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Contributors: Briancee - Poet

Editorial

From Across The PondIsrael’s Rami Levi to

buy 20 percent of Cofix coffee chain

Löfbergs reaches its climate goals with

Bio LPG

Colombia Coffee Grows Better After Guerrillas

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Coffee enema byGwyneth Paltrow

Mcdonalds in Japan, have got it going on.

They have got three new coffees with toffee popcorn topping on.

Then Coca Cola have the sugar tax to beat. With some new low sugar drinks to meet.

Pret-A-Manga give people a real coffee deal and give you fifty pence off to use your own cup it’s a steal.

Löfbergs reaches its climate goals with Bio – LPG.

Then farmers protect coffee, for you and me.

Moose Maple Butter is certainly bringing a fair amount of sheen.

So that’s the editorial for issue 38 of coffee bean.

The Ed

From Across The Pond

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Israel’s Rami Levi Chain Stores (RMLI.TA) has agreed to buy 20 percent of coffee and snack chain Cofix Group (CFX.TA) at a company valuation of 105 million shekels ($30 million).

Rami Levi, one of Israel’s leading supermarket chains, also received a two-year option to increase its stake to 50.01 percent, Cofix said in a statement on Monday.

Founded in 2013 by

businessman Avi Katz and modeled on dollar stores in the United States, Cofix sells coffee and snacks such as sandwiches for 5 shekels ($1.40) each. Until Cofix came along, Israeli cafes routinely charged $3-$4 for a coffee.

Katz expanded into the super-market business with Super Cofix, a chain of discount mini-markets.

Rami Levi’s supermarkets are largely located on the

outskirts of urban centers and the Cofix deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, will give it a foothold in city centers.

The much larger Rami Levi will seek to improve Super-Cofix’s profitability and trade and credit terms with suppliers so that Super-Cofix will enjoy the same terms as Rami Levi.

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Israel’s Rami Levi to buy 20 percent of Cofix coffee

THEY ALL GOT DUNKING FOR VALENTINES (swap your flowers & chocs for Chocolate Orange Biscotti)

The Great British Biscotti Co is used to ripping up the rulebook when it comes to tweaking traditional biscotti traditions, which is why it’s now on a mission to make its Chocolate Orange Biscotti the MUST HAVE ‘after dinner dunker’ this Valentine’s.

Of course chocolate, flowers and ‘pop it in the oven’ ready meals are three of the most popular accessories of the modern lothario and yet with Not On The High Street, Ocado, Wyevale & Dobbies all ranging Great British Biscotti fayre over the coming days and weeks, there’s now no reasons not to add a pack of Dorset’s finest coffee friendly biscuits to your ‘wooing’ensemble.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE BISCOTTI

Chocolate orange is quite possibly the last word in indulgent biscuit dunking, a rugged, no-nonsense treat that refuses to buckle or crumble in the face of rich, uncompromising coffee, although the presence of heat quickly leads to a head-turning fusion of chocolate, orange and coffee as two becomes one.

SHORT BISCOTTI HISTORY

According to Italian folklore the double baked biscuit of fine Tuscan descent began life as a ROMAN LEGIONNAIRE’S essential on-the-march nibble, although nourishment not pleasure was the order of the day. Columbus too was another biscotti enthusiast who took sacks of biscotti on his worldly travels, since its low moisture content meant it travelled well over vast distances.

It was the ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, on a mission to remind the world about Italy’s unrivalled cultural swagger that was largely responsible for rekindling biscotti popularity in the Middle Ages, restoring the legionnaire’s time honoured tradition of dunking in dessert wine (ideally in Vin Santo).

THE BRITS GET INVOLVED

It was Victorian England that began the great British tradition of dunking bikkies in hot beverages (albeit tea) and even though this was frowned upon in certain areas of polite foodie society, it wasn’t long before our friends across the pond (USA)

and latterly Europe was following our lead and merrily drowning their favourite biscuits in coffee.

Even the Italians who treat their coffee as ‘liquid royalty’ (crumbs in coffee is an adulteration) were soon at it, dipping their biscotti in everything from frothy cappuccinos to uplifting espressos.

A VERY BRITISH BISCOTTI

For some while now Britain’s best known biscotti bakery has been dismantling two of the oldest urban ‘biscotti’ myths: that Tuscany is the spiritual home to the very best biscotti and that when it comes to flavour, almonds are always the answer.

