• French Roast
• French Vanilla
• Hawaiian Hazelnut
• Rodeo Drive
• Sorrento
• Sumatra Kopi Raya
• Vienna Coffee House

Production of these items will be discontinued, and are now available while supplies last.

The items that will remain in production are Breakfast in Bed, Chefs Reserve Colombian Dark, Chefs Reserve Colombian DECAF Medium, Crème Caramel, and Jamaica Me Crazy.

“I love the Savvy Shopper Discount, but wish I didn’t have to buy so much at once to get the low pricing.”

Well America, we have heard your cries.  Starting today, November 30, 2011 – the Savvy Shopper Discount® will be coming to an end.  But this is not a sad day, because our pricing per box has been adjusted to give you terrific every day savings!

From $15.98 per box, down to $13.32 (the same amount you had been paying after bulk buying before), and no special codes to enter or minimums to purchase, no special rules or regulations to remember, or math to decipher in your head.  Just plain, simple, great pricing for every box of K-Cup® packs you want to purchase.

And our Free Shipping offer is pretty terrific too – an order of 4 or more boxes will ship for free, via UPS Ground.  Smaller orders, and those shipped outside of the domestic US, pay only our discounted shipping rate.

13 cups is the weekly average

A poll released by 7-Eleven Inc. in conjunction with National Coffee Day (Sept. 29) says that 65 percent of Americans drink coffee every day, many within an hour of waking up.

The coffee-drinkers in the survey said they consume an average of 13 cups a week, and 60 percent agreed with the statement, “I need a cup of coffee to start my day.”

In other results:

• 28 percent of the coffee drinkers had their first cup within 15 minutes of awakening, and 68 percent within the hour.
• 57 percent added sugar or another sweetener to their brew.
• 54 percent agreed with the statement, “Coffee makes me feel more like myself.”

Another National Coffee Day poll, this one from Dunkin’ Donuts, identified which professions self-identified as most likely to need morning coffee to be productive. The top three were: scientist/lab technician, marketing/public relations professional and education administrator.

Study links coffee with depression avoidance

Caffeine seen as positive agent

A new study suggests that women who drink coffee may be at lower risk of clinical depression. The research, published Sept. 26 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was based on results from 51,000 women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study, a long-standing epidemiological survey affiliated with Harvard University. The women in the study, average age 63, had not been previously diagnosed with depression; they were evaluated on the basis of new diagnoses with prescriptions for antidepressant medication.

According to the study, consumption of two to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day was associated with a 15 percent lower risk of clinical depression. With four cups or more, the risk dropped to 20 percent.

Researchers speculated that caffeine, which is known to stimulate production of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin, may be the agent at work. But they cautioned that more work has to be done before causality can be established.

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‘Coffee cat’ breaks speed record

Spent grounds provide fuel for English researchers

A car fueled with coffee grounds has set a world record for a vehicle powered by bio-waste.

Researchers at England’s Teesdale Conservation Group reached a top speed of 77.5 miles per hour and an average speed of 66.5 mph in trials sponsored by the BBC. The performance broke the previous Guinness record of 47 mph average, for a car that burned wood pellets.

The Teesdale car, a modified Rover SDI, burns spent coffee grounds that have been dried and compressed into pellets. A “gasifier” in the car burns the coffee together with wood at super-high temperatures, creating a gas of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

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Coffee prices coming back down

Output increases in Brazil, Vietnam and elsewhere

Coffee prices are retreating from their 30-year record highs over the summer, as increased exports seem to be depressing prices.

Prices for Arabica, the variety most often used for specialty coffee, have fallen 16 percent since September, to $2.4085 a pound as traded on the Coffee & Cocoa Exchange. Prices for the more mainstream Robusta have fallen even further, 26 percent since the spring as traded in London.

The drop in prices is attributed to increased production in Vietnam, Brazil and other major supplier nations. This year’s Brazil coffee crop is estimated to be 14 percent above last season’s, while Vietnam’s will go up 9.8 percent, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

CoffeeGIANT.com has received word from representatives of Green Mountain Coffee, a major Keurig K-Cup manufacturer, that effective September, 2011 all Timothy’s 22/24 count K-Cups will no longer be available for sale in the United States to wholesale customers.

In a letter dated August 15, 2011, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters states:

“Effective September 9, 2011 Timothy World Coffee K-Cup portion pack beverage varieties will no longer be available in the wholesale channel in the United States. This will enable us to offer a more consistent supply of products that best meet customer demand under the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR), Specialty Coffee Business Unite (SCBU) family of brands.”

Per the Green Mountain announcement, Emeril’s Keurig K-Cup lineup, and the popular Timothy’s Kahlua Original Coffee K-Cup are exempt from this discontinuation notice.

It has been stated that the changes in product availability are necessary to simplify business by “offering a consistent supply of products that best meet consumer demand.”

List of comparable/suggested replacements, after the jump.

As of August 1, 2011, the following Keurig K-Cups will no longer be in production, and are now available in limited supply.

CS – Celestial Seasonings
GJ – Gloria Jean’s
GMC – Green Mountain Coffee
TIM – Timothy’s
FT – Fair Trade
FTO – Fair Trade Organic