Seattle’s Best BIG Coffee Giveaway!
Congratulations to Mattfam, Kevin, and David, our winners in this giveaway! I have sent a personal email with instructions to each winner with the subject line “Personal email from Christy, you won!”. Thank you for participating and stay tuned for more great giveaways!
Gratefully, Christy
Most of you know that I LOVE my coffee! The heat of summer doesn’t do anything at all to slow me down, either because I just mix up iced coffee then! When the folks at Seattle’s Best contacted me and told me they had special blends to make the most delicious iced coffee, I was a bit skeptical. I couldn’t understand how a certain blend would make better iced coffee than another.
Well Folks, I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!
I tried both of the iced coffee blends using the cold brew method (click here for an easy way to do that) and have been in coffee paradise ever since! I have been keeping a two quart pitcher filled with concentrate in my refrigerator and treating myself throughout the day. Seattle’s Best has me officially spoiled – and you deserve to be, too!
There are two special blends specifically made for the best iced coffee around. I am addicted, in a big way.
We also enjoyed the Seattle’s Best Blend brewed hot to get our morning started! I really love my coffee.
As a special treat for Southern Plate readers, Seattle’s Best is giving away THREE of the coffee sets pictured above!
Each set includes:
Saturday’s Blend is the late summer blend currently being promoted in cafes and online. The sharpness of East African coffee gives it a complex, layered flavor that is delicious hot, while the natural sweetness of Latin American coffee makes it the perfect summertime refreshment over ice.
Beach House Blend is our early summer blend sold exclusively in cafes and online. It has been a summer favorite since 1998 and is delicious brewed hot or served over ice. Made from a blend of Latin American coffees, Beach House Blend has a refreshingly mild citrus flavor, a sweet, delicate aroma and a smooth finish.
Seattle’s Best Blend is our best-selling and award-winning blend at Seattle’s Best Coffee, offering a bright flavor that we have been perfecting since we came onto the scene in 1970.
With these iced coffees, Seattle’s Best is taking the mystique out of coffee house concoctions and bringing it home to you in a much more affordable way. While people are cutting back on other things, you can actually indulge more by cold brewing your favorite coffee concoctions at home.
To enter this giveaway, leave a comment below and tell me how YOU like YOUR coffee! THREE Winners will be chosen at random on Friday!
The following recipes are courtesy of Seattle’s Best! Enjoy!
Iced Cold Brewed Coffee Mocha
Ingredients
* 2 parts cold brewed coffee concentrate
* 1 part chilled half and half
* Approx 1oz of bittersweet chocolate sauce
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker over ice and shake vigorously.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Variation
Serve over ice – pour all ingredients into a chilled glass letting the foam rise to top.
Iced Cold Brewed Coffee Spritzer
Ingredients
* 1 part cold brewed coffee concentrate
* 3 parts Cold sparkling water
* 1 lemon twist
* Simple syrup to taste
Directions
1. Pour contents over ice into a chilled glass
2. Top with a lemon twist garnish
Cold Brewed Coffee Sundae
Ingredients
* 2 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream
* 2oz cold brewed coffee concentrate
* ½ oz Bittersweet chocolate sauce
* 1oz whipped cream
* 1 chocolate covered espresso bean
Directions
1. Place 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream into a chilled ice cream dish
2. Surround the Ice Cream in cold brewed coffee concentrate
3. Drizzle the Ice Cream in Bittersweet chocolate
4. Top with a dollop of whipped cream and a chocolate espresso bean
To enter, leave a comment below telling me how you like your coffee.
THREE lucky folks will win!
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Aug 3 2009. Filed under Misc.
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I’m dying to try your cold brew method! I haven’t had a chance to make it, but we’re moving in a few weeks and I’m hoping to make a big batch and have it in the fridge at the new place. I want to have something yummy for the friends and family helping us move when it’s a bazillion degrees in the shade that afternoon!
As a Washingtonian, I love me some Seattle’s best! I like it better than starbucks. I take mine with cream and sugar, I’m a simple girl.
I drink my coffee in the morning with French Vanilla dairy Coffeemate but I would love to find a delicious cold coffee to make and drink at home.
My husband LOOOOOOVES Seattle’s Best “Breakfast Blend”!
I love mine iced:)
A double-whammy with coffee ice cream and coffee. A wee touch of rum too. This potent shake will help keep the hot summer doldrums away.
Ingredients:
* 1 pint coffee ice cream
* 2 tbs ground coffee
* 1/2 cup light rum
* 4-6 scoops vanilla ice cream
Preparation:
Blend coffee ice cream, coffee and rum in a blender until smooth. Pour into tall glasses, and top with a scoop of vanilla.
Serves 4-6
I love flavored coffee! Hazelnut coffee with cream is my abolute favorite. To be honest though, I haven’t met a coffee I didn’t like!
It’s hard to beat an iced cold mocha on a really hot day! Can’t wait to try the cold brew method! Thanks for the heads up on it! :O)
Blessings!
first of all I blame YOU for getting me hooked on Pyrex teehee, LOVIN it, I rarely drink coffee but hubby and my daughter do, I love love the smell and am thinking the cold coffee might be more my thing
I really want to try your recipes. Thanks so much OHhhh and keep the pyrex pics coming 
Carm
I am really not a coffee drinker. Have never really drank it. But
your recipes make me really want to try coffee for the first time. My big decision is which one will I try first.
Thanks for all the time you put into your letters. You really are
a big help Christy. Keep up the wonderful work and keep those recipes coming.
MMMMMM! Coffee!!! Black please.
I love coffee too. I usually drink it hot,but I am looking forward to drinking the cold brew. Every once in a while I will splurge for an iced coffee at one of the expensive coffee houses. I would love to make it myself. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Iced with a little bit of sweetner!
