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The Ravinia Coffee Station has introduced a new Sunday

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EditorialAs with every issue of Coffee Bean I have scoured the news feeds and the internet tio find you some interesting articles from around the coffee world from machines to beans to roasts and not forgetting plantations.

In this issue Brazil coffee-grower group’s output falls because of drought and then we have a strange article Smart phone or Coffee ? well I know my answer but do you know yours we also have a small article about Kenco as they launch their coffee versus gangs campaign and what

about in the UK I hear you say well a leading specialist calls for costa coffee shops to be removed from hospitals.

Now the Storage Hunters team visit the Cheshire-based roaster Black Circle Coffee and check out the facilities and try the coffee, then Bitcoin can buy you coffee well it was only a matter of time when digital currency would be taken in shops be it clothes shops or coffee shops something to keep an eye on I supose.

Lincon and york show off

600-kilo behemoth roasting system manufactured by Brambati at its headquarters.

Then of course we have found a gadget for you, your very own small roaster that you could have at home check out our gadget page and see the Zach and Dani’s small home roaster not really that exspensive online either if you look around.

Anyway that’s all enjoy the magazine till next time.

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The Ravinia Coffee Station has introduced a new Sunday morning perk to the neighbourhood: live music. Weather permitting, it’s a scene out of the classic Creedence Clearwater song. Down on the corner and out on the sidewalk, owner Josh Weisbart and a recurring line-up of musicians play acoustic music to lift the spirits of customers and passers-by. “It’s wonderful to find live music just happening,” said Laura Davis Sherman of Highland Park. “It’s a really great pause in the week.”

The Ravinia Coffee Station, 723 St. John’s Ave. in Highland Park, opened November 2013.

Weisbart, who plays guitar and mandolin, bills himself as “a casual musician.” Taking his cue from the summer-long Ravinia Festival, Weisbart said he “always intended for music to be part of the big picture” of the to-go coffee shop located on the corner of St. Johns and Roger Williams Avenues. “Music has the ability to bring people together,” he said.

The Sunday morning jam sessions last from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., not typically musician’s hours. Weisbart does not only get a little help from his friends. He has also encouraged young musicians to join in.

The music, “appropriate for Sunday morning in the neighborhood,” Weisbart said, includes folk music and bluegrass. Selections range from a sing-along of Simon and Garfunkle’s “Homeward Bound” to a Mumford & Sons hit.

Music and coffee shops are a good brew, Weisbart observed. Both, he said, are very social. “Music is a great way to start the day. It really gets me in a good mood.”

And it’s catching on. One listener recorded a snippet of the music on his smartphone. Forwarding it on, he could be heard urging the recipient, “Wake up and come out here.”

Highland Park coffee shop offers live outdoor music

Coffee growers ÃO PAULO— associated with Brazil’s Cocapec cooperative will be producing 10% less in 2014 than they had forecast at the start of the year this is due to a drought that has reduced the size of the beans, a cooperative official has said.

The cooperative’s farmers will produce 1.35 million 132-pound bags of coffee in 2014, instead of the 1.5 million they were expecting to grow before the drought set in.

Rainfall in some parts of Minas Gerais and São Paulo states, which together produce more than half of Brazil’s coffee, was about 70% less than normal in January and February.

It normally takes about 500 liters of coffee beans to reach the 132 pounds in a standard bag of coffee. Because the beans being produced by Cocapec’s farmers are smaller this year, it is taking closer to 550 liters to reach that weight, said Mr. de Paulo.

Brazil is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of coffee. Cocapec represents about 2,100 coffee growers in the Alta Mogiana region that straddles the border between São Paulo and Minas Gerais.

Brazilian crop agency Conab is forecasting a crop of 44.6 million bags this year, though other analysts say they expect it to be closer to 50 million bags.

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Brazil Coffee-Grower Group’s Output Falls Because of Drought

With over 1,790 stores in the UK and more than 1,000 internationally, (Total outlet count globally 2900) Costa Coffee is now ready to tap new markets in India by 2015. Costa is currently present in 14 cities across India including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Jaipur, Agra, Pune, Ludhiana etc.

