Friday, December 21, 2012

Fa lalalalalala ... Christmas bells are ringing ...

I always love the week before Christmas. I love that the shop comes alive with new and old faces, we love being busy, and there is a joy behind helping our customers find the perfect gift.
Coffee brings people together, not just at Christmas time but throughout the year; to having conversation over a cup of coffee, reading the newspaper before a long days work, or sharing moments with friends on your down time (or day off), there is something magical behind a coffeeshop, and it's coffee. Its a hub where people come together in a comfortable environment and share life over cups of coffee.



"Coffee is real good when you drink it it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup."                       
~Gertrude Stein


We hope this holiday season that you have time to sip your cups of coffee and share life with your loved ones. The New Year brings so much opportunity and refreshing joy, we hope you can share these days and the ones to come drinking Coffee Times coffee with us. :)

Merry Christmas from your local coffee shop!
And CHEERS to a new year!!
love,
your Coffee Times staff
 

Friday, December 14, 2012

gift guide for the COFFEE and TEA lover.

If you have a COFFEE or TEA lover in your life, we've got great gifts for you this season.
Everyone is looking for the perfect gift this year for their special person, and if that person loves coffee and tea we have the special gift for them.
 
For your tea lover ...
We have an incredible tea selection from the Metropolitan Tea Company, that gets the best tea from all over the world!
We carry a wide variety of loose leaf tea, especially for someone who is trying out tea and not sure what they want you can purchase smaller quantities. We also have tea infusers for steeping tea, we have 2" and 3" infuser balls and some decorative ones too! We've got Price & Kensington teapots and accessories, which come in vibrant colors and some have infusers included.
 
For your coffee lover ...
We have fresh roasted coffee! What else could you want? We roast on site, so nothing is ever stale or old. We also flavor all the coffee on site too (at LCT), by hand. So we add a little love into everything that we do and serve at Coffee Times.


So we have a large variety on our sales floor for our customers, anything you want from espresso blends to dark, bolder roasts to something a little lighter like a medium roast. To go with your fresh roasted coffee we also have lots of brewing mechanisms. Toody, Aeropress, BUNN, Capresso, Bodum, Bonjour, Hario, and Chemex to name a few brands we carry here at the shop.


What does your coffee or tea lover have on their Christmas list?
 Maybe we can help. We love to share our knowledge and help!


Stop by and let us help you find the perfect gift for the holidays!! 



Friday, December 7, 2012

Gift Giving!!

If you are gift giving this year ...
you have to come to Coffee Times!
 


With Christmas right around the corner we have some great ideas for your gift giving this year.
Stocking stuffers, ornaments, brewing mechanism, and great gift boxes of coffee and tea already wrapped and ready to give!
 
Coffee & Tea?
 
This year we've wrapped and preground awesome coffee boxes to grab and GO! With a great select of coffee in each of them for any coffee drinker! Includes 4-1/3 pounds of automatic drip ground coffee, a scoop, wrapped in classy Christmas paper
Winter Wonderland: the flavored box; it contains Mistletoe Jo (a unique blend of cinnamon, hazelnut, vanilla, and almond), Chocolate Hazelnut, Mexi-Cafe (cinnamon and chocolate, anyone?), and Reindeer Rum (a spiced vanilla rum).
JOY to the WORLD: The around the World box with coffees from different growing regions. It includes Guatemalan (South American), Tanzania Peaberry (African), Maui (Hawaiian), and Indonesian City Roast (a Sumatran bean roasted to a City Roast ... so from Indonesia).
Peace on Earth: All fair trade and organic coffees. This box is great with FTO blend, Fair Trade Colombian, Fair Trade Guatemalan, and Organic Peruvian included. A delicious gift!
I'll have a Big Blue Christmas: A delicious gift box filled with all the favorites! Big Blue Blend, Bluegrass Breakfast, KY Bourbon, and Bourbon Ball. Perfect for UK fans or even someone who loves a little Bluegrass!
12 Days of Christmas: the variety box! A gift box for anyone! 6 regular coffees and 6 flavored coffees all in 1 potters, so it'll make 1 FULL pot of coffee. A yummy surprise!
And ... O'Christmas Tea: a little different from the coffee box including 5-1/8 pounds of tea. Vanilla Chai (warm chai with a little milk makes this tea perfect for a cold night!), Earl Grey Green (who doesn't love that Bergamot taste?), On the Waterfront (an herbal peppermint tea with hints of rose and peach), Orient Express (fruity and cinnamon mix), and Evergreen and Red (our secret blend of black, green, and red teas).