In the last hours of 2012, we want to raise our mug and wish our customers a Happy New Year of great coffee and well-being. We have worked hard to up our game in 2012 at CoffeeForLess, providing more helpful infographics and articles to our customers and striving to provide the best prices on coffee beans that we could.

Our efforts to build a coffee community have really paid off, with our customers returning over and over again and offering great feedback and helpful reviews on the coffees that...

A distinction appears, even with a mild perusal of community chatter,  in the single cup coffee drinkers of our coffee community. Tassimo reviews on our site show some who enjoy the convenience of single serving  brewing clearly prefer their Tassimo machine, and they have their reasons. Others, just as passionately, hold their Keurig brewer dear as is evident in their impassioned reviews of various Keurig machines and K-Cup coffees.

While the two camps may seem to be a civil war amongst...

Starbucks has announced their new single serve coffee maker, the Verismo, and many are wondering if Keurig will soon have a serious competitor for their Keurig K-Cup systems. The truth of the matter though is that the Verismo is more similar to the Tassimo T-Discs coffee makers already on the market. While Keurig holds much loyalty in the single serve coffee maker market, the Verismo may well give Keurig stiff competition thanks to the mass brand recognition of Starbucks.

The Verismodoes not...

Many beverage consumers think of coffee when they think about single serving pods, but tea pods are a great way to brew a single serving of tea without the need of a separate kettle. Tea pods are also faster to brew and steep than traditional kettle and tea bag steeping, so if you value your time, then tea pods are a great way to enjoy tea quickly and efficiently.

Add to that the fact that tea pods are specifically programmed for optimal steeping, and tea pods represent an advance in tea steeping...

Proprietary single serve coffee makers are flooding the market, and while each may have its own character or advantages, the sheer number of them may confuse the consumer. This often leads to the question: which is the best single serve coffee maker? It is not an easily answered question, as it is a bit like asking someone the best coffee. Everyone has a different answer because coffee is such a personal experience, such a subjective preference, that we all consider our intimate perspective on...

If you're like me, you probably look at the reviews of any product that you see online before purchasing that product. If people like it, have a good experience, and can recommend a product, it's probably pretty good. This is the modern way to shop: with the consensus of the entire shopping community at your finger tips. This turns shopping into a personalized experience where you are advised by others like yourself rather than salespeople.

At CoffeeForLess, we truly want to improve the products...

Best Single Cup Coffee Maker

Trying to decide which K-Cup brewer is the best single cup coffee maker, we found that it really came down to two: Keurig Special Edition B60 K-Cup Brewer and the Keurig Mini Plus B31 K-Cup Brewer Platinum. We used a number of traits to determine what would be the best single cup coffee maker with the average coffee drinker in mind. Taking into account the ways in which different coffee drinkers brew their coffee, we sought to determine which K-Cup coffee maker is...