K-Cup Challenge – Green Mountain Spring Revival Blend

Yup…I’ve managed to sustain another huge gap between K-Cup Reviews.  It’s not like I’ve been slacking or anything, I’ve just been caught up with other projects (day job, 2nd sorta-job, yard work, and most importantly playing a lot of golf).  So yeah, I’ve lost track of the coffee thing for a bit, but thankfully my [...]

Green Mountain Revvs Up Your K-Cups

Earlier this week I told you about Green Mountain’s new Travel Mug Sized K-Cups. While the feedback I’ve heard about that has been extremely positive (people really want a bigger cup), I’m not actually much of a travel mug guy myself. The thing is, I’ve got just short of a 1 hour drive [...]

Green Mountain Wants to Fill Your Tavel Mug (the whole thing)

I got home on Friday (actually, I didn’t, my wife did, but anyway) to find a box of K-Cups from Green Mountain sitting on my doorstep.  Normally a box of boxes of delicious K-Cups from Green Mountain isn’t a huge surprise.  As you probably know, I’ve worked when them quite a bit over the last [...]

Shoffee Launches 3rd Annual Shoffice Pool

It’s March Madness time again, which means it’s time again for Shoffee’s 3rd Annual Shoffice Pool.  This year the prize pool is bigger than ever.  Granted, 3 years isn’t a long time to track these sort of things, but never the less…our friend’s at Shoffee are offering some pretty sweet prizes for coffee-loving basketball fans [...]

K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Tree Hugger

Before we get down to the actual review, there’s a few things I’d like to say.  First; Happy New Year to everyone.  Second; Welcome new Keurig owners, and K-Cup lovers who are discovering Qwowi Coffee for the first time.  Thanks for the e-mails you’ve sent me, and I’m certainly glad you’re enjoying the site.  Finally, [...]

Holiday Savings from Green Mountain

How’d you like to save 10% off you entire order at Green Mountain Coffee?
Now until the end of December (otherwise known as the “Holiday Season”), Green Mountain is running a little family and friends deal for their Coffee Ambassadors; guys like me who can’t stop talking about how good Green Mountain Coffee is.  Occasionally, I’ll [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Donut House Coffee

Pretty much since the beginning of K-Cup time there was Coffee People’s Donut Shop Coffee.  Then earlier this year, Timothy’s announced (and then released) their Original Donut Blend.  Apparently this made for a little bit more unchallenged Donut than Green Mountain was willing to swallow, and so they quickly responded with the K-Cup equivalent of [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People’s Santa’s Buzz

I’ve been dragging my heals on this review for a while now.  I don’t know if it’s a lack of Christmas spirit that has prevented me from reviewing this holiday seasonal, or if the simple fact that my day job boss, and my full-time wife (with her never ending stream of home renovation projects) have simple kept [...]

K-Cup Challenge: Gloria Jean’s Holiday Traditions

The end of fall means a couple of things here at Qwowi.com.  First it means the end of the golf season in the northeast, which makes me generally miserable.  On the upside it means that the seasonal winter blends are starting to trickle on to the market.  Last year I reviewed Green Mountain’s Holiday Blend, [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Timothy’s Original Kahlua

If you follow Shoffee on Facebook at all you already know that there’s been a fair amount of buzz…well…buzzing around the release of Timothy’s new Kahlua original. Of course, the truth of the matter is that Timothy’s is in fact, NOT the original Kahlua blend K-cup (that distinction belongs Coffee People’s now discontinued Kafe-Lua [...]

New K-Cups Coming Soon

For K-Cup lovers craving something new, I have some very good news for you.  My friends at Green Mountain and Shoffee have some new samples on their way to me,  I should have everything by the end of this week, which means you can expect reviews to begin trickling out early next.  What makes these [...]

K-Cup Showdown: Pumpkin Fight!

Not that long ago, my friend Joe over at Shoffee.com asked me if I’d be interested in doing a head to head comparison of the 3 Seasonal Pumpkin varieties currently available in a K-Cup footprint.  Without too much thought about it, I agreed.  Of course, a few days later it dawned on me that not [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Timothy’s Original Donut Blend

I’ve been a Keurig guy for about 2 years now (give or take), and have been doing this K-Cup Challenge thing for a while now.  I’ve seen new K-Cup come, and sadly, I’ve seen K-Cups go.  What I’ve never seen is the buzz and eager anticipation that’s surrounded the launch of Timothy’s Original Donut Blend.  [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain The Perfect Peach

To me the words “peach” and “coffee” belong together almost as much as “peanut butter” and “tuna fish”.  Sure, they’re both edible, and sure, they both go well with other things, but together…call me skeptical.  Skepticism aside, when Green Mountain releases a new flavor, especially a limited edition seasonal, I feel almost obligated to give [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Fair Trade Summer Safari Blend

Well, this is a first for Qwowi Coffee.  I’m actually posting a review for a seasonal coffee, fully knowing that it’s probably completely sold out for the season.  If we’re all lucky, we might see Summer Safari Blend again next summer, or better yet, maybe we could persuade Green Mountain to add it as a [...]

