"Flavored Coffee": Delicious Or Disgusting?
Personally, I believe the act of roasting coffee with flavored oils is disgusting. However, due to high demand, it has been insisted on me by my customers to keep a steady supply of this coffee.
Does anyone know a better way to serve this product other than through the normal drip process (please don't say French press)???
Does anyone know a better way to serve this product other than through the normal drip process (please don't say French press)???
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Permalink Reply by Rich Abker on
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I agree with what you personally believe about flavored coffee beans. Try convincing your customers to use a quality
flavored syrup and add it to a cup of coffee brewed from fresh roasted coffee. This way the natural coffee flavor is less masked by flavor, and you have more control on the amount of flavor added.
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Permalink Reply by Chris/Dale on
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I'd wager you'd be hard pressed to find any serious fans of coffee on this sight that would advocate the act of perfuming coffee known as flavoring (especially since a lot of the chemical bottles that contain the flavoring oils also have warnings against prolonged exposure) but if your shop happens to sell it then, I'd say when someone orders it then sell it with a smile and build a relationship with the patron that will allow you to make recommendations down the line towards syrup additions instead.
As far as preparations go I'd say just the standard separate airpots, scoop, grinder and strainer to prevent the the flavored beans from tainting your quality fare.
As my old drummer would say , "You cant polish a turd"
...to which I would respond,"You can, but it will never be a diamond."
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Permalink Reply by Alun Evans on
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Rich is right, I think if customers insist on syrupy drinks, the only way to do this is to add the syrup to the cup, not to the beans during the cooling process in a mixer. Not only do flavored beans muck up grinders, I think for those looking for a flavored Java Jolt adding the range of syrups available gives muich more variety while meaning the retailer only has to carry a stock espresso blend bean and a shelf worth of syrups that have a shelflife far,far greater than the beans would (should!) ever have :)
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Permalink Reply by Bwynn on
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Rich Abker said:I agree with what you personally believe about flavored coffee beans. Try convincing your customers to use a quality
flavored syrup and add it to a cup of coffee brewed from fresh roasted coffee. This way the natural coffee flavor is less masked by flavor, and you have more control on the amount of flavor added.
To this point, most customers will say there is too much sugar when using a syrup. Does anyone know what the sugar content is on a flavored coffee verse using syrup?
I have found that flavored coffee customers are in the habit of flavoring all coffee and dont really want to break free of it. Its cheap and rewarding and with all the variety, its something they can explore almost like beer. They have told themselves so many times they dont like the way coffee taste plain. These are long term commitment customers who must be given multiple tastes of straight coffee brewed fresh and correctly to slowly ween them from it. But it can happen. For the shop owner, the stuff sells!
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Permalink Reply by John P on
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How about the novel idea of actually letting people taste the coffee! :)
Why sell "flavored" coffee, when you can sell coffee with flavor?
Ethiopian Harrar Longberry - chocolate, spice, blueberry
Panama Carmen Estatate - Vanilla, peach, tart cherry
Any number of good Kenyan - anything from peach to black currant to grapefruit to tangerine...
Brazilian Cerrado - chocolate and marzipan
Costa Rica La Minita - Crystalline sweet floral, peach, hints of nut...
There are hundreds of other fantastic coffees with thousands of great flavor components every year, give the customer something better and they will appreciate it more.
More distinctive flavor nuances, better coffee...
and in the end...
more educated customers, happier customers, happier owner.
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Permalink Reply by Mike McGinness on
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As a roaster and cafe owner struggling to keep the doors open I can honestly say I'd close the doors before I'd flavor any roast. That is not the customer base I'm working to build.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Streetman on
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Check out Monin's new product called "simply flavor" It is the flavored syrup without the sugar..... so you can add flavor to the coffee (if you must) without the sugar.
http://us.monin.com/category.php?id=910
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Permalink Reply by Brady on
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Anyone have experience with this Monin product? I've seen it but not tried it yet. We do currently stock a limited number of "flavored" coffees. Some mornings they represent a significant portion of our drip sales (perhaps 20%), other mornings they hardly move.
Nasty stuff, I'd just as soon drop it altogether. I was toying with the idea of a "no flavoreds" day once a week... just to get them to try a great real coffee.
Curiously, very few of my flavored coffee customers accept a cup of coffee with a flavor syrup shot as a substitute... not sure why. Even if they sweeten it, they just don't like it. Curious.
Oh, not to be argumentative, but you actually can polish a turd - saw it on Mythbusters a few nights ago. When prepped properly, a ball of poo will take quite a nice shine. Perhaps I digress, but only very slightly. :)
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Permalink Reply by JmyWhsprs on
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Brady said:Anyone have experience with this Monin product? I've seen it but not tried it yet. We do currently stock a limited number of "flavored" coffees. Some mornings they represent a significant portion of our drip sales (perhaps 20%), other mornings they hardly move.
Nasty stuff, I'd just as soon drop it altogether. I was toying with the idea of a "no flavoreds" day once a week... just to get them to try a great real coffee.
Curiously, very few of my flavored coffee customers accept a cup of coffee with a flavor syrup shot as a substitute... not sure why. Even if they sweeten it, they just don't like it. Curious.
Oh, not to be argumentative, but you actually can polish a turd - saw it on Mythbusters a few nights ago. When prepped properly, a ball of poo will take quite a nice shine. Perhaps I digress, but only very slightly. :)
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Brady said:
Oh, not to be argumentative, but you actually can polish a turd - saw it on Mythbusters a few nights ago. When prepped properly, a ball of poo will take quite a nice shine. Perhaps I digress, but only very slightly. :)
...touchee?
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Brady said: ...a ball of poo will take quite a nice shine
Fresh poo has a natural glistening shine to it, while old and stale poo can only have an artificially induced shine.
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