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Give to charity & we’ll give you coffee

When you give $50 or more to one of our named charitable organizations before the end of 2010, 417coffee & local coffee shops will give you coffee gift cards or coffee beans.

All-analog, hand-brewed coffee

The Oregonian posted a solid piece last week about pourover coffee brewing, referring to it as “all-analog” and “hand-brewed”, talking through the ins and out of pourovers, why you would take the time to have hand-poured drip coffee, and even providing a how-to video and hardware purchase recommendations.

7 Ways to Celebrate National Coffee Day

Today is National Coffee Day.  I honestly didn’t realize that until I saw it filling up my Twitter screen from all my online coffee friends, so a hearty National Coffee Day to you!  It got me thinking — what are good ways to celebrate National Coffee Day?  I’ve come up with ten for your reading […]

And the winner of the Red Rooster coffee grinder is…

It’s giveaway time.  We launched the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card back in June, and a couple weeks ago, we announced that the generous people at Red Rooster Trading Company had offered up a Camano Coffee Mill bundle to be given away to one of the first 10 people to complete the Disloyalty Card and turn it […]

A Tanzania coffee side-by-side: Heroes vs. Intelligentsia

Recently I’ve been sampling the roasts from Heroes Coffee, a local coffee roaster based here in Springfield, Missouri.  Heroes Coffee also owns the Heroes Coffee Cafe located at the corner of National Avenue and Chestnut Expressway in Springfield, which is one of the shops taking part in our 417Coffee Disloyalty Card.   It’s the best location […]

KY3 news coverage of the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card

Thanks to the diligence of KY3 News reporter Marie Saavedra, the 6 p.m. newscast of the KY3 News out of Springfield, Missouri, featured a news feature piece on the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card that we launched last Friday.  The video is below: I received a tweet on Monday from Marie asking if we could meet up […]

Announcing the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card

Today I’m excited to announce the launch of the 417Coffee Disloyalty Card! What’s a disloyalty card, you ask?  We’ve all used loyalty cards before — a punch card or swipe card that encourages you to visit the same coffee shop over and over for some kind of benefit or perk once you buy the right […]