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The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter
By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
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The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party

Your next dinner party will be better with a caffeinated kick, and coffee concentrate makes a variety of tasty drinks and desserts easy.

By Nickolaus Hines
KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat
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KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat

KOW Steaks might just be the best beef we've every enjoyed.

By John A. Paradiso
The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon
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The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon

In my house, there are two distinct coffee moments each day: the 7 a.m. brew and the 3 p.m. treat. The former is a slow, deliberate, and tactile experience with tools I love getting my hands on—grinding beans in a Fellow Ode Brew and filling up a Moccamaster. I stand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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10 Light Beers That Taste Anything But

When it comes to the beer world, there are few phrases more shrouded in negativity than “light beer.” These words are like the proverbial nails on the chalkboard to many beer drinkers. This is because the phrase conjures up images of yellow, fizzy, borderline flavorless beer that tastes more like…

By Christopher Osburn
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The 3 Best Cocktails To Put in a Flask

Flasks are perfect for whiskey and other straight spirits. But sometimes you want something that brings different flavors and a lower ABV. Enter the flask cocktail. When it comes to times that it'd be nice to have a cocktail in a flask, I’m thinking first of weddings. There are plenty…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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10 Bargain Rums Under $30 That Taste More Expensive Than They Are

Rum is a distilled spirit made by fermenting and distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. It’s then bottled and sold as white rum or matured in oak barrels (and sometimes spiced). Rum is made almost everywhere in the world where sugarcane is grown. Obviously, the Caribbean and places like Jamaica,…

By Christopher Osburn
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Meticulous’ Espresso Maker is a Coffee Machine of the Future

I'm ambivalent when it comes to the robotic age we're living through. Sometimes it alarms me how fast we're moving by way of AI. But, with that said, I can't deny the that Meticulous has created a robot that I'd happily invite into my home, making space in my kitchen…

By Brett Braley
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The 10 Best Belgian Beers Every Beer Lover Should Try

When it comes to European beers, there are a handful of countries that get more love than all the others. We’re talking about the Czech Republic (or Czechia), The UK, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, and of course Belgium. While every country has its fair share of historical beers and great…

By Christopher Osburn
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