The results have been nothing short of spectacular with a 12-strong portfolio (including Belgian Chocolate, White Chocolate & Cranberries, Parmesan & Fennel and Jalapeno & Cheddar…….) proving to be not only the best coffee companion money can buy but the last word in soup, salad and cheeseboard accompaniments.

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Every day, Löfbergs’s roastery in Karlstad receives 140 metric tons of green coffee. And every day, about 10 million cups of coffee leave the roastery. The roasting has been a great sustainability challenge for a long time, and the company has actively been working to find an alternative to conventional LPG. Löfbergs is now taking a huge step in the right direction. By blending in Bio LPG, Löfbergs will reach its goal of reducing its climate impact with at least 40 per cent by 2020.

It is a milestone that shows how important it is to set specific goals for your sustainability work. When we set our goal, we did not really know how to achieve it, but it made us push ahead and that has borne fruit, says Eva Eriksson, Sustainability Director at Löfbergs.

A greener alternative

As members of the Haga Initiative, a network of

companies, Löfbergs’s goal is to reduce its climate impact with at least 40 per cent by 2020 compared to the base year of 2005. The business’s biggest climate impact comes from the LPG that is used during the coffee roasting. A prerequisite to reach the climate goals has been to find a greener fuel alternative. The solution is to blend in Bio LPG from Kosan Gas, one of the Nordic countries’ leading suppliers of LPG.

The Bio LPG is extracted from sustainable raw materials like vegetable oils and animal fats when producing biodiesel. By blending in 20 per cent Bio LPG, our carbon emissions during roasting will be reduced with 19 per cent, which leads to us reaching our overall goal, says Eva Eriksson.

Responsibility from bean to cup

A lot of Löfbergs’s sustainability work is made in the producing countries, where the sustainability challenges of coffee are the

greatest. It is about providing small-scale coffee farmers the tools they need to meet climate change and improve their living conditions, but also about getting the next generation to see a future as coffee farmersThe sustainability work at home is a matter of energy efficiencies, smarter transport, more renewable energy and climate-smart packaging.

Löfbergs reaches its climate goals with Bio LPG

High street coffee chain Pret A Manger has increased the discount offered to customers who bring in a reusable coffee cup, from 25p to 50p.

From January this year customers who order a hot drink and ask for it to be decanted into their own cup will get the discount taken off at the till. Pret’s CEO Clive Schlee said he hoped that the improved incentive would “make a difference”.

Pret has been offering customers 25p off their coffee if they bring a reusable cup since August, as part of a campaign to help reduce the 2.5 billion

disposable cups dumped in landfill or incinerated each year in Britain.

Fewer than one in 400 high street coffee chain paper cups are recycled, according to Simply Cups, which operates a paper cup recycling service.

Mr Schlee floated the idea of increasing the reusable cup discount in November last year. He said that 96% of 5,000 respondents on an Instagram Stories poll voted “yes” to the 50p suggestion.

As well as raising the discount, Pret said it would source a

well-designed reusable cup to launch in store later in the year, as well as exploring the idea of adding china cups to more branches that have indoor seating.

Mr Schlee said the company debated whether to charge people for using paper cups, but decided that “it goes against our instincts as we would prefer to be generous to our customers than to tax them

Rival coffee chains Starbucks and Costa offer their customers a 25p discount on hot drinks served in a reusable cup.

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Pret A Manger introduces 50p

discount for customers who

bring in a reusable cup

Moose Maple Butter is certainly bringing a fair amount of zing to a chilled spread aisle where for too long ‘real’ innovation has been in short supply. Sitting proudly on shelf, this stylish moose-themed tub provides a snug haven for Grade A Canadian maple syrup and Carmarthenshire’s finest Welsh butter to mingle.

This is a butter that knows its mind, a butter that has no intention of playing second fiddle to any jam, peanut butter or continental chocolate spread. This is a spread that is only too happy to give toast and crumpets

an extra ‘sweet swagger’ or assist in the creation of some gloriously glazed meat & veg.

However it’s within the UK’s fine ‘Coffee Society’ that Moose Maple is now making its move, a super-premium upgrade for any health conscious, bullet coffee connoisseur.

