by deCadmus | Mar 10, 2008 | Coffee
How do you love Peet’s? Peet’s wants you to count the ways. Share your story of Peetnickety devotion, and you could win free coffee for a year — for you and five of your friends. The “Why I Love Peet’s” contest is part of the...
by deCadmus | Nov 6, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4/5] I tend to wax rhapsodic about single-origin coffees. It’s much more rare I do the same for a coffee blend. There’s a reason for that. Let me ‘splain. Some folks (read, all of the Big Four — Sara Lee, Kraft, Procter &...
by deCadmus | Aug 31, 2007 | Coffee
Alfred Peet — founder of Peet’s Coffee, grandfather of specialty coffee in the U.S. — died this week. Mr. Peet opened his coffee shop at the corner of Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, California in 1966, and awakened the American palate to the...
by deCadmus | Mar 14, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4.5/5] Nuanced, balanced and complex with a lip-smacking semi-sweet finish. Peet’s current Special Offering — a limited run of a Colombian Caracol (peaberry, en Español) — is an heirloom bean (typica, a very low yield, high quality...
by deCadmus | Feb 19, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
There are hoards of Peetniks up and down the Left Coast, but how will Peet’s signature deep-as-night roast style play in New England? Time will tell. Meanwhile, I spied one of their displays in the neighborhood grocery this week, and thought I’d give...
by deCadmus | Nov 4, 2005 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
[rating:4/5] What is it about Peet’s coffee that bends its will toward a French Press? That refuses to really bloom — to show its complexity and depth and subtle acidity — unless it’s had a good soak in a cafetiere? Consider — Recently a...