Judd Williams, Regional Director, Middle East and Asia informed: “Currently, with over 100+ stores, we

will be adding outlets in existing areas of presence as well as evaluating new geographies in 2015. In India, Costa operates via franchise model and works in close partnership with long standing partner, Devyani International Limited.

Devyani International Limited is also the franchisee for Pizza Hut and KFC in India. It also has Pan India franchisee rights for Costa Coffee and Swensen’s Ice creams. With aggressive

growth strategy in place, Devyani International Limited is committed to being a people centric, customer focused and process driven operations, striving for excellence with a turnaround mentality. To serve the best coffee in the true Italian style, Costa focuses on quality control at every stage of the coffee making process from bean to cup. In the UK, the brand has its own roastery to ensure a unique blend that is perfect every time.

Costa Coffee to evaluate new geographies

Smartphone users in the UK seem to prefer their devices over their morning coffee as they reach out for their Smartphone or tablet within five minutes of waking up.A recent survey reveals that within 15 minutes of getting out of bed, nearly 67 per cent of 18-24 year younger adults are busy on Facebook YouTube or the latest game.

The survey was conducted on 4,000 people recently.

According to Mr. David Taylor, a director at Deloitte, mobile phones had clearly become an addiction for many and had led to some people looking to undergo a digital detox. The influx of people at “digital detox”

camps smartphone-addicted persons give up their devices to experience without their favorite YouTube or Latest Game.

The survey findings revealed that one in six users picked up the device over 50 times a day.The most intensive users were young adults checking their device on average 53 times a day - some even as much as 100 times a day.

The study further revealed that most smartphone owners first checked their text messages, but 25 per cent of users checked their email first and 14 per cent logged on to social networks. The Deloitte data shows 13 per cent of individuals used their smart phones 100 times on a daily basis.

At the other end of the spectrum, 65-75 year-olds, on average, used their devices a just a mear 13 times daily. According to Jodi Birkett, TMT partner at Deloitte, mobile phones had clearly become something of an addiction for many and had led to some people looking to unplug their devices and undergo a digital detox. According to the head of technology, media and telecommunications research Paul Lee, at Deloitte, the smart phone had rapidly become the device that many of us could not live without.

Mmmm well personally mines my Coffee first got to have it.

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Coffee contains substances such as antioxidants, B vitamins, and minerals that are quite good for you. Functional nutritionist Andrea Nakayama said in an online chat that if coffee is “not overly processed (heated and treated), and made [produced] in a way that is supportive, it can provide some good immune support.”

However, it is important to understand that when we drink a cup of coffee, our bodies also have a series of chemical reactions that are less than optimal for us, especially if we have “adrenal issues, upper GI struggles, and also liver detoxification challenges,” according to Nakayama. When we drink coffee, it helps us feel more alert, focused,

and driven. This is because it encourages the release of dopamine and adrenaline in the body by blocking the neurotransmitter adenosine.

Adenosine is released from our brains throughout the hours we are awake and is responsible for some very important jobs, such as calming internal inflammation the root of most chronic diseases—transferring energy on a cellular level, and encouraging proper heart function, Nakayama says.

So it turns out there is a big price to pay when you get the rush coffee has to offer. This rush is wear and tear on our body at a cellular level.

Even if you enjoy only one cup of coffee in the morning,

it may still affect you at night. This is because the suppression of adenosine released throughout the day disrupts sleep at night because one of its jobs is to promote a good night’s sleep.

So if you are wondering whether coffee is a suitable drink for you, be observant the next time you enjoy a cup of joe and pay attention to how you feel the rest of the day.

Did you suffer heartburn, indigestion, anxiety, heart palpations, insomnia, or anger? These could very well be related to the coffee. After all, there are consequences both positive and negative to everything we do and eat.

