News from Gourmet Source:

Warm Holiday wishes and a safe and Happy New Year!

December 29th, 2011 by Anna Gutierrez

With 2011 coming to a close, we at Gourmet Source hope you and yours had a great holiday season! We know that it’s because of wonderful customers like you we can cheers to a great year and another to come in 2012. Thank you for your business and friendships!

Happy Holidays and we hope you have a safe and happy time ringing in the New Year!

Your Gourmet Source Team,
Grant, Doug, Kurt, Heather, Anna and Rhonda

Coffee and Chemistry?

November 29th, 2011 by Anna Gutierrez

How many of us use chemistry on a daily basis? Now, how do you think you could incorporate chemistry into what we do each day in the coffee industry? To be honest, chemistry is all around us from how coffee and cacao beans are roasted, how our syrups are manufactured, the extraction of flavors from espresso and every other alternative brew method as well as how our espresso machines work. If we take the time to really understand it, how much better do you think we would be at our jobs and how we relay that information and train others in our industry?

The SCAA (Specialty Coffee Association of America www.scaa.org) is proud to announce that they have a new Coffee Science Manager, Emma Bladyka, and she wants to challenge YOU with this quiz on coffee chemistry and also ask you a few questions about how this subject may apply to your work.

To add to the challenge and get an accurate reading of how much we all retained from our high school or college classes, please resist the urge to look up the science answers online!

Take the quiz here:
http://svy.mk/sqtqTx

Happy testing!!!