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Paradise Tea still offered at Coffee Wholesale in larger filter packs!

Posted on August 29, 2012 by alex

Paradise Tea still offered at Coffee Wholesale in 1 ounce filter packs

Have you been looking for your favorite tropical tea in the little yellow box and you haven’t been able to find it?

The tea you fell in love with from the Cheesecake Factory, Trader Joes, Nordstrom’s Cafe, Superior Coffee Shop, and other retail outlets is no longer being manufactured in the smaller “retail” size filter packs that you’ve grown accustomed to.

While we’re not sure why the manufacturer decided to discontinue this popular item, there is good news…  Your favorite tea (Paradise Original Tropical) is still available at Coffee Wholesale USA (www.cw-usa.com) in larger 1-ounce iced tea filter packs.  Yes, it’s the same tea, just more of it!

The smaller filter packs (that were discontinued) were designed to brew a 48-ounce pitcher of Paradise tea.  The larger filter packs (that are still available) are designed to brew 1 to 2 gallons of delicious fresh-brewed tropical iced tea, depending on how strong you prefer it.  The 1-ounce filter packs come in Original Tropical, Original Tropical Decaf, Tropical Green, and China Black (unflavored).  Unfortunately, the Paradise Passion Fruit tea is no longer available in any pack size.

Paradise Flavored Ice Tea has been served since 1989 and has had overwhelming success, winning numerous awards including Chefs in America Foundation. The tea has a 4.9 out of 5 star rating by our customers. Paradise tea is made from the finest Ceylon Tea and special flowers making it naturally semi-sweet without sugar, and an all time favorite for ice tea lovers throughout the nation.

Coffee Wholesale USA (www.cw-usa.com) is a leading online coffee, tea, snack and equipment supplier to wholesale and retail customers.

See below for for Paradise Tea brewing tips and tricks, or feel free to contact Coffee Wholesale USA (www.cw-usa.com) for more information on how to brew Paradise Tea using the larger filter packs.

Directions to brew the perfect Paradise Iced Tea gallon:

  • Start with a clean empty brew basket, if possible one that is dedicated to ice tea brewing
  • Place easy brew bag in the brew basket, no additional filter is necessary
  • Brew as you would ground coffee (using 64oz of water)
  • When finished brewing, carefully remove brew basket and discard used tea filterpack
  • Place the brewed concentrate in a one gallon or larger container and dilute with 64oz of ice-cold water… this “shocks” the tea, locking in it’s delicious tea flavor
  • Fill your ice tea glass ¾ full with ice
  • Garnish with your favorite fresh fruit… Orange slices are the best compliment to the tropical blend
  • Sit back and enjoy!

 

 

 

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Coffee Product Highlight – Bunn Home On/Off Warmer Control Switch

Posted on July 27, 2012 by alex

While Coffee Wholesale USA sells a lot of whole bean coffee, ground coffee, coffee equipment, and tea, we also sell coffee parts and accessories. One of the leading coffee parts that we sell happens to be the Bunn Home On/Off Warmer Control Switch (lighted).

Coffee Wholesale USA has a great relationship with Bunn and we sell genuine Bunn replacement parts. You can find the Bunn switch by visiting www.cw-usa.com and searching for part number 25-7014.

We are excited to offer Bunn parts and accessories and will continue to serve this niche market in a cost effective way by offering free shipping on the Bunn control switch and delivering directly to the customer’s home, office, or business.

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Coffee in the Olympics – Why Not!

Posted on July 26, 2012 by alex

With the 2012 summer Olympics right around the corner, we wanted to give our opinion on a current depate – coffee should be allowed by Olympians.

While some believe that coffee should be banned entirely from the Olympics to make sure there is a level playing field for all athletes, we believe the natural properties of coffee should be endorsed as a great way for athletes to stay sharp during some of the most competitive moments of their lives.

While some bring this to the extreme and want coffee drinking as it’s own Olympic sport, let’s start with just making sure Olympians can drink coffee. Check out this you tube video http://youtu.be/9gWNeb6pNpk

Coffee drinking should not only be allowed during the Olympics, athletes should be clamoring to get any edge they can before competing.

 

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Drink Coffee, Live Longer!

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

A new study shows that two cups of coffee per day may decrease the odds of heart failure.

Luckily, here at Coffee Wholesale, we take the doctor’s orders very seriously and drink lots of coffee every day!  We have recently started using coffee pods and love them!  Not only is the coffee good for you, but the coffee pods are environmentally friendly with great taste and that good old fashioned coffee brewing smell!  Wolfgang Puck has done a great job with their coffee pod selection and Bunn has the best pod brewer on the market with the My Cafe.

 

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Reguluh Coffee Please

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

In New York City, it is customary to order your coffee Black, Light, Extra-Light, or Black-and-Sweet. However, coffee with milk and sugar is a “Regular Coffee.”

