We have two NEW products from Ghirardelli:  White Mocha frappe (with coffee) and  Mocha frappe (with coffee)

  Containing real coffee, Ghirardelli Frappe Mix is the perfect base for convenient and indulgent iced blended mocha’s.

Promotion: Buy any one Ghirardelli frappe and get one FREE case of  new Ghirardelli flavor

*Buy any one case  Ghirardelli frappe powder and receive one case new flavor Frappe powder of you choice.

OR

*Buy any two cases Ghirardelli frappe powder and  receive one case of each new flavor.

**Promotion limited to one of each new flavor with purchase of your Ghirardelli frappe powders. That’s giving you a chance to try each new flavor for FREE. One offer per customer.

(For pricing or additional product information, please Contact Us. Thank you.)

We now carry:

DaVinci Fruit Innovations Lemonade

Big Train Shaken Lemonade

Dr. Smoothie 100% Crushed Fruit Lemonade

Jet Tea  Arctic Lemonade

Exotic Island Smoothie Lemon/Limone

(For pricing or additional product information, please Contact Us. Thank you.)

Welcome to Coffee Fest Chicago 2013, where passionate coffee and tea professionals will learn skills, receive education and experience new products, alongside great networking.

Click here to register: http://www.coffeefest.com/Event/Attendee/Default.aspx

We are in booths 202 and 204 at Chicago Coffee Fest this year. We will be serving our award-winning Flamenco Organic Coffee along with a ton of other great products for you to check out and sample. Also, be sure to stop by and check out our Synesso espresso machine pulling our very own Matador espresso shots!

Here are the basics:

When – June 7th-9th 2013

Where – Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

Onsite Registration Hours:
Friday & Saturday: 7:00am to 4:30pm
Sunday: 7:30am to 3:30pm

Exhibition Hours:
Friday & Saturday: 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Educational Training
Friday & Saturday: 8:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday: 8:00am to 4:00pm

If you have any questions about the trade show, please Contact Us.

Speaking of our new phone system, we are still figuring it out and doing the necessary upgrades to our internet line here to offer the best call quality available. We apologize to any customers that we’ve had a hard time hearing/understanding and those we been disconnected from and had to call back. We assure you that these problems are short-term and will be fixed soon.

Thanks again for the business and have a great holiday weekend with your friends and family!

(For pricing or additional product information, please Contact Us. Thank you.)

Summer Cider Drinks

Sparkling Cider
1 oz. Cider concentrate
7 oz. Sparkling water

Cider Float
1 oz. Cider concentrate
7 oz. Ginger ale
Scoop of vanilla ice cream

Apple Raspberry Cooler
1 oz. Cider concentrate
1 oz. Raspberry syrup
6 oz. Sparkling water

Apple Pie A la Mode Milkshake
1 oz. Cider concentrate
1 oz. Caramel syrup
4 oz. milk
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
1 piece of graham cracker
Blend until smooth

Apple Cooler (Alcoholic)
1 oz. Cider concentrate
1 shot Spiced rum
6 oz. Cold water
Splash of Grenadine
Serve over ice with lime garnish

Apple Crisp (Alcoholic)
1 oz. Cider concentrate
1/2 oz. Kahlua
1/2 oz. Baileys
1/2 oz. Frangelico
1 oz. Stoli vanilla vodka
Shake in 16oz pint glass , top with soda water

The Schnider (Alcoholic)
1 oz. Cider concentrate
2 oz. Peach Schnapps
5 oz. Cold water
Serve over ice

Cooking with Cider

Cider Frosting (perfect topping for cinnamon buns)
1 oz. Cider Concentrate
12 oz. tub of cream cheese frosting
Mix thoroughly

Apple Pie A la Mode…without the pie
1 oz. Cider Concentrate
1 oz. caramel or butterscotch sauce
1 big scoop of vanilla ice cream
Drizzle cider and sauce over the top of the ice cream in a crisscross pattern

Cider Glaze
Apply cider concentrate to roast pork or roast poultry 10 minutes and 5 minutes prior to the end of the baking cycle.

Cider Gravy
2 oz. Cider concentrate
12 oz. Chicken broth
Create a roux from roast drippings and flour and dilute with cider/broth mixture

Get Fermenting

Basic Hard Cider
·         In a fermentation vessel, (sanitized five gallon pail with an airlock) mix one jug of Cider Concentrate with three and half gallons of water.
·         Sprinkle one packet of white wine, or champagne yeast over the cider at room temperature and seal the vessel.
·         Leave Cider for a week between 60 and 70 degrees F.
·         Dissolve half a cup of corn sugar with half a cup of water and add to cider mixture
·         Siphon hard cider into bottles, seal, and leave for three months in dark dry area.

(For pricing or additional product information, please Contact Us. Thank you.)

UP Cafe Grand Opening Party and Flamenco Organic Coffee Release

Presented by Upper Midwest Gourmet

We will have live music (Zorongo Flamenco Music & Dance and our very own Eric and Pat’s band, Woodshop), free food, drinks, and gelato (café drinks from UP Café and hopefully, HammerHeart beer, if they have it brewed in time), and a bunch of our vendors (Crazy Boy Farm, Autumnwood Farm, Fabbri, Cherrico Pottery, Extraction Coffee Co., Umpqua Oats, and more) with booths selling and giving stuff away to celebrate the Grand Opening of UP Café. The event will also be a release party for one of Flamenco Organic Coffee Company’s newest offerings.

When – Friday, May 3rd, 2013

Time – 10am-4pm

Where – UP Cafe – 1901 Traffic St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Open to the public, we hope you can make it!

Please RSVP on our Facebook Event Page or by emailing Party@UPcafe.us.

Here are four new product lines that we are very happy to now stock and offer:

Monin Fruit Smoothies

Jet Fruit Smoothies

DaVinci Gourmet Syrups

Torani Syrups

(For pricing or additional product information, please Contact Us. Thank you.)

]]> http://uppermidwestgourmet.com/archives/6745/feed/ 0 http://uppermidwestgourmet.com/archives/6672/ http://uppermidwestgourmet.com/archives/6672/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:35:07 +0000 Michael Applen http://uppermidwestgourmet.com/?p=6672 Here comes warmer temperatures and hopefully a lot of snow melting!

We are really proud of our new training cafe, UP, along with many other improvements we have made to Upper Midwest Gourmet and Flamenco Organic Coffee Company in the past few months!

Please check out our newest Brewsletter – Volume 49 – Spring 2013

Also, please go to the Brewsletters Page on our website to download and read previous Brewsletters. They contain lots of useful information!

Enjoy and thanks again from all of us at UMG!