Thanks.
Oh, I love this giveaway!!! I love coffee hot or cold, but it does have to have cream and Splenda. I can’t wait to try these recipes!
I drink hot coffee with a variety of flavored creamers. I’ve never had iced coffee, but I’d love to give it a try.
I’ve been meaning to try your cold brewed recipe ever since you first posted it. I’m not a huge coffee fan because I’m not crazy about the aftertaste. When I drink it I tend to like a little coffee with my milk – probably because that’s how I first tasted it as a child when I begged for some from my grandmother.
I LUV coffee!!! Can’t wait to try your cold brew method method.
It’s wonderful to try different bands & blends. I like it hot or iced…I guess it’s my favorite beverage in the winter or the summer.
I love my breakfast blend with lite cream & sugar. I ‘ve also maded it iced when the am is on the warm side.
I love my coffee in the mornings only, but I love Starbuck’s Frappuchino’s anytime after that.
I like my coffee shared with friends. The taste and fellowship last long into the night.
I like to make coffee popsicles Great way to enjoy my coffee and beat the heat!!!
I love coffee with a little cream, a little sugar and sitting on the front porch watching the sun come up! Thats the way I remember summer mornings at my grand parents growing up. Sometimes i’d get ocffee, but usually it’d be apple juice in a coffee mug so I could feel grown up!
I love coffee!
We are Canadians living in NC.
When my friends come to visit from Canada they bring me coffee.
I am looking for a good coffee here to replace what I left there.
Margaret
Christy,
I love my coffee in the morning with a flavored creamer. Never tried Seattle’s Best but would love to win this nice gift. Love your website.
Sarah Wilson
I want to try the cold brew- yum! I guess they have tea just for brewing iced tea, so why not coffee!
I love my coffee with cinnamon bun coffee creamer and splenda.
Oh yum! Can’t wait to try your cold brew method – I’ve been making iced coffee more often than usual this summer. I like my hot coffee black, but love a little sweetness in my iced coffee.
I like coffee so many ways, but for my typical “get me up” in the morning it’s just 2 sugars and some cream.
Afternoons I love iced coffee or sometimes a frozen mocha latte.
I love it that you include recipes for the products. Can’t wait to try.
I love my hot coffee with french vanilla creamer. I love my cold-brew coffee (thanks Christy!) mixed with caramel syrup. Delicious!
I like my coffee black, smoothe, but strong and enjoy it most while sitting on our sailboat early on a fall morning, wrapped in a sweater, as the mist rises off the water. Doesn’t get nay better than that!
I like flavored coffee.. no cream or sugar. Hazelnut, or French Carmel Creme are my fav’s!
I love the smell of coffee in the morning, it is a great way to wake up! Looking forward to trying these recipes out!
I’ll take mine iced with carmel please! If only it could be completely fat-free and sugar free, I’d have a much better day every day!
I, too, must have my coffee in the morning with half and half – no sugar….would love to try iced blend – sure sounds yummy!
I luv me some coffee! Cold brew of course at all times of the year!As a mother of a almost 2 year old I practically have a coffee I.V. going 24/7!
Hi, I love coffee also! Living in northern New England, coffee is VERY important! That’s the only way to warm up on a cold morning. I have never had iced coffee, I must give that a try!
I like my coffee hot with splenda and fat free vanilla coffeemate. I’ve yet to try iced coffee but might just give it a go since you make it look so tasty.
I starting loving iced coffee after making it Christy’s way … it is always in my frig, too. That’s after the hot coffee — black — in the mornings, of course. Sign me up for the contest!! Thanks!
I prefer my coffee black and hot but not too strong. Sometimes I make myself a mocha. I love the combination of chocolate and coffee! I’ve never really tried iced coffee, but as much as I love Haggen-Dazs coffee ice cream I’d probably be crazy for iced coffee.
Christy,
I love my coffee while in Seattle visiting my son who is in the Army—it helps those winter–I miss my Mommy blues!
I love my coffee…hot or cold! As I type this I am sipping iced coffee (with milk and Splenda) made using your cold brew method!! Delicious! Love having the concentrate handy in the refrigerator. My hot coffee has to be very hot and black…no sweetener!
Bountiful blessings!
C – one of my little fave coffee shops uses Seattle’s Best…. (smart guy). I hit that if I forget to do it MY way = when I make my morning pot of Joe, I make a Full Pot (I’m the only coffee drinker), I have my hot cups in the morning, and the rest is iced down in the refrigerator for elevenses, lunch & mid-afternoon pick-me-up!
K
I would love to try your new recipes.
Love iced coffee!!!!!!!!
Carole
I love good coffee!
I HOPE I WIN, I HOPE I WIN, I HOPE I WIN!!!!SOUTHERN GIRLS LOVE THEIR COFFEE!!!!
How I love iced coffee my daughter has gotten me started on that kick now and I’m not complaining at all believe me.As you do I keep it in the fridge all the time also it’s really a nice break from sweet tea all the time.Christy your too good to us we don’t deserve you but it sure is fun and tasty being your friend.:)
Roger in Florida
I love my one BIG cup of coffee in the morning. I like it strong, and then light and sweet, by pouring a good dollop of a vanilla, cinnamon creamer.
Hot coffee for an eye opener. Then, I turn to iced coffee. Been drinking iced for many years. When I first heard iced coffee, I thought ick, but now I am a fan forever. Need the iced coffee to cool off from the Texas summer heat. =)
I like hot coffee with caramel and whipped cream. Can’t wait to try iced coffee. Thanks for the recipes.
I love coffee any kinda way!! Iced or hot- doesn’t matter!! In the morning, in the afternoon, with dessert- anytime is coffee time! I have never tried to do-it-myself iced coffee – would like to! Starbucks is a little expensive…..Would love to win some Seattle’s Best