Hot Cocoa

Expresso Machines

Private Blend is another truly royal blend of our finest Colombian, Central American, Indonesian and African beans, producing a flavorful cup with a smooth body and deep flavor.

Columbian Coffee

The extra time in the oven ruptures the cell structure of the bean, allowing a complete, fast, flavor extraction.

The extra time in the oven ruptures the cell structure of the bean, allowing a complete, fast, flavor extraction.

Tea

Day Dreamer Decaf is so good, you won`t believe it`s decaffeinated! Swiss Water Process decaffeination. 8oz bag. Also available in a 4oz `mini bag`(mini bag in whole bean only). Sumatra Gayo Mountain Coffees are considered by many to be among the finest in the world.

Want to fancy it up? Add our little brown gift box (holds 10 bags) or the big brown gift box (holds 25 bags) Our Green Teas selections include Sun, Moon & Stars Delicious blend of top quality green tea leaves with classic flavor. Green Tea Garden is a flavorful green tea with plum and spice essences. Green Tea with Lemon & Ginseng with sweet ginseng and true lemon. Enjoy the tropical flavor of Green Tea with Mango & Citrus ! Herbal teas contain no true tea leaves and are more accurately called tisanes or herbal infusions. Chamomile & Fruit has a natural chamomile sweetness with complex fruit flavors. Cranberry Orange Tart has cranberries, rosehips, and hibiscus with sweet orange essence.

Mocha Madness

Fine teas are infinitely more complex than fine coffees, and an expert tea taster (cupper) is even rarer than a coffee cupper. Uptown Coffee is fortunate to have established a relationship with one of the oldest and finest tea importers in the world. We then set about achieving our goal of offering the finest of the world's rare and exotic teas. We have tasted hundreds of potential teas from the finest farms in India (DarJeeling, Assam, etc.), China, Ceylon and Indonesia.

Tea Pots

Green tea is the most dynamic segment in France and Germany, with its success deriving from its positioning as a healthy drink with medicinal properties, including an aid to slimming and helping prevent tooth decay. In the era of global branding, hot drinks still depend on national preferences. Tea is the typical British hot drink, but accounts for just 1.6% of total 1998 volume sales in Spain.

And if you`ve hesitated to try loose teas because you don`t want a muss or a fuss, hesitate no longer. Uptown Coffee is proud to carry the t-sac, a `tea bag easy` way to brew a cup of quality loose leaf tea, without the mess and cleanup associated with tea balls or strainers. Made from chlorine-free, unbleached paper, it`s as simple as spooning your tea into the bag and adding hot water -- no holder needed. Most roasters just roast beans. As a small family-owned roasting company, we seek to achieve the best flavors found in true gourmet coffees by raising the bar on standards throughout the entire coffee-making process.

Commercial Expresso Machines

>From there, coffee traveled to Turkey where coffee beans were roasted for the first time over open fires. The roasted beans were crushed, and then boiled in water, creating a crude version of the beverage we enjoy today. Coffee first arrived on the European continent by means of Venetian trade merchants.

Whether you`ve always preferred loose tea, or whether you`re new to the experience, we have some delicious and unique varieties that you`ll find hard to beat.

Our organic teas are available in Organic English Breakfast, Organic Peppermint, Organic Green with Lemon Myrtle, Organic Rosehips, or Organic Rooibos Spice. Whether you`ve always preferred loose tea, or whether you`re new to the experience, we have some delicious and unique varieties that you`ll find hard to beat. Jasmine Fancy Aromatic scented tea from China, with a delicate floral bouquet and flavor can be purchased as a loose tea. Lemon Rose is a gorgeous blend of light rose congou, lemon myrtle, lemon peel and luscious rose petals, which is available as a loose tea also. Herbal Classic Chai is a premium herb loose tea blend with chamomile, cardamom, cinnamon cloves and vanilla. Japanese Sencha is the most popular green tea in Japan, with a long flat leaf and a very full flavor, available as a loose tea.

Milk as an additive to coffee became popular in the 1680's, when a French physician recommended that cafe au lait be used for medicinal purposes. The first Parisian cafe opened in 1689 to serve coffee. Bach wrote a coffee cantata in 1732.

This one plant, transplanted to the Caribbean Island of Martinique, became the predecessor of over 19 million trees on the island within 50 years. It was from this humble beginning that the coffee plant found its way to the rest of the tropical regions of South and Central America.

A popular legend refers to a goat herder by the name of Kaldi, who observed his goats acting unusually frisky after eating berries from a bush. Curious about this phenomena, Kaldi tried eating the berries himself. He found that these berries gave him a renewed energy. The news of this energy laden fruit quickly spread throughout the region.

Each packet contains 1 . 5 ozs. of delicious ground coffee, enough for a perfect 10 to 12 cup pot. Say it with coffee with our Coffee Greetings Packets! These 1.5 oz gift packets feature colorful labels to help celebrate a variety of special occasions. Great in gift baskets, or tucked into a mug for a quick gift.

Green tea is the most dynamic segment in France and Germany, with its success deriving from its positioning as a healthy drink with medicinal properties, including an aid to slimming and helping prevent tooth decay. In the era of global branding, hot drinks still depend on national preferences. Tea is the typical British hot drink, but accounts for just 1.6% of total 1998 volume sales in Spain.

As a general rule, the longer the coffee is brewed the more bitter the taste - as caffeine is extracted last of all. Prior to this there is an acidic flavour, which is why coffee made too quickly tastes thin and sour. Espresso is a black, Italian style coffee that literally means "made on the sport for someone who orders it".

Time For Tea

In the future, genetically engineered coffee plants may produce coffee that is decaffeinated on the bush. Coffee pickers in Hawaii are among the highest paid in the world. You Know You're Drinking Too Much Coffee When....You grind your coffee beans in your mouth. Coffee beans are naturally sweet in flavour and that distinctive bitterness comes from extraction when hot water is added.

Today, coffee is a giant global industry employing more than 20 million people. This commodity ranks second only to petroleum in terms of dollars traded worldwide. With over 400 billion cups consumed every year, coffee is the world's most popular beverage. If you can imagine, in Brazil alone, over 5 million people are employed in the cultivation and harvesting of over 3 billion coffee plants.

Wild Strawberry is a delicious tea flavored with wild strawberries. Chai Spice captures the flavor of India in this exotic, aromatic blend of black teas, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, clove and cardamom Spiced Raspberry or Spiced Raspberry Decaffeinated - Natural ripe raspberry essence in a fine black tea with cinnamon.