A Gourmet's Wisconsin Cupboard

Recipes and reviews of specialty gourmet foods made in Wisconsin.

23 February 2009

Wake Up And Smell The Coffee!


Monday morning. The bedside alarm rings. You groan, slap the button, roll over, and feel the guilt. You know you should be in the shower right now. But instead you pull the covers over your head. It's the oldest trick that never works - you think that if you can't see them, then they can't see you. And you're right, for a time. Nobody's looking for you, yet. But in just one hour, you'll have to be in the office, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to work - work - work!

So exactly how is this miracle of human metamorphosis going to happen? Is there a magic spell, a pretty, pink pill? No, something better. Something that not only catapults you out of slumberland, but jolts you with explosive enthusiasm for all of the day's glorious possibilities. AND this something tastes TERRIFIC! What is it?
COFFEE
Yes, that delicious, brown brew. The elixir of the ages. The remedy for the soul's ennui.

What?!!! You don't like coffee? You never drink the stuff? Oh, how sad. What a shame. A life not fully lived. How could this oversight have happened?

But don't despair. All is not lost, yet. You have friends in Wisconsin. Friends who care about coffee; friends you care about you. And their names are Pete and Jeff Berres, - the two brothers who ARE Berres Brothers Coffee in Watertown, Wisconsin. The Berres brothers have followed in their dad's footsteps, expanded his coffee business, and now seek out the world's finest coffee beans, roast them fresh in small batches, and offer them for sale. Right now Jeff has to handle the business solo because Pete is serving in Iraq. Pete sends word home to his family that he misses them and is eager to return to roasting coffee. In return, his family sends him their love, and packets of coffee to tied him over. (Talk about not looking forward to work on a Monday morning. Yours could be a Monday in Baghdad.)

The Berres family has a large following of coffee enthusiasts. It's not just their friends who swear that the Berres Brothers' coffee brews up into THE best cup of coffee. Complete strangers order their coffee beans, again and again. A morning wouldn't shape up right without it.

Pete and Jeff sell their regular roasts, organic and flavored beans through Wisconsinmade.com so no one need ever face a Monday work morning with body-aching dread. Berres Brothers coffee IS Wisconsin's economic stimulus package.


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