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Fair-trade coffee gives British beer new buzz ("Coffee Beer")
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| 11/18/04
| AFP - London
Posted on 11/18/2004 8:27:26 PM PST by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) - Watch out Starbucks. British beermakers are wooing the caffeine-crazed with a new beer made from fair-trade coffee beans, to be launched on Friday.
Coffee beans from the central African country of Rwanda are mixed with barley grown in Britain, creating a beer with the same amount of caffeine in one bottle as in a cup of coffee.
Drinkers can get an added buzz from the political correctness of their coffee, labelled fair trade -- meaning it has been grown in conditions which ensure the fair treatment of and living wages for workers in developing countries.
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's is exclusively selling "Coffee Beer", which comes on the heels of strawberry and chocolate-flavored brews turned out by the same Meantime Brewery in Greenwich, southeast London.
After the success of strawberry in summer, "it seemed natural to have a more warming, mellow taste for winter," the supermarket said.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; United Kingdom; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: beer; brewery; british; buzz; caffeine; coffee; coffeebeer; fairtrade; gives; greenwich; meantime; new; warmbeer
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Beer drinker. British beermakers are wooing the caffeine-crazed with a new beer
made from fair-trade coffee beans, to be launched on Friday.(AFP/DDP/File)
To: NormsRevenge
This is nothing new: They had Buzz Beer on the Drew Carey Show years ago, and I'm sure the idea predates that.
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:29:18 PM PST
by
Dan Middleton
(All ideas are not created equal)
To: NormsRevenge
I'll bet Vodka and Redbull still packs a better buzz ;)
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:29:22 PM PST
by
Stellar Dendrite
(Halliburton razed the rainforests in a fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan -John Kerry '04 /Sarcasm)
To: NormsRevenge
Sounds interesting, I always thought British beer(Guiness) tasted like coffee anyway.
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:30:07 PM PST
by
edchambers
("Rock n Roller with one foot in the grave")
To: edchambers
It's not just for breakfast anymore!
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:31:05 PM PST
by
edchambers
("Rock n Roller with one foot in the grave")
To: NormsRevenge
Hmmm. Rum & Coke has competition :o)
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:32:42 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(taxes lower, door locked, gun loaded.)
To: edchambers
Uh oh...better watch out. You'll have a mess load of drunk Irishmen after ya for calling their brew a British drink!
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:32:49 PM PST
by
dayton law dude
(I've got the temper of an Irishman and the stubbornness of a German!)
To: Dan Middleton
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:33:07 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(May the wings of Liberty never lose so much as a feather.)
To: NormsRevenge
Mmmmm...new beer...
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:36:17 PM PST
by
SquirrelKing
("I have to march because my mother couldn't have an abortion." - Maxine Waters (D-California)
To: edchambers
A cup of coffee added to stout does taste very good, actually. You should try it!
Also good in stout, is vanilla icecream. Better than a Rootbeer float, IMHO.
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:36:40 PM PST
by
AnalogReigns
("My conscience is captive to the word of God...to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. ")
To: edchambers
I think the Irish might have something to say about you referring to their national brew as "British beer".
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:38:41 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
To: Stellar Dendrite
I'll bet Vodka and Redbull still packs a better buzz ;) Way back in the Navy, we used to mix Wild Turkey and Mello Yello. Geez, was I a dumb kid.
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:48:04 PM PST
by
EricT.
(Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: Aussie Dasher
OK I stand corrected, Irish beer already tastes like nasty cold coffee.Sorry I just can't get into Guiness that stuff is foul.
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posted on
11/18/2004 8:58:57 PM PST
by
edchambers
("Rock n Roller with one foot in the grave")
To: edchambers
I used to be into Guiness in a big way. I'm more a Kilkenny Ale man now. It's a good drop.
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posted on
11/18/2004 9:01:25 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(Stop Hillary - PEGGY NOONAN '08)
To: Aussie Dasher
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posted on
11/18/2004 9:03:45 PM PST
by
null and void
(Evolution is not about the origin of life on earth. It's about the origin of *species* of life!)
To: NormsRevenge
There was ( is ) a beer brewed with Starbucks coffee - came out over a year ago in Seatle...
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posted on
11/18/2004 9:06:24 PM PST
by
RS
(Just because they are out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
To: Stellar Dendrite
Trry Jaegar and Red Bull. That's a great combo! I actually just had one less than an hour ago.
To: edchambers
I disagree, only because I prefer dark beers.
To: NormsRevenge
...labelled fair trade -- meaning it has been grown in conditions which ensure the fair treatment of and living wages for workers in developing countries. Well, I, for one, can skip the pseudo-commie horsenoose. Just gimme beer!
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