Good morning! Hopefully you had the opportunity to gobble-gobble down some Thanksgiving ham or turkey with all the trimmings this past weekend. And since it's Tuesday, you should be well past the tryptophan induced coma that inevitable follows this post-holiday feast.
Many of you who shopped at the store in preparation for your Thanksgiving dinner looking for Island Farms Whipping Cream were likely disappointed to discover that none was on our shelves. Regrettably, this was because the company had none to give us. It was not the result of Pepper's failing to order it. But we still apologize for any invonvenience that this may have caused.
Alright, so now that Thanksgiving has passed, we can look forward to Halloween. Our store is decorated with lots of spooky props but we also have a large selection of treats for you to hand out on the 31st. Look for our display in from of the third till.
Pepper's now carries BLENDED, organic coffee from the Doi Chaang Coffee Company. Not to be confused with their single estate premium coffee, this more affordable line has Doi Chaang's delicious and signature coffee from Thailand blended with coffee beans from Peru, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sumatra and Africa depending on the type. This except from coffeekind.com explains the reasoning behind the blending of coffee:
Why would you blend different varieties of coffee together? Well, have you ever sipped a Costa Rican coffee and wished that it had just a little more body and richness to it? Do you love the deep, rich notes of a traditional Sulawesi but miss the bright citrus acidity of a Kenyan coffee? When you blend single-origin coffees together, you can tailor the cup to precisely match your preferences by choosing coffees that complement and enhance each other.
There are three major reasons that coffee roasters—and we’re talking about everyone, including the huge commercial enterprises whose products grace supermarket shelves—create coffee blends: to reduce costs, to provide a consistent cup profile and to create unique, signature coffees.
Customers expect a brand of coffee to taste the same from one cup to the next. Since qualities like body and flavor can differ markedly between farms, regions and even harvests from the same farms, the only way to ensure consistent flavor is to blend coffees from several different regions in order to minimize the differences among them. While consistency may be one of the factors considered when specialty and artisan roasters blend coffees as well, their main goal in blending is to create a specific flavor profile. This is where the true artistry of coffee blending lies—in discovering and melding the unique qualities of two or more coffees to create a new coffee that is more than the sum of its parts.
And in addition to Doi Chaang bean coffee, we now also stock Doi Chaang Single Serve Coffee Pods that are 90% biodegradable. These pods are for customers who use Keurig and Keurig 2.0 coffee makers.
Many consumers would prefer to purchase unpasturized honey if they had the opportunity and so we've now provided that very option! BeeMaid Raw Honey is a Canadian, unpasturized honey which means that it's not been processed from its natural state. Essentially, no heat has been added to the honey which will kill any yeast cells present in it. But heating the honey to the required minimum 72 degrees C needed for pasteurization can also cause the deteriorization of the colour, flavour, aroma and enzymes found in the honey. So now you can get honey as it came right from the honeycomb! But remember, NEVER feed honey to children under the age of one due to the risk of botulism.
Finally, we have added Carr's Variety Pack Crackers to the shelves. Shopping for your next dinner party or social function just got that much easier and you'll save some money by not having to buy your crackers packages individually!
That's all we have for you this week. Make sure you take a look at the attached flyer for this week's sale items and we look forweard to seeing you in the aisles!
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