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Tonights show we talk about steam punk transformers, a change in coffee attitude, latitude and temperature, as well as lot of Vader. Geek out with a lovely little wander through the good and the bad of the android and apple, star wars and sci fi.

Tags: android, Caffination, Coffee, coffee attitude, cold brewed coffee, google apps, google voice, iced coffee, iphone, Mario, Paul Muller, Paul Rj Muller, Retro, sci-fi, Star Wars, Steampunk, Transformers, vader

I love iced coffee. But some people have found a way to mess up the simplest of summer beverages. Take coffee, add Ice… Enjoy. Please serve it black, strong, Cold and without any syrups or other junk. Especially during the summer months I love cold brewing coffee to make iced coffee later. What is cold brewed? How does cold brewed coffee differ from iced coffee? How does it compare to regular coffee? Well I hope to be able to shed a little light on that for you.

Cold brewed coffee is a very simple concept. It is coffee that was never heated, but was rather leached out of the grounds and into cold water directly. The resulting beverage has the added benefit of turning bitter coffee into milder coffee, and contains just as much caffeine as a normal cup of coffee. In fact the cold brewed coffee always seems a bit stronger because the coffee and the grounds are in contact for a lot longer during the brewing process. Cold brewing any coffee also has the added benefit of reducing the overall acidity of the coffee as well. Read the rest of this entry »

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The CaffiNation Podcast runs the new Ronco Coffeetime brew system through its paces and gives our final verdict on this new product

Tags: but wait there's more, caffination podcast, caffination reviews, Coffee, Coffeetime Brew System, cold brew, cold brewed coffee, ronco, Ronco coffeetime brew system