For Women Only · 6.14.09 by Colin Newell, COFFEECREW.COM

In over 15 years of serious coffee tasting, I have always followed my own motto: Push the specialty coffee experience to the very edge of the experiential frontier – and then push it a little further. And in one and a half decades of boutique coffee browsing I have sipped coffee from the most exotic climes. I once held in my hands a 10 pound bag of Panama La Hacienda Esmerelda coffee… worth over $1,600. And yea, I got me some! And despite all these varied experiences, nothing could have prepared me recently for my greatest caffeinated challenge to date… Girlie Coffee!

What I was fundamentally unprepared for were the consequences of brewing up several pots and presses of coffee actually intended for the exclusive consumption of the fairer sex… that is, the ladies.

In my lab at the University of Victoria, I work with a wide range of folks of both sexes and all ages. And as word went around that there was some newfangled brews to peruse, the buzz for this joe became palpable.

Cups of the Deliciously Girlie coffee were passed around to the crew and much to our surprise, the coffee was… mild and quite Kona like… with light body and very focused lemony notes. Ah. So far so good. Within about 15 minutes however, the guys in our coffee circle became quite blethering… verbose… chatty. Fact was, this lightly roasted coffee packs an immense caffeine wallop – somewhat higher than your typical burnt out Starbucks roast – Deliciously Girlie Coffee is at the other end of the roast spectrum and as you might not know: the lighter the roast, the higher the caffeine content.

And one of the reasons why they call this Girlie coffee (and there are lots of reasons on their informative webpage…) is that women are better equipped to deal with the different chemistry of this coffee – like more caffeine, and more complex antioxidants – those delightful little cancer fighters that many natural foods (like coffee) contain.

What of the ladies in the lab and offices around ours that sampled the women only java? They carried on about their day as if this was a normal, but tasty, cup of coffee to enjoy. The guys? Well, we chatted and chatted and ran over into an elongated coffee break… and chatted some more. Then hugged. And went back to work.

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Erica, Brooklyn, NY

“So much fake stuff is marketed towards me as a woman, but Deliciously Girlie Coffee makes a real difference." Tia, Houston, TX

"THX for the short lecture -- you just told me why it’s good for me."

Gina, Stroudsburg, PA

“Your coffee really made me taste the difference of what ‘farm-fresh’ means.”

Clarice, Chicago, IL

“Always wondered why healthy food is packaged so unappealing that I don’t even want to touch it. But your box is the centerpiece on my new kitchen counter. Can’t wait to get my Girlie mug!”

Lesley, Burbank, CA