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The latest campaign launched by Kenco is the Coffee vs Gangs campaign looks to promote ethical values as part of its project which has seen 20 young people at risk of entering a gang and giving them education and training to become a coffee farmer.

The project has been devised by The Mondel’z International brand with creative partner JWT. A film telling the story about how teenagers went from being on the brink of crime to coffee farmer is now running across TV and cinema as well online from

August 18th.

Emad Nadim, brand manager, Kenco said it is a potentially life-changing project on which the brand is embarking.

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Coffee v Gangs campaign Launched By Coffee Giant Kenco

TV’s Jesse McClure of Storage Hunters fame popped into Stoke for a coffee with Cheshire-based roaster Black Circle Coffee after the company’s social media feed caught his eye.

Jesse, who is on a tour of the UK, sent a tweet at the end of 2013 to owner Mark Slinger saying he’d like to meet up as he loved the company’s distinctive branding and its straight to the consumer marketing strategy. And as he was visiting the country for the first time in 2014, it seemed like the perfect time to arrange a get together.

“I’m a huge coffee fan and drink it every day. But I hate the way coffee has become now, where quality has been forgone for convenience, particularly among the bigger brands who dominate

the high street,“ said Jesse.

“So when I saw Black Circle’s Twitter feed and its emphasis on delivering fresh, quality coffee I wanted to know more. As I was coming to England in the spring, I suggested we meet up so I could see for myself who the guys behind the business are, and if I could help in some way. I love the branding too as my favourite colours are black and white, as you can see from my wardrobe on the TV show!

“I like a nice strong coffee with a touch of cream and occasionally I like to add a good hazelnut syrup. Since I’ve been staying in the UK though, I’ve not had a single cup as I’ve been trying to get into the English way of life by drinking lots of tea as we only really use it to help you feel better when you’re

not well back home.“

The Storage Hunters star, which can be seen on Freeview TV channel Dave, was so impressed by Mark and his team’s passion for coffee he offered to put his name to a new blend to be sold by Black Circle, which will be known as Sideburns Bold after Jesse’s trademark facial hair.

“It was a real honour to meet Jesse and tell him about our business. He was a lovely guy and when he pledged his support to us, I couldn’t believe it. At first I wasn’t sure if the invitation was genuine but once it appeared it was, I’ve been really excited waiting for the day to come as I’m a massive Storage Hunters fan!“ said Mark Slinger.

TV’s Jesse McClure of Storage Hunters fame Cheshire-based roaster Black Circle Coffee

Coffee served in Glasgow is stronger than brews in Italy and Spain, according to new research.

Researchers in all three countries said their findings had implications for people who needed to watch their caffeine intake.

They said counting how many cups you drank could not be used to measure how much caffeine you were consuming.

Caffeine can reduce fatigue and some disease symptoms but it can also induce anxiety.

Earlier research by the University of Glasgow had found wide variations in caffeine levels in the city’s west end cafes.

Now they have joined scientists in Parma and Pamplona, testing more than 100 espressos and some cappuccinos and instant coffees.

An article recently in the journal Food and Function, quoted some Glaswegian brews were the strongest.

They warned regular coffee drinkers could exceed their daily recommended caffeine limit without knowing it.

The research said coffee in Scotland usually used more heavily-roasted beans and the serving sizes were larger.

The amount of caffeine per serving of an espresso in Scotland ranged

from 72mg to 212mg.

This compared to a range of 73mg to 135mg per serving for Italian espressos and 97mg to 127mg in Spain.

The caffeine content of cappuccinos purchased in Scotland varied from 101mg to 275mg per cup.

Pregnant women are advised not to have more than 200mg of caffeine per day.

Researchers recommended “readily available information on bean variety and caffeine levels”.

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Coffee served in Glasgow is stronger than other parts of the world.

EVERETT — “What’s Bitcoin?” the woman asked, nodding her head at the “Bitcoin accepted” sign posted on the drive-through coffee stand.

