Home delivery coffee clubs – gourmet coffee delivered to you

For something new, or as a gift idea for the coffee lover on your list, it pays to know more about coffee club.

Coffee clubs have been a tradition for quite a few years and there are some advantages. In case you're not familiar with home coffee clubs, I'll tell you bit more about how they work.

First, you will sign up (or sign up your friend or family member as a gift). Most include some sort of bonus when you sign up. Look for a coffee club that has options you'll enjoy. You will choose the coffees you want, tell them how often to deliver, and get it on auto pay for your credit card. Then wait for the coffees to be delivered to your door.

If you're not sure whether you'll use all of the coffee each month, you should look for a coffee club that allows you to change how often deliveries are made. Not everyone drinks the same amount of coffee, and a monthly delivery might be too frequent for you.

You should also be able to change the coffees you want. Your tastes may change, or you may decide that you're tired of the particular coffees you're to receive and want to try something different next month.

Choosing the right coffee club

The right coffee club is one that has the coffees you want and fits your budget. Look for a coffee club that offers a broad selection of quality gourmet coffees. Then look at the terms, to make sure that you understand what you're signing up for, and how you can stop the club if you want to do so.

I remember signing up for the old record clubs...and wondering how could I ever get out of that. OK, I'm dating myself. That was before itunes in case anyone doesn't know what a record club was.

Here are a couple of home coffee clubs that you may want to consider.

The Green Mountain Coffee Café EXPRESS Coffee Club

Green Mountain Coffee offers their Café EXPRESS Coffee Club. With Green Mountain, you can be assured of a great selection of coffees (including organic and fair trade) as whole beans, ground coffee or in K-Cups for the Keurig brewers.

Benefits listed for the Café EXPRESS Coffee Club include the following.

• Special Member Discounts: $2 off every box of K-Cups & 5% off all other items
• Free Gifts: Choose from 2 boxes of K-Cups, 3 bags of coffee, or other great gifts--just for signing up
• You can look forward to more FREE gifts and coffee samples throughout the year
• Flexible, automatic coffee delivery: choose every 1 to 12 weeks, depending on your needs, and change your order as often as you like
• Special member promotions
• FREE Earth-Friendly filters

You can visit the Green Mountain website for more information about Café EXPRESS.

Peet’s Coffee & Tea Peetniks Coffee Club

Peet's is where gourmet coffee brewing started in the USA. More people know about Starbucks than Peet’s, but the Starbucks owes much of its start to Alfred Peet, the immigrant from Amsterdam who decided that coffee in America had a lot of room for improvement and did something about it.  Peet's has an excellent reputation for roasting quality coffees, and was one of the first in Amercian to offer darker roasted coffee.

Here is information about the Peetniks club, which is what they call the Peet's coffee club.

• Your coffee is roasted and shipped on the day of your choosing - straight from Peet's artisan roastery. Your coffe is immediately packed and the bag flushed with nitrogen to lock in freshness
• A direct phone number of their own to call: Peetniks can call 1-888-PEETNIKS to schedule and change their orders
• Peetniks automatically get 50% off shipping on every recurring delivery shipment
• Manage your order online: Peetniks have online access to make any necessary changes to their order online.

Here is more about Peet’s Peetniks Coffee Club...

Community Coffee Coffee Club

Oneof the few coffee retailers that can challenge Peet's for the origin of gourmet coffee in America is Community Coffee. In fact, now that Peets has sold to a large corporation, Community Coffee is the largest family-owned retail coffee brand in the U.S. Founder "Cap" Saurage started in 1919 in a small country store in Baton Rouge.

Today, unless you live in or visit Louisiana, the best way to enjoy this distinctively rich coffee is through online purchases. Community Coffee Company starts with only quality, 100% Arabica beans selected by the Saurage family. Then they apply their generations of roasting experience, to acheive a full-bodied yet smooth flavor to showcase the extraordinary culinary traditions of Louisiana. Community® coffee is served in the best New Orleans restaurants and is shared in homes across the South.

When you become a member of the Community Coffee Coffee Club, here is what you can expect.

• Fresh coffee delivered right to your door, at your own shipment frequency.
• Periodic discounts, gifts and privileges offered only to Coffee Club customers.
• No membership fees and you may cancel at any time with no additional charge.
• Free gift with your first order -  past gifts have included your choice of a Premium Tumbler, Community Coffee-Fresh Canister or two packages of their Private Reserve® specialty coffees. Check for the current gift offerings.

For more about the Community Coffee's Coffee Club and to receive a free gift upon joining...

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