Coffee Connoisseurs Reveal Their Surprising Supermarket Finds

Ken and Kevin go to the grocery store to try all big brand names of whole bean coffee. Episode 1 of 7 gives and overview about these coffees including the use of Nitrogen Flush to keep coffee fresh. Footage curtesy of PAC Machinery www.pacmachinery.com/

Renowned coffee-tasting expert Kenneth Davids will lead viewers in a blind tasting of five Burundi coffees from five outstanding coffee-roasting companies. Ken has been involved in coffee since the early 1970s and has published four books on coffee, including Home Roasting: Romance and Revival, now in its second edition, and Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing and Enjoying, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies in five editions. His most recent book is 21st Century Coffee: A Guide.

This series is hosted by brewing expert Kevin Sinnott. Kevin is a Chicagoland comic trained by Second City. He is also the host and creator of Coffee Con Festival, a roving coffee festival established in 2011 that has hosted over twenty festivals nationwide in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco.

Each set of Coffeeist episodes focuses on five coffees that are related in some way, usually by having been grown in the same region of the world. Viewers watch and learn as Ken and Kevin taste each of the five coffees and together discover their character in the cup and discuss the reasons they taste the way they do.

This current series of episodes focuses on big name grocery store coffee, its unique characteristics.