s company in a deal that reportedly values Blue Bottle at more than $700 million.
But before Freeman was the founder of a company that is set to roast more than 2.6 million pounds of coffee beans this year, he was a struggling classical musician roasting his own fresh beans as a hobby.
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Hydration: Why It’s So Important
You should drink water every day. Most people have been told they should drink 6 to 8, 8-ounce glasses of water each day. That is a reasonable goal. However, different people need different amounts of water to stay hydrated. Most healthy people can stay well hydrated by drinking water and other fluids whenever they feel thirsty. For some people, fewer than 8 glasses may be enough. Other people may need more than 8 glasses each day. If you are concerned that you are not drinking enough water, check your urine. If your urine is usually colorless or light yellow, you are well hydrated. If your urine is a dark yellow or amber color, you may be dehydrated.
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High Levels Of Arsenic Found In Bottled Water Sold At Walmart And Target
If you buy your groceries at Walmart or Target, think again! For instance, tests from the Center for Environmental Health found high levels of arsenic in certain bottled waters. They found arsenic in bottled water brands Peñafiel and Starkey. The bottled water contains higher arsenic levels than tap water. Therefore, they had high enough levels to violate California’s guidelines.
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Here’s Some Money Advice: Just Buy the Coffee
An industry of experts exists to advise us on how to spend our money. Some of those experts are truly on your side and sincerely want to help you be better with money. Some of those experts are … not exactly on your side, and are perhaps more interested in riling us up about our spending. It can be difficult to tell them apart, and it makes our already-fraught relationship with money even worse.
Earlier this month CNBC generated an outrage cycle about money advice by tweeting this story, in which the personal finance professional Suze Orman claimed that buying coffee means “you are peeing $1 million down the drain as you are drinking that coffee.” (Even the legendary writer Susan Orlean weighed in.) Earlier this summer, USA Today generated a similar negative buzz when it published an article from the money website The Motley Fool that claimed Americans waste an average of $18,000 a year on “nonessential items,” which they said included personal grooming, gym memberships, restaurants, coffee and lunch. These are all on top of similarly shaming articles that tell us we’re not rich because we sleep in and travel; because we buy shoes and jeans; and, of course, because we buy too much coffee.
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There’s a Harry Potter-themed coffee shop in LA and it’s actually pretty cool
Nimbus Coffee sits just a few blocks from L.A. Live, and the whimsical new café is dishing out lattes, pastries, giggle waters and vegan shakes with all the trappings of a trip into the world of J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series.
5 of the Best Coffee-Infused Spirits and How to Use Them
Once upon a time, if you wanted to mix a serious cocktail with a caffeine kick, options were limited to an Irish coffee or espresso Martini. The coffee-infused spirits landscape was equally sparse, consisting primarily of Tia Maria and Kahlua.
Those times have passed. As Americans have become more particular about our morning cup or afternoon cold brew, the coffee liqueur category is thriving. Options range from artisanal liqueurs to surprisingly tasty coffee-infused vodka. Here are five of our favorite coffee-infused spirits, and how to use them.
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Can Coffee Really Help You Burn Fat?
Saying that “coffee can help you burn fat” sounds a lot more compelling than “caffeine can promote BAT function at thermoneutrality,” where BAT stands for “brown adipose tissue” and has nothing to do with the Batman. But are these two statements really equivalent?
To understand and properly interpret these two studies, it is important to know the difference between two types of fat cells in your body, brown and white, and what brown can do for you. As I have described previously for Forbes, a white fat cell is more like a thumb drive for fat, containing and storing a single large oily droplet. A brown fat cell does more than just store fat. In addition to containing multiple smaller oil droplets, a brown fat cell is brown because it has many “chestnut-colored” mini-furnaces called mitochondria. These tiny engines can burn up the small oil droplets to generate heat.