![]() ![]() And way over yonder is Coffee! Coffee! Buzz Buzz Buzz (1996-1999), a casualty that, in hindsight, should have been ample warning preceding the dot.com meltdown. We can only hazard poor guesses about what went awry for Bovinity Divinity(1998-2001). Over there lies Miz Jelena's Sweet Potato Pie (1992-1993). Over here is interred Peanut Butter & Jelly (1998-1999). Some look for some past favorite flavor that faltered in the mass market. It is a tranquil place, surrounded by a plastic white picket fence, and people walk among the fake tombstone placards in quiet reverence. The company has eliminated hundreds of flavors, but the Graveyard only has 40 headstones, perhaps enough to get the point across. Every year eight to twelve - those with the lowest sales - are "killed" and become candidates for this fatland Boot Hill, which opened in 1997. The Graveyard exists because of Ben & Jerry's never-ending experimentation with odd ice cream flavors some are just too odd for their own good. The most playfully gruesome aspect of the factory is its Flavor Graveyard, on a hill in back of the plant, beyond the bulk milk tanks. After all, how much ice cream can one person eat? But those crazy thoughts pass by the time every one reaches the Tasting Room - free samples are dispensed in little paper dispensers. ![]() Three pints a day? Older tour members swiftly calculate how such a perk might have changed their own pitiful lives kids are ready to cut grade school and run away to the Spiral Hardener. The plant churns out 110 pints a minute, 190,000 pints a day all of the milk and cream comes from Vermont family farm cows with no rBGH growth hormones the Spiral Hardener conveyor chills every pint for two hours at -40 degrees (-70 with the wind chill) the ice cream is packed in unbleached paperboard containers to spare the environment from "nasty toxic dioxins " and each Ben & Jerry's employee gets three pints of free ice cream a day. Along the way they are bombarded with an odd mix of Ben & Jerry's manufacturing statistics and hippie propaganda: The tour itself is brief, giving visitors an elevated view of the factory floor and ending with a "taste test" of samples from whatever ice cream flavors the plant produced that day. Eventually one in every 100 Vermont families owned shares, ensuring that the ice cream factory would remain a popular vacation stop for decades to come. Want to check out our other blends? Click here to go back to the list.The tour begins with a video in the "Cow Over The Moon Theater," which tells the story of Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield: how they met in 7th grade gym class, took a $5 dollar correspondence course about ice-cream making, renovated an old gas station in Burlington for their first store and, most importantly, sold stock to Vermonters in 1984 to pay for their factory. One devoted fan said, “I wouldn’t drink it before bed time.” But hey, everyone’s different and who knows, it may just become your favourite postprandial (I’ve been waiting years to use that word in a sentence!) drink. So premium Sumatra Lintong plus premium Indian Robusta equals a cup you can enjoy anytime. In fact, while Buzz Bomb is power packed, it is a surprisingly smooth cup of coffee. And this particular Indian Robusta is considered by many to be the world’s best tasting, smoothest Robusta. ![]() Also the Robusta we use is from India, not Vietnam–the world’s largest Robusta producer. And drinking a straight cup of Robusta is definitely a significant taste departure from a cup of Arabica.īut with Buzz Bomb you’re not drinking a full cup of Robusta, you’re drinking predominantly Arabica with a specific amount (that’s our secret, okay) of Robusta blended in to enhance the flavour. Robusta has about twice the caffeine content of Arabica coffee so it really helps you to get your buzz on. “Isn’t that the type of coffee that is so crammed with caffeine that if I drank a cup my feet might not ever touch the ground again!?! And isn’t Robusta harsh tasting?” Yes, you are correct on both counts. We’ve mixed in a healthy dose of rich and earthy Sumatra Lintong coffee with a big dollop of Indian Robusta coffee. Buzz Bomb Coffee – This is our ‘you’ll never sleep again’ blend.
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