The woman working the stand, Sheri Brisky, had a ready reply, one she’s repeated countless times since the sign went up recently.

“It’s a digital currency,” she said, and then explained how Bitcoin combines decentralization, encryption and transparency to create a secure, reliable system for digitally capturing and conveying value. Looking up from her Mini Cooper, the customer appeared a little lost.“It’s really not as confusing as it sounds,” Brisky said.

In early July, Marathon Coffee became one of the first and possibly the first retail businesses in the area to take Bitcoin, a technology that from a user’s perspective works like digital money.

After quietly starting in 2009, it has grabbed headlines in recent years. Customers can use bitcoins to pay for goods and service from Overstock.com and the Sacramento Kings, among others. At least one college is taking tuition payment in bitcoins. A relief fund set up following the Oso mudslide took donations in bitcoins. They can be exchanged for just about every major currency. Individuals can choose from a wide variety of ways to create digital wallets to store bitcoins.

Transactions are often done using a smartphone and unique visual identifiers called QR codes. Unlike credit and debit cards, bitcoin transactions do not reveal any information about the consumer. But all that information is pulled up every time you swipe a debit card at the grocery store or enter a credit card number into a website. Malicious hackers have exploited that weakness. For example, they stole a huge amount of personal financial information by infecting cash registers at Target stores with malicious software.

Advocates say Bitcoin will change how people conduct transactions great and small, from buying a cup of coffee to executing a will. Skeptics have raised a raft of questions and criticisms, including Bitcoin’s legality and potential susceptibility to currency speculation. It has attracted the attention of everyone from actor Ashton Kutcher, who last year invested in a Bitcoin-related company, to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who last year called it “evil.”

For all that attention, Bitcoin is slowly making its way to main street and places like coffee stands in blue-collar Everett. It was Marathon Coffee co-owner Jim Ruble’s idea to start taking bitcoins.

“He’s a geek,” Brisky, 51, said affectionately. Ruble, 49, has a background in engineering and had been

following Bitcoin from a distance for several years. He started paying much closer attention late last year, when the exchange value of a single bitcoin shot up to about $1,200. It has since come down; recently it was just over $600.

Despite all the buzz, he wasn’t convinced Bitcoin was viable until something happened in February that grabbed headlines around the world: Hackers stole bitcoins worth about $400 million at the time from the largest online exchange, Mt. Gox.

Some quickly said the heist highlighted the system’s problems, and it likely scared off many casual observers. The exchange value of bitcoins fell against the dollar, but the market didn’t collapse. People continued using it.

Marathon Coffee finally had its first customer paying with Bitcoins recently. A Canadian traveller staying at a nearby hotel paid about 0.0067 of a bitcoin equivalent to $4.25 at the time for a white chocolate mocha.

“I remember the first time I used an ATM; it seemed so foreign. You put in this plastic card and it spits out cash. Before, you had to go in and talk with a person. That’s where Bitcoin is now,” he said. “It took a few years, but nearly every retailer takes debit cards now.”

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One of Europe’s largest private-label roasting and packaging companies Lincoln & York,, has just installed this 600-kilo behemoth manufactured by Brambati at its North Linconshire, UK headquarters.The companies drum roaster is the largest-capacity roaster

in the UK that we know of, and will allow for doubling the company’s production. Just To give you an idea of what this will

mean, Lincoln & York was already operating with four Brambati roasters that gave it capacity to roast 3,600 kilos per hour.

To make way for this giant, Lincoln & York also outfitted a “contingency roastery,” including a separate roaster, packaging equipment and additional office space on a standalone building adjacent to the headquarters.

A spokes person from the company said “Our customer base has massively diversified over the last five years and our new roaster and contingency roastery are just two of the ways we are responding to this and preparing for future growth,”

Lincoln & York Managing

Director James Sweeting, who founded the company in 1994 along with Simon Herring, said in a company announcement. “We couldn’t be more excited to be pushing the start button on this

piece of equipment.”

Yes, that would have to be a rush.

