Closed until we have power!
December 26, 2009 by baldguy · Leave a Comment
Well, the ice storm that hit Boone, NC has just wreaked havoc for most of the county. At last count, 44% of the county is without power…including the Bald Guy Brew International Head-Quarters. Not sure when we will be operational, especially since a smaller snow storm is due to hit on Sunday.
If you order coffee, it might be delayed, but I’ll get to it when I can. In the mean time, we hope that ya’ll have a wonderful holiday!
Late night coffee delivery to Stickboy
December 21, 2009 by baldguy · Leave a Comment
Just a quick note to let ya’ll know that I just dropped off 18lbs of various varietals for your caffeinated pleasure: Bali, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Colombian, Guatemalan, Papau New Guinea.
If you are needing a last minute christmas gift, head over to Stickboy and grab ya some great baked goods and some gourmet coffee…I’m sure whoever is the lucky recipient of such a fine gift will not be disappointed!
Pancakes, BGB, and a great cause to do good!
December 11, 2009 by baldguy · Leave a Comment
This coming Saturday (12-12-09) between 7:30 to 11:30 am, the Watauga Education Foundation will be holding a pancake breakfast and raffle to provide classroom grants for creative initiatives that fall outside the state and local budgets, funds continuing education for teachers, funds Battle of the Books, produces Shooting Stars and is bringing Imagination Library—a program to get books into children’s hands even before they can read—for Watauga County Schools.
From the beginning we (Bald Guy and Mrs. Bald Guy) have always found a way to help young children. It isn’t like we are providing a ton of gourmet, organice coffee, but it is a START…kinda like the kid who was running up and down the beach tossing star fish back into the sea. One of his buddies yelled out “you can save them all”!. The young lad picked up one star fish and tossed it into the sea and yelled back: “but I can save this one”!
From our time working in urban areas both in Mexico, Rwanda, Peru, and Pittsburgh to rural areas like Boone, NC., we know that we can’t help everyone, but we like to think we can at least try. So, if you don’t have much to do, find $6.00 and go eat some pancakes and help raise some money that will go to a great cause!
Retro Bald Guy Brew Gear is here
December 7, 2009 by baldguy · Leave a Comment
Well, we received the shipment from planetary design today only to find that the logo was not inverted!
This isn’t the first time that this happened…actually, it happens all the time. Therefore, we are offering to you a rare opportunity to buy a sure fire collector’s item: The Bald Guy Brew Retro Travel Mug!
I will post a new page with buying options for beanies, hoodies, ceramic mugs, long sleeve tees, and gourmet coffee here shortly!
Stay tuned…
Random coffee facts of interest
December 6, 2009 by baldguy · 1 Comment
So, you know you are bored when you start to write up random facts concerning coffee. Not that I am a coffee geek, I do have other interests, but I did find some of the ones in this list to be quite interesting. In any case, have fun and remember to “slip slowly”.
1. 65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics.
2. Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
3. In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.
4. 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.
5. October 1st is official “Coffee Day” in Japan.
6. Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.
7. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)
8. Brazil produces around 40% of the world’s coffee supply.
9. A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.
10. Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
11. Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.
12. More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.
13. There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.
14. 75% of the world’s coffee comes from the Coffea Arabica plant.
15. Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.
16. In days gone by, Turkish bridegroom had to promise that they would always provide their new wives with coffee.
17. Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
18. Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
19. An expert in preparing Turkish coffee is known as a “kahveci”.
20. The Nicaraguan Margogpipe is the largest of all coffee beans.
21. It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
22. One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
23. A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
24. Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.
Bald Guy Gear is almost here!
December 2, 2009 by baldguy · Leave a Comment