I absolutely enjoy going to Caribou Coffee!!  I think their coffee is the BEST and I really enjoy the atmosphere they have created in their shops.  This company was started in the twin city area and for those who don’t live in MN or one of the other 15 states it has expanded into, they are missing out on a great coffee shop experience.  I really like the fact that they strive to buy coffee from foreign countries at fair prices rather than taking advantage of cheap labor.  Caribou recently started using real melted chocolate in their chocolate flavored coffees—what more could a chocoholic ask for?

I certainly have my favorite beverages, but I enjoy favorites from many different types of beverages offered.  During the summer months, I really like their coolers and smoothies.  My favorite summer beverage is the Campfire Mocha cooler or the Strawberry/Banana smoothie.  My kids always like the Oreo Snowdrifts.  In the fall, they offer a wonderful Pumpkin Spice cooler that is amazing and at Christmas time they whip up a sensational HO HO Mocha!!  Any other time during the cold months, I really enjoy the Campfire Mocha hot coffee beverage. 

You can sign up  to receive emails from Caribou and often on your birthday you will receive an email for a FREE coffee.  Throughout the year you will receive other promotional emails for free or reduced beverages.  Often on the first day of summer you can stop in the store during a certain time and receive a free sample of a new beverage being offered during the summer. 

https://shop.cariboucoffee.com/asp/youraccount/emailsignup.asp

Another fun thing they do is have a daily trivia question posted that you will receive $.10 off your beverage if you get the answer correct.  Caribou is also trying hard to conserve on paper cups and cup wraps, so if you bring in a specially purchased sustainability mug—you receive $.50 off your beverage purchase.  At their website, you can submit phrases about what you “stay awake for” that could be printed on their cups.

Coffee for Less

Coffee for less makes coffee better

The lifeblood of every morning is coffee For less than you can imagine you can have that morning cup of gold that wakes you and enables you to charge full steam ahead into the world that is waiting to take you down.  I love saving money on anything and everything but better than any coupon or discount is coffee for less than what I expected to pay.  The price of a cup of java has been going up faster than you can imagine and pretty soon no one will be able to afford their morning joe without sacrificing their dinner.  So it is wonderful that someone decided that coffee for less is the most important thing they could do to help people save money and still have one of the greatest pleasures in life.

Coffee for less is easier

The amazing thing about coffee for less is that they make coffee even easier to make.  The truly greatest cup of coffee is not found at Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, Caribou, or the local greasy spoon.  The best cup of coffee is made when you can roast your own green coffee beans and then grind it and brew right away.  So if you can have the best cup of coffee in the world the next best thing is coffee for less.  So if you can pass on the ten dollar trip to Starbucks and forgo your venti frappuccino  or tall cafe au lait with soy you can enjoy the next best thing right at home with your coffee for less. Imagine the money you can save by taking a quality coffee product but being able to buy it for so much less.  With the price of coffee for less you can share at the office for less than you spend on yourself right now.  Goodbye to the latte and hello coffee for less.

Beer of the Month Club

Beer of the Month Club

Micro breweries have sprung up around the country in the last two decades at a surprising rate.   Twenty years ago beer of the month club offerings were limited to several hundred breweries and now they can choose from thousands of unique recipes offered by these breweries.  With the expansion of brewers making their beers and offering them for sale it is important that you don’t join a membership with a beer of the month club that does not do adequate tasting and sampling before they send you your monthly treasure.

Who Should Join Beer of the Month Club

If you are the kind of person who picks up a case of beer every night after work and polish it off before you leave for work in the morning you need to seek help for your addiction the beer of the month club is not for you and you would not enjoy it.  If you have ever had someone encourage you to try their favorite beer and you tried it and hated it because you always drink Miller Lite then a beer of the month club is not for you.  BOMC is for those people who find something to celebrate in every new beer they try even if they wouldn’t drink a particular label again.  It is not for anyone who loves PBR or goes to fifty cent Schlitz in a can night because it is cheap.   The beer of the month club is to celebrate this ancient rite of enjoying a delicious beverage with its unique flavorings.  It is the sense of variety of the kind and amount of hops and the variety of sweetness and ale.