I am a coffee fiend. I adore coffee. When I was a student at UC Santa Cruz (an exceptional university, I might add), I drank so much coffee that I started having minor sleeping problems*. While this is pretty normal for a university student, I knew I had to start limiting my daily coffee intake. Limiting my coffee intake means that, when I have my daily cup of coffee, I want it to be an exceptionally delicious cup of coffee.

So on my quest to find the best cups of coffee I try to look for new coffee shops to visit. One of the best ways to learn about coffee shops is to surf the web. And that’s how I came across the Pure Coffee Blog.

One reason I adore this blog is because it’s all about coffee, tea, and the respective beverage abode. The writer behind this blog rates various aspects of a coffee shop. You can read more about this rating system on the blog’s About page.

Another reason I love this blog is that the writer is very humble. His tone is calm and honest. Just because one person loves Starbucks coffee doesn’t mean he will conform to that opinion. I love his honesty.

I live near the San Francisco Bay Area, so I checked out the map of places he’s tried coffee and I discovered that he gave a coffee shop called Ritual Coffee Roasters a 6+, which is the highest rating he gives. Now I’m absolutely going to head to that coffee shop as soon as possible.

There are many other excellent things about this blog including pictures of the coffee shops the writer visits, the wide array of travel destinations, and more.

If you want to see what this honest blogger has to say about coffee shops around your area, I highly recommend checking out Pure Coffee Blog. I also recommend checking it out to simply read about a coffee lover’s coffee passion. Now it’s time for me to pour my second cup of coffee for the day.

* There has been tons of research done on the health benefits of coffee. Coffee, in moderation, can be very good for you. Check out these articles about coffee’s healthy benefits: Coffee: The Good News by the Harvard School of Public Health and Good News in the Daily Grind in The Wall Street Journal.