New Summer Coffees from Green Mountain

As is their tradition, my friends over at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters have announced two new Summer Seasonals for 2009.  Both Perfect Peach and Summer Safari Blend are available in Autodrop (ground) or K-Cups (which is why I’m excited).  

Here’s the Descriptions and Tasting Notes for both:
Fair Trade Summer Safari Blend
Description:
A spirited blend of South [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Gloria Jean’s Mudslide

I spend a decent amount of time browsing Shoffee.com trying to decide what I’d like to review next.  With 200+ varieties to choose from it sometimes can be difficult to select only a few at a time.  Every now and again, however; something really grabs my attention.  I’ll read the description and get to thinking [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Emeril’s Big Easy Bold

While getting ready to pick a winner in our Keurig B60 Brewer giveaway I sat down with a cup (ok, lots of cups) of Emeril’s Big Easy Bold (which I’m fairly certain is made by Timothy’s).  Just like our Keurig giveaway, my review of Big Easy Bold is sponsored by the Internet’s favorite coffee shop, [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Jet Fuel XBold

Some months back a reader emailed me for my thoughts on Coffee People’s Jet Fuel.  At the time I was making my way through a Coffee People sampler box from one of my K-Cup Challenge sponsors.  As I explained to my reader at the time, I hadn’t tried Jet Fuel yet, but since it was [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Cafe Escapes Hot Cocoa

While it’s not quite the K-Cup showdown we had when Christine compared all of the Earl Grey K-Cups available for Keurig brewers, I got to thinking that writing side by side reviews of the two new hot cocoa K-Cups from Green Mountain was really the only way to do it.  I say this, because, as [...]

K-Cup Challenge: Battle of the Earl Grey Teas

From coffee to tea
Even as I sit down to write this review, I can’t help but chuckle a little.  As an avid coffee drinker for years, I honestly haven’t been much of a tea snob.  However, when my husband and I purchased our K-Cup brewer a few months ago, I became fascinated with all sorts [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Van Houtte Raspberry Chocolate Truffle

I’m trying to remember exactly when my friends at Keurig sent me some samples of Van Houtte’s Raspberry Chocolate Truffle.  To be sure, it was last year, and I’m fairly certain it was before the snow began to fall.  I’m not proud, as I’ve clearly been slacking a bit on this K-Cup Challenge thing.
In my [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Caribou Daybreak Morning Blend

This installment of the K-Cup Challenge is sponsored by Shoffee.com, where you can find the biggest selection and best prices anywhere on K-Cups.  Check out the Shoffee Blog for Keurig and CupofTheWeek for K-Cup news, and for weekly specials on select  K-Cups from Shoffee.com.
I have a friend who, not too long ago, bought himself [...]

Green Mountain Launches Cafe Escapes, Starts Selling Caribou Coffee

I’m a little late in getting this information out (I’ve been busy), but there’s some pretty cool stuff happening over at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that I wanted to make sure to mention before I get back to the K-Cup Challenge next week.  If you read my review of the original Green Mountain Hot Cocoa, [...]

Shoffee Kicks Off 2nd Annual March Madness Shoffice Pool

We’re not much for re-blogging here at Qwowi.com, but I needed an excuse to launch the new blog section of Qwowi Coffee (http://coffee.qwowi.com), and I couldn’t think of anything better than the 2nd annual March Madness Shoffice Pool from our good friends at Shoffee.com.  This year, Joe and the rest of the Shoffee team, are [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Cowboy Coffee

Once my life’s mission, it’s been over a month since my last K-Cup Challenge post (this sort of feels like a confession).  I’m sure my friend’s over at Shoffee.com (the guys who hooked me up with my latest round of samples) are wondering just what the heck is going on over here at Qwowi.com.  Metaphorically [...]

The Keurig B40 – Entry Level K-Cup Brewing

I used to get up every morning and brew a half of a pot or pot of coffee and be bored with it after the first cup.  I whined to my wife about it and kept bugging her to ‘let me’ get a k-cup brewer.  “We have a coffee pot already … why do you [...]

Brewing Coffee With the Tassimo Suprema

Even if this is your first time at Qwowi.com it shouldn’t take you long to realize we’re fans of the Keurig Brewing System.  More to the point, however; we’re fans of single-serve coffee.  My feeling is that, like the microwave, a single-serve brewer will eventually find its way to just about every counter top in [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Gloria Jean’s Organic White Tea

I’ve finally arrived at the last of my most recent collection of samples from K-Cup Challenge sponsor Shoffee.com.  Although I believe Gloria Jean’s White Tea has been discontinued, those who enjoy it should be still be able to find it in stock if they’re willing to look around.
As you may recall, I wasn’t much of [...]

The K-Cup Challenge: Van Houtte Madigascar Vanilla Nut

How’s this for irony; a French-Canadian coffee company using vanilla from Madagascar in their coffee?  Maybe Van Houtte knows what I’ve known to be true all along: big curly mustaches are cool, also French vanilla, especially in coffee, sucks.  There I said it.  Now I’m fairly certain my friends at Keurig would prefer it if [...]