I can imagine the coffee smell.

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Drum roaster is the largest-capacity roaster in the UK

A West Country consultant who specialises in weight loss has called for a ban on Costa coffee shops which offer sugar-laden drinks and cakes in hospitals. Dr Sally Norton works at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and South mead Hospital, which both have Costa coffee shops and vending machines.

She said hospitals should promote independent food producers which provide healthy snacks instead “As a weight loss surgeon, I find it frustrating and, frankly, embarrassing to spend time in clinic, explaining to my patients how sugary drinks and snacks are one of the biggest drivers of obesity, when I know that just outside in our hospital foyer are

not one, but two Costa coffee shops, as well as vending machines stocked full of coke and chocolate.

“When I try to grab a quick coffee from Costa, an obedient employee always tries to tempt me into buying one of their huge, sugar-laden and calorific cakes to go with it - hard to resist after a stressful morning in theatre or a busy night

on-call.”

A spokesman for the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the BRI, said they researched what staff and the public wanted before starting a competitive tendering exercise for a restaurant and shops.

He said: “We were able to transform the old dark and dingy entrance to the BRI with a light and airy Welcome Centre that has transformed the way staff, visitors and patients feel about entering the hospital.”

As you travel around the country you will see more of the new Costa vending machines serving up Americano to late with sugar on the side to help yourself with as many sugars as you would like.

Also myself on a recent trip to hospital in Liverpool I noticed Coffee shops in most Liverpool hospitals as you walk in, and to me the smell of that fresh coffee is just impossible to resist.

A West Country consultant calls for a ban Costa coffee shops in hospitals

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HEARTLESS thieves stole cash from the till of a church-run coffee shop in Tunbridge Wells.

The Manna coffee-shop, run by the Holy Trinity with Christ Church was burgled and the volunteers who run the café are appalled that their hard work to raise funds for local charities.

Not only has the break-in set the fundraising back but manager Alexander Whittle estimates that it caused damage that will cost four times the sum that was taken to repair.

Mr Whittle said: “We think it happened on Saturday morning, between 3am and 6am, because that was the only time that the security camera was turning the other way.

“They smashed their way in and managed to pull down the ceiling in the process so they must have been quite amateurish.

“The charity gives money to a slum in an area of Nairobi. I have been there and it is one of the most poverty stricken places in the world. We support a charity called Compassion who works for schools and hospitals, training staff in the country. The building is completed but all the profit goes to the project so it has hit it hard.”

Mr Whittle said that one of the saddest things about the theft was the destructive nature of it and how much damage was caused to the building. He said: “The level of violence that was used to smash open doors was shocking. No

sane person would have done it.”

The café opened two years ago but Mr Whittle has worked there since April and said that he was inspired to get involved because of the good work that the café does. He said: “It was one of these things I wanted to get involved in: the passion people have to go there is inspiring - they give time to make it work.”

A spokesman for Kent Police said: “A burglary was reported at the Christ Church Centre on 28 June. Offenders forced a window to access the premises and stole cash from the coffee shop. No arrests have yet been made but enquiries are on-going.”

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As Costa increases it’s coffee shop presence in the UK and across the globe the shops in the UK will soon be the social hubs rather than your local pub as pubs disappear coffee shops open and I can see us ending up with a European coffee café bar situation where you can buy coffee food and alcohol all in the one social place.

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LONG ISLAND, NY (July 22, 2014) – Aerosmith’s drumming legend, Joey Kramer, is Rockin’ & Roastin’ in New York. Today, Kramer announces that leading Long Island supermarket brand King Kullen will carry his organic coffee line at all stores in the region.

The King Kullen Grocery Company, founded in 1930, is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as “America’s First Supermarket.” Spanning three generations, King Kullen has remained family owned and operated. With 39 locations throughout New York’s Long Island area, King Kullen is committed to offering its customers the best selection, quality, convenience and value.

