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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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Van Houtte Colombian Medium Roast
Man…with all this Tech Gift Guide stuff we’ve been doing lately it seems like forever that I’ve sat down with a cup of coffee long enough to savor it, let alone write an actual review. But with the holidays thankfully behind us (mostly), I’m finally able to get back to the simpler things, like enjoying [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Holiday Blend
Right about the time (actually exactly the time) I got my hands on Green Mountain’s Gingerbread K-Cups (Limited Edition Seasonal), I also received a box of one of their limited edition Holiday Blend. Now quite frankly, I’m not sure what really goes into coffee to make it a holiday blend, at first I thought maybe [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Gloria Jean’s Oolong Tea
Let me preface this review of Gloria Jean’s Oolong Tea by stating that I am an Tea drinker. I mostly purchase home grown loose leaf Teas from a local shop that specializes in production of therapeutic Teas; yeah, I’m hardcore. The tea shop was a gem of a find, but I can’t always get [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Green Mountain Autumn Harvest Blend
With fall clearly winding down, and winter slowly taking over, I am admittedly a bit late with this review of Green Mountain’s Autumn Harvest Blend. The good news is the blend is still available, but when it disappears for the year at least I’ll be way ahead of the curve for next year.
Green Mountain [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Van Houtte Eclipse Blend (Extra Bold)
Up until about 2 weeks ago, all I could have told you about Van Houtte coffee is that it might be from Canada, it’s pretty hard to find, and the guy on the box has a pretty sweet mustache. Thanks to my friends at Keurig, I can now also tell you that Van Houtte makes [...]
Qwowi Review: Brewing K-Cups with the Keurig B30 Mini
As you can probably figure out from our K-Cup Challenge, here at Qwowi we talk a lot about Keurig K-Cups. And while with the exception of my review of the B140 office brewer, we haven’t said much about the machines those K-Cups go in, but when Keurig adds a new model to their lineup, I do get a [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Organic (Extra Bold)
The last of my samples from our friends at OneGreatCup brings me to Coffee People Organic, which, from what I gather is the only 100% Certified Organic in the Coffee People lineup. That may or may not matter to you (personally, at 6:30 AM, organic is about the last thing on my mind), but for [...]
Keurig B30 Single-Cup Brewers are Available Now (Red Ones Too)
It’s hard to image the self-confessed Keurig junkie that I am would wait this long (hey I’ve been busy) to tell you about the latest offering in the Keurig single-serve coffee machine lineup, but I did, and now I’m making it right.
The K-Cup Challenge should serve as a testament to how much I love the [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Tully’s Evergreen Blend
Tully’s Evergreen Blend is the last variety from my most recent round of samples from our good friend’s at Shoffee.com (hey Joe, I’m all out again). It was actually the first K-Cup from the lot that I ran through my brewer, but here I am over a month later, and I’m still not completely sure [...]
The K-Cup Challenge: Coffee People Vanilla Avalanche
My sample of Coffee People Vanilla Avalanche came out of a Coffee People flavored coffee sampler that was sent to me by Qwowi sponsor OneGreatCup. This is the 4th and final review born from that sampler. For those who haven’t been keeping track; I DESPISED Chai Coffee so much I’m actually thinking of using the [...]
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