Product Reviews

Ian on March 2nd, 2010

Today enquiring minds at Fair Trade Coffee Review want to know if you think MacDonalds free coffee is overpriced?? To tell you the truth, I have not had a regular hot coffee from MacDonalds in probably 20 years. I guess that one, was that bad! A summer or two ago, they promoted their iced coffee [...]

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Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at another one of Reunion Island’s coffees, the Ethiopia Oromia fair trade organic coffee. This coffee is listed as a medium body and the beans are not over roasted or oily. They are a light brown nut color with a pleasant aroma. The coffee was quite a surprise. [...]

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Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at another one of Reunion Island’s coffees, the Privateer Dark fair trade organic coffee. When I opened the package, I first noticed a nice dark aroma, but also that some of the beans seemed overroasted…

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Ian on December 1st, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at Mystic Monk’s Midnight Vigils Blend fair trade organic coffee…

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Ian on November 17th, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at Shock Coffee’s fair trade organic blend coffee. If you are dragging your butt out of bed and need a real kick start, try some Shock fair trade organic blend! This blend contains almost double the caffeine as a regular cup of coffee. They also carry an Energy [...]

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Ian on November 4th, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at Reunion Island’s French Roast fair trade organic coffee. You know those weekend mornings when you’d like to sleep in, but the birds chirping outside your window wake you up and you just can’t get back to sleep. You go downstairs and suddenly it hits you, that quiet [...]

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Ian on October 22nd, 2009

Last week I talked about How to Make a Good Cup of Fair Trade Coffee and pointed out the benefits of using freshly ground beans. Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is providing its opinion of coffee grinders in its coffee grinder review. There is a diverse price range when it comes to coffee grinders, so [...]

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Ian on October 20th, 2009

Today Fair Trade Coffee Review is looking at William Spartivento Kona Blend fair trade coffee. This is not a Kona coffee, but a blend with South American fair trade beans done to a full city roast. Rich and creamy! There are mornings when you need a thick, rich, creamy coffee, well this coffee can certainly [...]

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Ian on October 8th, 2009

Today let’s look outside the coffee world to other areas of Fair Trade. There’s an organization in the U.S. and Canada called Ten Thousand Villages that sells wonderful fair trade products such as jewelry, home decor, and gifts. From tenthousandvillages.com: Discover a World Of Difference. At Ten Thousand Villages, we work with over 130 artisan [...]

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Ian on October 6th, 2009

Today my review is on Peet’s Coffee Fair Trade Blend. From Peet’s Coffee about their Fair Trade Coffee Blend : “Six hundred families, none farming more than a few acres, operate a mill we know well in Tarrazú, one of the best places in Costa Rica to grow coffee, and certainly the steepest. When this cooperative, [...]

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