After living in New York City for several years, I visited a town out west and ordered “regular coffee”. They handed me, of course, black coffee. I forgot – outside of NYC, there is no such concept as “regular coffee.”

Kind of like egg-creams (known elsewhere as “Italian Sodas” with soda water instead of seltzer!). I still don’t know how coffee with milk and sugar became known as “regular coffee” except that maybe “that’s how REGULUH GUYS drink it.”

 

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How To Get Out of KP (Kitchen Patrol)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

My dad told me a story about how, during World War II, he was assigned to “Kitchen Patrol” (KP). One particular day, his job to fill the coffee carafes and set them on each table. He saw these large vats and filled all of the carafes.

Within minutes of setting the carafes on the table, my dad heard a lot of screaming and saw men spitting all around him. An instant later, the cook ran out of the kitchen yelling, “Who drained the beets? My damn beets are burning.”

With that, my Dad realized what he’d done. He had filled the carafes with beet water and not coffee! After the men got their “real” coffee, all was well in the mess hall. Needless to say, they never again asked Dad to fill coffee carafes. I suppose that’s one way to get out of KP duty…

 

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Toffee, Clea, or Me?

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

Years ago, as a young new teacher, I helped at parents’ night by filling and pouring coffee and tea from two large silver (fancy ones – that’s probably why I got in trouble) tea pots.

Unfortunately, it was a boring task, which is always my excuse to think about something else, and I totally lost track of which pot was which. I topped both pots off before realizing that I had created two pots, both with a mix of coffee AND tea.

Since school coffee is NOTORIOUSLY bad, it didn’t seem that big a deal, so I asked people if they wanted “Toffee” or “Clea” just because it was fun to watch the look on their faces (remember I was bored).

But the joke was on me. They obediently got their cups filled, walked off drinking and eating the equally bad cookies, and never knew the difference. Maybe it improved the sorry lot!

 

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Even a Bunn Takes a Vacation Now and Then

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

I thought I lost my Bunn! Was I ever distraught. I tried everything: a different outlet, the circuit breakers. Yet nothing would bring my Bunn back to life. Oh no! I had to drink INSTANT COFFEE!!!

Then, as though inspired from above, yes, could it be? Ah ha! Someone had accidentally tripped the vacation switch to OFF!! (I’ll deal with them later). My Bunn was okay! O happy day!

Just thought I’d share how much my Bunn home coffee maker means to me.

 

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Varooooooom Cream Please

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

My husband, who is not familiar with the standard lingo of American coffee houses, did not know that when ordering a coffee drink you need to tell them “with room for cream”. That way they don’t fill your cup up too high and you can still fit your cream into your cup.

So, I send him off and tell him to order an Americano “with room for cream”. Well, he didn’t hear me too clearly and walked up to the corner coffee house and said, “I would like an Americano with varoom cream.”

Needless to say the order taker had no idea what he was referring to.

 

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Pour-o-Matics, Housekeepers & Land-o-Fills

Posted on June 27, 2012 by alex

I live in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and had just returned from a delightful holiday trip to see my kids in Florida. But not one decent cup of coffee during the whole trip.

I was craving my Bunn Pour-o-Matic and a fresh pot of freshly ground Colombian coffee. But, as I was soon to find out, it was not to be!

Evidently the “shower head” (spray head) attachment to my trusty brewing buddy had chosen that moment to detach itself from the unit – into two pieces. Thing is, water pours much more rapidly into the brew basket without the screw-on spray head.

Well, after cleaning up a countertop full of hot water and coffee grinds, I tried to re-attach said head. No! “No coffee for you”. So, I raced to the closest discount store – the only one around for 30 miles in these parts – and forced myself to purchase a Mr. (gag) Coffee unit for lack of any Bunn product.

Now I have had a great relationship with Bunn, and knew that with a couple of phone calls or a quick note on the Internet I’d be able to get a replacement spray head. But no such luck this time around. I couldn’t find a parts place anywhere.

So there I sat, drinking this watery beige looking swill that calls itself coffee but isn’t suited to stain the seats of my truck. I wanted my Bunn back!

But, in the meantime, a young lady who helps out around here had taken my Pour-o-Matic to the local Land-o-Fill thinking that it had burned out or had lost it’s will to brew. Gads! I raced to the dump to stop it all. But by the time I got there, I only had time to see my trusty coffee crony get crushed by a giant mound of car parts!

Yes, my trusty Bunn companion had perished beneath a mountain of metal. Gaaaaaahhhh! I screamed not being able to even kiss my sweet Bunn “bye-bye”. Weak java and tepid tea is my fate! Curse the housekeeper…(fade to black).

Anyone out there want to send me a new one? Let me know the replacement charge or shipping amount. I know these are not covered by any kind of coffee insurance but one thing is for sure – I really liked that coffee maker.

 

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