Driftaway Coffee is introducing Virtual Coffee Tasting Parties as a new gift offering for the holiday season, aiming to unite coffee lovers who want to learn more about a favorite beverage and enjoy a tasting experience together. The virtual experience is hosted by James McCarthy, 2013 World Coffee Brewer's Champion and Driftaway Coffee Educator, and it can accomodate five screens and 10 participants at a time via Zoom.
Driftaway Coffee is a D2C coffee subscription company that delivers freshly roasted coffee that's perfectly matched to consumers' taste preferences by an algorithm. For its virtual coffee tasting experiences, Driftaway Coffee sends out coffee tasting kits so that people can get a feel for the kind of products they like best.
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