Although initially deemed a celebrity fad, ‘bullet coffee’ continues to build a popular head of steam as a metabolism-speeding hot beverage that slows down one’s digestive system (suppressing food cravings) and raises one’s heart rate whilst simultaneously ‘slow releasing’ a gradual long- lasting coffee hit.

According to Moose Maple Butter founder Farrah, ‘Our

nutrient-rich butter is infused with a velvety smooth maple syrup which enables the nation’s leading coffee urbanites and baristas to assemble bullet coffees that offer extra depth and a little extra bang!

Available at Partridges, Selfridges, online via tasteofwales and an extensive nationwide network of independent delis, food halls and farm shops

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BULLET COFFEE WITH EXTRA BANG

Turning old violent areas into competitive coffee producers still faces some obstacles.

Colombia, the world’s third-largest coffee producer after Brazil and Vietnam, is planning to gradually increase its annual harvest in order to reach 17 million 60-kg bags in 2030.

This project involves the renovation of coffee trees, using three rust-resistant varieties, in 10% of the total area planted each year. This could raise productivity from the current average of 18.7 bags per hectare to 22 bags per hectare. But the program also has a social component: to rescue coffee production in areas that had been dominated by guerrillas before the 2016 peace agreement between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

“In some violent zones, production has been severely reduced during the last decades; and the coffee trees are very old. We cannot expect a huge improvement of production there, but our work with the local producers can result in a better economic and social environment in these areas,” Roberto Vélez, CEO of the Colombian Coffee Federation, tells Global Finance.

Despite the fact that coffee production in Colombia is traditionally a domestic activity, with no foreign companies directly involved in crop production, some international customers are joining forces with the federation and the government to develop coffee cultivation in these sensitive areas. Nestlé Nespresso, for example, has announced that this year it will increase its purchases

of Colombian coffee harvested in old conflict areas by five times the level of 2016.

Nespresso is using these specific beans in a new line of capsules launched in early 2017 under the brand name Aurora de la Paz (“Dawn of Peace” in English). The company is also investing $50 million to implement sustainability and production programs on old farms in the department of Caquetá, one of the regions most devastated by the guerrillas and paramilitary groups.

The challenge of turning these old violent areas into competitive coffee producers still faces some obstacles. The 2016 peace agreement between the government and FARC is being implemented with difficulty in Caquetá because of the presence of dissident guerrilla groups.

THE Coca-Cola is to launch three new drinks products in the UK to beat the forthcoming sugar tax.

The company’s UK boss Jon Woods said it would be the first time it had launched three brands in a year - a sign that the firm’s US-based chief executive James Quincey, a Brit who took the reins in May last year, wants the business to be more proactive.

Mr Woods said the launch of ice tea

drink Fuzetea, ready-to-drink cold coffee Honest Coffee, and dairy-alternative smoothies brand AdeZ, would mean that 30 per cent of UK sales would be still drinks in the few years to come - double today’s level.

This all comes as the UK soft drinks market grew at a sluggish 2.6pc in 2017, well behind the 4pc rate globally, as UK drinkers increasingly seek healthier drinks.one of the new brands Coca-Cola is launching into the UK this year will be Fuzetea that won’t trigger

the forthcoming sugar taxThe sugar tax takes effect in April. There are two bands under the levy: a 24p per litre level for beverages with 8g of sugar per 100ml, and an 18p per litre level for drinks with 5g of sugar per 100ml. They say the proceeds will go towards funding sport in primary schools lets see shall we.

Coca-Cola has reformulated most of its fizzy drinks to ensure nearly all of them will avoid the levy.

Colombia Coffee Grows Better After Guerrillas Leave

MCONALD’S have been wowing fans with their new menus around the world

Japan’s Mcdonald’s has released limited edition popcorn themed drinks

The Asian branch have previously added macaroons and cherry blossom drinks to their menu. For 2018 the chain popped up and released three limited-edi-tion coffee drinks.The sugary-sweet beverages are topped with caramel popcorn and look divine.

The Iced Caramel Popcorn Latte combined espresso with caramel syrup AND popcorn syrup.

They also released the Hot Caramel Popcorn Latte, which has all the same fun as the iced version, but is perfect for warming you up instead.

The drink contains foamed milk topped with mouth-watering popcorn pieces.

Next up, is the Caramel Popcorn Frappe. The unique drink serves up popcorn pieces inside a sweet waffle cone. The waffle cone accompanies whipped cream and caramel sauce.

