Sysco Foods expands Island Joes Coffee Products

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 17, 2009 -- Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. (sysco.com)

Sysco Foods recently increased the product line from Island Joe's Coffee, located in old town Key West, Florida. After beginning to offer IJS Breakfast Blend, last year, which rated 91 out of 100 by coffeereview.com in the pillow packs sizes to hotels and restaurants i.e. Hyatt, Crowne Plaza and others.

Now, Sysco has picked up Island Joe's 90 Mile Stretch E.S.E. Espresso Pods, which recently rated 91 out of 100 by Kenneth Davids at coffeereview.com. There where 16 coffee roasting companies from Italy, two from Brazil and two from the U.S. in the blind assesment review and the IJS Espresso Pods was awarded the highet rating. Below are some of the other coffee roasting companies, who submitted pods for review and their rating by coffeereview.com


Island Joe's Coffee 90 Mile Stretch ESE Espresso Pods 91 out of 100

IllyCaffe Tostatura Media (Medium Roast) (ESE pod) 89 out of 100
IllyCaffe Tostatura Scura (Dark Roast) (ESE pod) 89 out of 100
Jolly Caff? Espresso (ESE pod) 88 out of 100
The Supreme Bean Espresso (ESE pod) 88 out of 100
Segafredo Zanetti Espresso Casa (ESE pod) 87 out of 100
Lavazza GranCrema (ESE pod) 87 out 100
Lucaff? 100% Arabica, Black Label (ESE pod) 87 out 100
Fazenda Aguas Claras Espresso (ESE pod) 86 out 100

"We are very excited to have Sysco distributing our espresso pods," stated Trey Wells, co-founded and coffee roaster at IJS. "With Sysco handling the distribution, this allows us to keep roasting world class gourmet coffee and espresso which is our number one priority and passion."

Notes for CoffeeReview.com: ESE (Easy Serving Espresso) pods are wafer-like single-serving sized portions of ground espresso coffee compressed and enclosed in filter paper. Any company that has access to the proper machinery can produce them. Although "pod adaptors" are available for many home espresso machines, ESE pods seem to produce best results when used on home machines exclusively designed for them. We tested this set of sample pods on the pod-only FrancisFrancis! X6 Trio home espresso machine, which allows for some control of extraction rate by how firmly the pod-bearing portafilter is tightened into the machine. We evaluated this espresso at a 26-second extraction for a one-ounce serving.

One customer's comment.
Hi Joe,
I got your pods only 2 days after I ordered them! Thanks so much. I agree that they are smoother vs. Illy. They don't seem to have the bitter aftertaste that Illy pods do, and there is more flavor too & better crema. Do you medium, dark, or peak roast them? Great job! Thanks again - Tom