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Who Drinks Flavoured Coffees?

We have all seen them, heard of them, but how many of us have actually tasted flavoured coffees?

The coffee connoisseur would not touch them with a barge-pole and might explain that good coffee has a lovely flavour anyway, so why mess with it.

In addition, of course, you can enjoy many different coffee flavours (not flavoured coffees) by choosing a particular coffee bean to suit your tastes. How the coffee is brewed and presented will also effect the taste – You may prefer your coffee as a latte, a mocha or a cappuccino for example.

Where then do flavoured coffees fit in exactly?

Coffees flavoured with amaretto, vanilla, hazelnut, cinnamon, irish cream, almond, mint and many other unusual flavours offer the coffee drinker an entertaining alternative.

Available as both filter fine – pre ground or as a whole bean, flavoured coffees can be bought in many places. However there is a problem – grinders and coffee brewing equipment will become tainted with the coffee flavouring even after one use and it will take extensive cleaning before regular beans or coffee is ground or brewed again.

If you buy a presentation pack of many different flavoured coffees, which is popular, then you are likely to get cross contamination of flavours in your brewing equipment, whatever your chosen method of brewing.

By using coffee flavouring syrups you can avoid this problem altogether. These are available from many retail outlets and professional coffee supply companies and have a considerable shelf-life. Simply dispense your selected flavoured syrup into your shot of espresso or regular coffee and prepare the rest of your drink in the unusual way.

One well known make of flavoured coffee syrups is 1883 Phillibert de Routin. They produce a vast range of over 70 interesting flavours all available in quality glass bottles or individual one portion sachet sticks. Not all flavours are suitable for coffee as some are used in preparing desserts. This particular brand also prides itself on only using natural ingredients, free from artificial colours and preservatives.

Then you, your family and perhaps your customers can enjoy the occasional flavoured coffee without the effort of cleaning the equipment or flavour mixing that might otherwise occur. As coffee syrup flavourings are quite distinct and strong they usually overwhelm the original coffee taste, so there is little point in using an expensive blend.

In summary, flavoured coffees can be fun and enjoyed as a one-off, but they should never be a substitute for the real thing!

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Coffee in the Office – the Traditional Vending Machine

With the choice and variety of office drinks machine available today, choosing the most suitable one for your office can be difficult. I have already posted several articles discussing the pros and cons of different types of machines and in this article we discuss another ‘ the traditional office vending machine.

Many years ago the basic office vending machine consisted of a table top unit containing several canisters of loose dried drinks ingredients, push buttons to select the drink and a simple coin mechanism to enable money to be collected.

A typical arrangement for the machine of ingredient canisters or hoppers would comprise of freeze dried coffee, powdered milk, drinking chocolate, sugar and one other ingredient usually soup. Tea was not really an option as the taste of instant tea was not of sufficient quality and despite improvement this still remains the case today.

A plastic cup was taken from a column, money inserted in the mechanism and the cup put underneath the various selections and a button pressed to select the ingredient required. A white coffee for example would require a 6 stage process to produce a drink that still had to be stirred. Coin inserted, cup taken, coffee pressed, milk pressed, sugar pressed and lastly hot water added by pressing the final button.

This format still forms the basis of many smaller budget office drinks machines today. The technology has improved, the taste and choice of the drinks is vastly superior but the concept remains the same.

Larger automatic machines still use different ingredient hoppers, but have incorporated the whole process into a single one button operation that dispenses the chosen beverage into the cup at a fixed position so there is no need for manual operation.

Generally these types of machines offer instant drinks only, so that tea drinkers are often forced to choice an alternative. This sort of machine is easy to restock as it is a simple matter of refilling the various canisters inside the machine with the appropriate product. However spillages do occur and it is important that a daily cleaning and hygiene process is undertaken.

Modern and more expensive office vending machines can offer fresh brew coffee and leaf tea options and serve fabulous tasting drinks. However the complicated brew process means that cleaning and maintenance is more involved and your service engineer will need to call more often. Machine, drink and service costs are all higher for fresh brew machines, so this needs to be taken into account.

It is always best to discuss your requirements with a reputable supplier who will advise the best solution to your office drinks needs and suggest the most appropriate style of machine to suit your particular office layout, taste and budget.

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