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Congrats to Jennifer, the winner of our Keurig B40 Giveaway! Enjoy your new single cup coffee maker and be sure to come back and let us know how you like it.

Keep an eye out for more giveaways to come…

Enter to win a FREE KEURIG® ELITE B40 single cup coffee brewer (a retail
value $99.99). No purchase is neccesary to win. Entrant must reside in the 48 continental
United States.

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Need a little pick me up? Grab a cup of coffee and muse over these interesting bits of trivia about the drink that the world consumes 400 billion cups of every year.

• Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, second only to oil in trade volume.
• On average, humans only absorb 300 mg of caffeine at a given time, no matter how much caffeine they take in.
• At Egyptian funerals, coffee is served strong and black, and at weddings, it is served sweetened and less strong.
• German King Frederick hired dogs to sniff out coffee amongst the troops, who he believed were not dependable under the influence of coffee. The coffee-finding unit was called the Kaffee Schnufflers and ultimately failed when King Frederick’s own affinity for coffee won out.
• Coffee beans are actually grown in berries. Each berry contains two beans.
• Voltaire, the French writer and philosopher is rumored to have consumed 50 cups of coffee a day.

Perfect Coffee Cup

Physicists in Germany have invented what they say is the “perfect coffee cup.” What does this mean for your daily cup of coffee? Your favorite drink can now stay the perfect temperature longer, thanks to some crafty thermodynamics.

Many factors influence the taste and quality of a cup of coffee, including the grind, blend, roast and drip. But one of the most crucial elements of coffee is its temperature. Coffee is best served at approximately 58 degrees Celsius. Even when coffee is served at this temperature initially, it quickly cools when exposed to the air at the mouth of the coffee cup.

The “perfect coffee cup” works by absorbing some of the coffee’s initial heat into the swirls of aluminum inside the ceramic of the mug. As coffee cools, the mug releases some of the heat back into the contents of the mug. Not only does your coffee stay close to 58 degrees Celsius longer, but the design of the mug also ensures that it starts that way, too.

Peet’s Coffee & Tea announced late Monday that it would acquire Deidrich in a deal valued at about $213 million in cash and stock, marking the company’s foray into the single serve coffee market.

“The Diedrich acquisition represents another major strategic growth initiative for our consumer packaged coffee business,” Patrick O’Dea, Peet’s chief executive, said in a statement.

Investors were happy…Diedrich shares rose to more than $25 a share in after-hours trading.

Diedrich Coffee has been a roaster of high quality Arabica coffees from around the world since 1912, and offers several Keurig K-Cup blends. In fact, this year Diedrich decided to focus on its coffee wholesale business and on its role as a producer of K-Cups for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and its Keurig single-cup coffee maker.

That decision has been good for the company’s stock as well, which is trading at 10,000% higher than it’s low in early 2009.

Peet’s has been facing pressure from investors for quite some time on its plans to enter the single serve market, accoriding to Oppenheimer analyst Matthew DiFrisco.