Eight O’Clock Coffee is #1

Eight O’Clock 100 percent Colombian Coffee has been named the best buy at $6.28 for a pound, according to the March issue of Consumer Reports. The magazine tested and rated 19 ground coffees and put a “very good” Eight O’Clock ahead of runners-up Folgers, Maxwell House and Starbucks — the country’s best-sellers. It’s all about the taste, and Consumer Reports tasters liked Eight O’Clock the best. Eight O’Clock Coffee is also celebrating 150 years of making coffee by having a sweepstakes. It’s the standard sign up for their email list and come back everyday and enter kind of contest. From…

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Coffee-Drink of the Gods

When it comes to coffee I normally use a French Press-this is as close to an espresso as you can get without really working at it. Grind your own beans and whip up some milk if you want that whole cappuccino experience. But really, it’s always been about the buzz you get from coffee for me. Keurig makes a machine that I really like. Now, its not that I am totally lazy, just mostly lazy. I like the French Press and the coffee grinders, but there is a reason so many of them find their way to thrift stores-most people…

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DHEA, Coffee, and The Rush

Whenever I start using a new supplement, or stay off an old one long enough, there is that initial period of OMG, this stuff really works. That rush of vitality that inspires this odd feeling of, yes, this is how I am supposed to feel. That slightly odd feeling of I need to go to the gym and work out for a couple of hours. Though I never did DHEA bodybuilding. I have been taking DHEA, on and off, for several years now. I am finally old enough to feel some real benefits when I stop taking it for a…

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The perfect cup of coffee

Ok, maybe not perfect, but pretty close to perfect. I use a French Press, one of those cool little glass dodads with a mess plunger on the end. You start by grinding your own coffee, fresher is always better. About a tablespoon for a cup of coffee, or two if your a junkie like me. Give it a few small grinds in a kind of pulsing buzz-stop-buzz-stop until it is a nice coarse ground, about four to six seconds should do it.Run some hot water from the tap and rinse the insdie of the French Press. Put the fresh ground…

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