“I’m amped to be Rockin’ & Roastin’ with King Kullen,” says Kramer. “As a native New Yorker, I know King Kullen as a top grocery store and I’m excited to bring my coffee to even more people in the Empire State.”

Joe Brown, Senior Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer at King Kullen, says, “We have a long-standing commitment to providing our customers with exceptional quality, service and value. Joey has a great product in Rockin’ & Roastin’ and we think it’ll be a big hit with our customers.”

Kramer’s Rockin’ & Roastin’ organic coffee line comes in a trio of small-batch brews

that represent Kramer’s favorite coffee-producing regions: a medium roast from Guatemala; a medium-dark roast from Ethiopia; and, a dark roast hailing from Sumatra. Recently Kramer introduced a 40oz option available at select wholesale stores and soon, he will debut a single-serve option.

Rockin’ & Roastin’ now is available at all 39 King Kullen locations and retails for $7.99-$8.99 per 12-ounce bag. For more information on King Kullen, please visit: www.kingkullen.com. For more information on Rockin’ & Roastin’, please visit: www.rockinandroastin.com.

Joey Kramer Gets Rockin’ & Roastin’ with King Kullen

Pests and diseases such as, coffee rust the coffee berry borer and leaf spot disease could make a big comeback in the coffee farms due to drastic climate change, a scientist warned the 25th International Conference on Coffee Science in the Colombian city of Armenia.

The affect to coffee is thought to be very gradual as the climate changes, but some shocking situations are being reported as a result of really drastic, chaotic changes, such as very little or too much rain,” researcher

Peter Baker of the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International, or CABI, said According to Baker, coffee berry borer, coffee rust and leaf spot disease could again represent a threat to the world’s coffee growers.

Researchers have now said at the close of the recent 25th International Conference on Coffee science said that the increase in these pests and diseases, which could occur in a matter of months or years, is due to variations in temperature

and the lack of funds for monitoring and researching these phenomena. On the African continent, particularly in East Africa, frequent droughts affect coffee crops, while Latin American plantations are being damaged by flooding and torrential rains.

The expert recommended the collection of rainwater along with the strategic use of shade for the care of coffee plants and the protection of the soil, among other measures to mitigate the impact of climate change.

Climate change to increase pests, disease in coffee crops,

expert warns

said.

Coffee Bean Gadget Section

This large machine is unique among roasters and probably cost the Zach and Dani’s the manufacturers a lot to develop and to build! It has two fans driven off the same motor, a belt-pulley system to drive the cast metal auger that agitates the coffee, and a sort of catalytic converter to help reduce smoke emissions while roasting.

The auger spins very fast and agitates the beans very thoroughly during the roast cycle. There is very little airflow through the roast chamber during the roast cycle so some chaff gets mixed in with the coffee while roasting. Even the smallest pieces of chaff do not leave the roast chamber for the chaff collector. While this may not look good, it really doesn’t hurt the quality of the roast at all.

You will want to get the roasted

coffee out of the roast chamber as soon as the machine stops, because the slight air flow does not completely cool the coffee. The beans are at about at 100 to 130 degrees after the Z&D cooling cycle. This is not too bad, but what you really want is rapid with in the first minute after the roast cycle. Otherwise, the coffee will continue to roast slightly into the cooling cycle, and indeed you need to learn to stop the roast early to take into account the additional roasting that will occur when the heating element is off.

The roaster is really easy to use except for the chaff ollector seal at the top of the unit. You need to pay attention to getting this properly seated or chaff will leak out and the roast heat will be lost. The best way is to push the chaff collector in the top and work your little finger around the seal to seat it, then seat the entire top onto the roast chamber and base.

This roaster is a great starter for someone who hasn’t been exposed to roasting before. It is durable and of high quality, and

probably low maintenance too. There is a belt drive tensioner in the base of the machine and this needs to be engaged to drive the auger better -the machine may squeal a bit with it engaged but this is better than having the auger jam during the roast

The component parts used are said to be of highest quality.

So Coffee is still the best drink in the world and even better when you roast it yourself..

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