Monthly Archives: September 2009

I was reading an article in the Newark Advocate online about a woman charged with stealing WIFI. There were other issues as well but the idea of WIFI theft is what I am interested in.

First of all, can you steal WIFI? I mean, the coffee shop that offers it for customers is paying for it regardless, as far as I know. They don’t pay per customer. At what point should a person be considered to be stealing WIFI?

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I know that lately Kettle and Cup has been more Cup than Kettle but there is a good reason for that. Apparently coffee roasters are a more generous bunch than purveyors of fine teas because I regularly am offered coffee for sampling and reviewing and tea companies prefer that I pay cold hard cash.

Since cold, hard cash has been a little elusive around the Audet household lately I have been drinking coffee.

There are a number of teas out there, perfect for Autumn, that you need to try if you like tea. (more…)

It is no secret that I really don’t like the current administration. And, if the truth be known, I don’t like the increasing government intrusion that seems to have occurred over the past decade or so. I  think that the Consititution has been turned into a list of suggestions, much like the Ten Commandments.

SO….I could not resist this Disappearing Civil Liberties mug and more than likely it will be finding its way into my home very soon…

Yep. The entire Bill of Rights is listed on the mug. As you pour hot coffee in and you rights disappear one…by….one. Constitutional erosion - it’s what is happening in Washington only this is quicker and at least you get caffeinated at the same time.

image:Amazon

So the team at Kohana Coffee made it possible for me to have an totally new experience - I got to name a new coffee blend! How fun is that?
They wanted something that reflected Texas because this coffee is going to be sold on Regional Best, and while I came up with several suggestions they liked Alamo Joe.

I got a bag of beans in the mail yesterday.  When you open the bag the aroma of the beans jumps out at you in an in your face, friendly Texan way. Spicy and rich, the scent is faintly licorice. The flavor is bright with citrus and herbs in the foretaste and a very faint peppery flavor that lingers like an old friend saying goodbye.

I think Alamo Joe is a great name for this coffee. Friendly, easy to like, with all of the upfront honesty of a West Texas cowboy. This is a blue jeans and boots kinda brew; laid back but with some fire in the hearth.

I am giving it a 4.0. Would have liked the roast to have been a touch darker, with a little more experience to go along with that passion. My guess is that if you just like good, hot coffee in your favorite mug that this will be one you like a lot.

Check out my other Kohana Cofee reviews:

• Antigua Bella Carmona
• Rockin Like Austin
• Panama
• Hawaiian Prime
• Hawaiian Select
• Kona Estate

Coffee images and image collage: Marye Audet

Boots image in collage:SXC

Flag image in collage:SXC

About once every six weeks I drive up to Mesquite to Towne East Mall to get my hair done at Tony and Guys. That has nothing to do with coffee but it does explain what I was doing there and how I found Cafe Latte, right?

Usually Ethan (not quite 16) and I go. We get haircuts and then head to the Starbucks in the mall for coffee. Except…a few months ago Starbucks pulled out of the mall. So, we got haircuts but went coffee-less. So sad.

Well, Ethan and I were strolling around the mall and all of a sudden he said (with great excitement), “Mom! Look! Coffee!”
Sure enough, there in all of it’s caffeinated glory was a coffee shop. It beckoned us. We caved.

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