Video For The Week Of July 25, 2011

Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever

The featured video for Dark Roast Coffee this week is filled with trivia and interesting facts about our favorite beverage. It is enlightening and funny. The video gives you some interesting facts that you may or not be aware of, so pour up a cup of your favorite dark roast blend and watch it. I hope you enjoy it.



Thanks for stopping by and may your next cup be your best!

Boyer's French Roast Dark Roast Coffee - Review

French Roast by Boyer's

The first taste of this coffee puts a pleasant bitterness on the tip of your tongue. As you sip more of this brew and you get more familiar with it, the flavor grows on you. It has a slightly earthy quality that is very subtle. This is one coffee that is very easy to drink without any sweetener. It doesn't have the depth of French Roast from Starbucks of Seattle's Best, but it is a very pleasant brew to drink, indeed.


Boyer's has traditionally made very good coffee, and I have drank it several times and have always been very satisfied with their offerings. I purchased this particular coffee at a Sam's Club and got it for a very good price.

On a Scale of one to 10, I would rate this coffee about an 8.8 - this coffee is very dependable and it gives you excellent value for the money spent.

With the addition of sweetener this coffee gets even better. I've had this coffee with milk chocolate and it is wonderful stuff.

Thanks for coming by and may your next cup be your best!

Video For The Week Of July 18, 2011

This Is Coffee - Video

I am starting a new addition to Dark Roast Coffee. Each week, I will find a video for your pleasure and information.

This week's choice is a video from 1961, titled "This is Coffee." It has some interesting information, including video of coffee beans being harvested and processed.

I hope you will enjoy it. Comment and let me know what you want to see videos of, or just leave me your opinion of the week's video.

Thanks for coming by and may your next cup be your best!

Oxo Stainless Steel LiquiSeal Travel Mug Review

Review of Oxo Stainless Steel LiquiSeal Travel Mug

Several months ago I reviewed a plastic travel mug manufactured by Oxo. It is an excellent mug but it has a couple of drawbacks:

• It only keeps coffee hot for a couple of hours
• The lid can fill up with grime that cannot be cleaned out

The good folks at Oxo Softworks have a vacuum insulated stainless version of this mug that can be opened up for cleaning and can keep coffee drinkable for over 4 hours (see temperature chart).

I used this mug for a few days and one morning it disappeared - I discovered my wife had grabbed it for her use. Both of us were impressed by the mug. The triple silicone seals in the
OXO Stainless Steel Mug work as well as they do in the plastic mug, and it has the advantage of having an easy to clean lid. The inner seal has an arrow showing you how to loosen it for clean up. It isn't a perfect solution, but it is a vast improvement.

The mug has a 13.5 ounce capacity and a very comfortable non-slip grip just below the lid. Like the previously reviewed mug, it opens and closes with a press of its push button seal.


The downside to this mug is that it is supposed to be hand washed and because it is stainless, you can not reheat your coffee in the microwave. Because of the ability to keep the coffee temperature for so long, this should not pose a problem if you put in coffee that is good and hot. I would rate this as a 9.5 on a scale of 10 - this is a great mug for taking your dark roast coffee along with you.


Click HERE to get an OXO Stainless Steel Mug