The drinks are set to be released this year.

The limited edition drinks are available in Japan only until mid-February.

The hot and iced Caramel Popcorn Lattes will cost you about £2.56 and the Caramel Popcorn Frappe will coast around £3.29.

McDonald’s is now selling coffee drinks topped with popcorn

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website Goop has kicked off 2018 by recommending a product used to inject coffee into your rectum.

As part of a recent feature called the “Detox Guides,” the website touted a device used to give oneself a coffee enema at home the $135 Implant-O-Rama the idea of detoxing and the flushing the toxins out of one’s body through a special diet has been widely dismissed by experts.

“There isn’t any convincing evidence that detox or cleansing programs actually remove toxins from your body or improve your

health,” the National Institutes of Health said on its website. It also was mentioned that colon cleansing procedures or enemas, a common method of detoxing, “may have side effects, some of which can be serious.”

An enema is a medical procedure in which a liquid or gas is injected into the colon through the rectum, usually used to stimulate bowel movement. In recent years, the alternative medicine community has embraced do-it-yourself enemas — including those using coffee as the stimulant.

Goop recommended the Implant-O-Rama “for those who know what they’re doing.” The

product’s main website claimed that coffee enemas “can mean relief from confusion, depression, general nervous tension, many allergy related symptoms, and,

most importantly, relief from severe pain.”

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Sales of reusable coffee cups at Argos surged five-fold last month, ahead of MPs proposing the introduction of a 25p tax on disposable cups in a bid to tackle the mountains of waste produced across the UK every day.

Argos, which is part of the Sainsbury’s group, said recently that it had sold 537 per cent more travel cups at the end of last year than during the same time in the previous year.

Dawn Ritchie, a manager in the

kitchen buying department at Argos, said “that the popularity of the cups was partially fuelled by the success of popular documentaries like Blue Planet II, but also by the fact that some of the UK’s big coffee chains had started offering discounts to customers bringing in their own cup”.

Pret A Manger gave customers a 50p discount on the price of hot drinks when they brought their own cup, and Starbucks has recently said that it would kick off a three-month trial in

February charging customers 5p for disposable cups in up to 25 London stores.

The Government’s proposed “latte levy” hopes to reduce the 2.5 billion coffee cups thrown away every year, according to the Environmental Audit Committee. According to The British Coffee Association, 80 per cent of people who visit coffee shops do so at least once a week, whilst 16 per cent visit on a daily basis.

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Reusable coffee cup sales have surged ahead of the new latte levy proposal.

Initiative for coffee&climate launches new online toolbox

· The online toolbox consolidates best climate adaptation and mitigation techniques.

· It is free to use and openly accessible

from everywhere in the world.

· Climate change is affecting coffee production and threatening the living of coffee farming families worldwide.

Free and easy to use, openly accessible from everywhere in the world and practically supporting farmers in their response to climate change. These are just some of the attributes of the new web-based coffee&climate toolbox.

“The aim of the new toolbox is toenable coffee farmers worldwide to effectively respond to climate change”, says Michael Opitz, Director of the initiative for coffee&climate.“It is essential that all coffee farmers in the world have access to such important information”. It

is the initiative’sgoal to make innovative and scientifically proven practices available to the farmers. Through the toolbox they can learn which agricultural techniques work under specific climatic conditions.

The toolbox is a compilation of tools, climate maps, case studies, guidelines and training materials. It equips farmers and farming communities with valuable information about farming techniques andpractices that are climate resilient. All provided tools are continuously tested and further developed by farmers together with some of the world´s leading scientists in the specific regions. Based on evaluations from farmers in the field, the provided materials of the toolbox are constantly updated andreviewed. Visitors are invited to use the toolbox as an interactive platform and to also share their own experiences on effective tools.

Climate change poses a substantial threat to global agriculture. “The coffee producing regions in theworld are particularly vulnerable to this. The change implies decreasing land suitable for coffeeproduction, severe droughts and extreme shifts in rainfall patterns”, explains Opitz. As a result of these events, climate change tends to lower crop yields and elevate costs of production that are threatening the livelihood of coffee growing families.

Visit the new coffee&climate toolbox: www.toolbox.coffeeandclimate.org

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Supporting coffee farmers to react on the effects of climate change:

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