Provide Comfort & Warmth With Boyd’s Coffee
October 2017
The chilly winter months and holiday shopping season are right around the corner, so your customers are seeking comfort and warmth to get them through the gift-giving and family-gathering season. Why not provide your customers with a unique and delicious coffee that’s perfect for the cold months and long shopping days? Coming this November, Boyd’s Coffee will be offering our deliciously bold and hearty Winter Brew Coffee. This coffee is smooth and rich, thanks to its full, medium-dark roast. Blended with beans from Brazil, Rwanda and Sumatra, Boyd’s Winter Brew Coffee wraps around your customers like a warm fire on a cold day. Find out how you can draw customers to your beverage center with our exclusive Winter Brew Coffee! Contact your Boyd’s Coffee Sales Representative for more information.
Hot Weather Calls for Cold Brews
Check Out Boyd’s Cold Brew Coffee
August 2017
The summer’s warm weather often means fewer hot coffee purchases for convenience-store operators. However, you can give your summer coffee sales a boost thanks to a growing coffee trend: cold brew.
Unlike iced coffee, which is traditionally extra-strength, hot-brewed coffee kept refrigerated and poured over ice, true cold brew is steeped in cold water for 12-to-24 hours, leaving a concentrate that can be mixed with water or milk and served over ice. The result is a smooth, well-balanced, non-acidic coffee flavor. For some C-store operations, though, the long brew time and risk of running out before day’s end make cold brew an impossible choice.
Boyd’s Coffee has the ideal solution to this issue with our exclusive, new cold brew concentrate. This pouch-packed, shelf-stable, cold brewed product is made with the highest quality beans, which are 100% Arabica and 40% Rainforest Alliance Certified™ for sustainability. The concentrate dilutes at a five-to-one ratio (or to taste), and can be poured via a tap or dispensed from a container with ice bath. Either way, it’s delicious!
Once made, Boyd’s Coffee cold brew can serve as the basis for a variety of iced beverages. The resulting concentrate is very stable, lasting several days if kept refrigerated. Additionally, cold brew coffee drinks generally command a higher price point than hot coffee or traditional iced coffee.
Offering this beverage elevates your overall beverage center mix, and speaks to a growing consumer base for coffee: Millennials. We also can help you with recipes and merchandising for this on-trend product.
For more information about our cold brew concentrate solution, contact your Boyd’s Coffee Sales Representative.
New Fall Coffee Flavor from Boyd Coffee
Caramel Pumpkin Macchiato will be Introduced this Fall
July 2017
‘Tis the season for pumpkin-inspired treats! A delicious new fall flavor for your hot beverage dispensers from Boyd Coffee Company, Caramel Pumpkin Macchiato brings a new spin to fall’s pumpkin delights. Consumers will love its irresistibly sweet and creamy blend of caramelized brown sugar, marked with notes of pumpkin. In fact, caramel, as a coffee flavor on US menus grew 42 percent over the past five years according to Mintel Menu Research. * Consumers are always interested in trying delicious, interesting new flavors, so swap in Caramel Pumpkin Macchiato for a low-turning SKU, or better yet, reserve a dispenser for limited-time-offer and seasonal cappuccinos.
Caramel Pumpkin Macchiato is available beginning August 28, 2017, exclusively from Boyd Coffee Company.
*Source data: Mintel Menu Research 2017.
Great Coffee Doesn’t Happen By Accident
Java City Coffee is Committed to Excellence in Every Cup
February 2017
Java City Coffee’s story started in 1985 when they began hand roasting the world’s finest coffees in an old brick building in downtown Sacramento. If you haven’t noticed before, their coffees are smoother tasting than most, and that is not be accident. The beans they use are carefully roasted using authentic Italian bricklined roasters that provide radiant heat, allowing a slower, longer roast. Although their way takes longer, they wouldn’t have it any other way! Java City’s roasting process has been thought out from beginning to end.
Java City’s master roaster, Shawn Hamilton, has been pouring his heart into crafting each of the company’s unique roasts for over 25 years. From farm to cup, his experience and expertise contributing to creating their famously known smooth coffees. The process starts out by Shawn hand-selecting each of their sourcing partners. He ensures that the green coffee beans come from only the most distinctive and meticulously maintained coffee farms. All green coffee has a singular attribute that contribute to each flavor profile, which is why a thorough evaluation of the source is so important. They only partner with farmers who are as committed to exceptional coffee as they are.
Once a farm is selected, Shawn test roasts a sample of the green beans and takes them through the cupping process. He determines exactly what roast level the coffee can handle without becoming under or overdeveloped, thereby achieving the best taste and flavor balance. When the roast profile is finalized, the beans are carefully roasted using authentic Italian brick-lined roasters that provide radiant heat, allowing slower, longer roast. Slow roasting locks in the coffee’s natural flavors and aromas. After the coffee has reached its optimal roast time, it needs to be cooled down. They prefer the process of air cooling by releasing the beans into cooling trays where air moves through them to cool them down gently and naturally. Quality has always been Java City’s top priority and although air cooling is a longer process, it creates the freshest and most flavorful cup of coffee.
Throughout the roasting process, the company also takes care to ensure they practice responsible roasting by recycling, reusing and repurposing as much as possible. Java City donates thousands of green coffee burlap bags to their community zoo for animal bedding and to local schools for class projects. They donate their coffee chaff (the skin that comes off the coffee during the roasting process) to local farms for feed and mulch. They also donate roasted coffee to local nonprofits that focus on caring for and feeding underserved community members.
Java City is dedicated to offering you both better options and the best coffee you can find. Find out how you can partner with Java City Coffee by calling 888-728-3724.
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