Tag Archive 'clover_brewer'
Posted by TheShot on 01 Jul 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Pardon the sensationalist headline. (Like nobody has ever done that before.) But here’s something from yesterday’s L.A. Weekly on Demitasse, one of the more anticipated new coffeeshops in the L.A. area, that questions/provokes some of the conventional coffee wisdom of the month: Demitasse Will Not Have Pourover Coffee + Other Twists on the Third Wave [...]
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Tags: brewers_cup, clever_dripper, clover_brewer, equator_estate, la_cafes, pour_over_coffee, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 31 May 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew, Roasting
It’s a good thing we’re no longer monitoring signs of the impending Apocalypse. But in perhaps yet another sign that quality coffee is at the end of a Golden Age, rumors today of a Stumptown Coffee Roasters buyout: Stumptown Sold Out – The Selling of Stumptown Coffee Roasters – Esquire. Unlike the article’s author (and [...]
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Tags: clover, clover_brewer, pour_over_coffee, Starbucks, stumpgate, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 07 Apr 2011 | Tagged as: Barista, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine
This week the pipes and tubes of the Internetz delivered a couple of noteworthy articles on local coffee scenes. The first is a cover story in Portland’s Willamette Week (“Drip City: Everything old is new again in Portland’s coffee scene”). The other is a next-generation rehash of a “favorite coffeehouses” list from the Toronto Star [...]
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Tags: Barista, clover_brewer, portland_coffee, pour_over_coffee, pressure_profiling, toronto_cafes, toronto_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 01 Jan 2011 | Tagged as: Machine, Starbucks
In what’s starting to look like a Spy-vs-Spy-like dance between a Starbucks acquisition and the unStarbucks set, Starbucks’ Clover Equipment Company’s latest move is the Precision Pour Over: Clover Pour Over « Why Not? Coffee. (Courtesy of Seattle’s Why Not? Coffee.) As we left off in our story, the once-independent Clover Equipment Company made waves [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, clover_pour_over, hario_v60_dripper, melitta_bar, pour_over_coffee, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 24 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Thanks to friend of this blog, Shawn Steiman, for pointing out this somewhat amusing article from today’s New York Times: Loving Coffee Without Being a Drip – NYTimes.com. In something of an ode to the Mr. Coffee automatic filter drip machine, the author — Times food critic, Frank Bruni — laments the many overly precious [...]
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Tags: chemex, clover_brewer, french_press, hario_v60_dripper, la_pavoni, mr_coffee, pour_over_coffee, quality_standards, rancilio
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Posted by TheShot on 06 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Machine, Quality Issues
Lately we’ve been thinking about quality coffee’s current obsession with all-things-technology. While there’s arguably more science than art to making good coffee, the current climate seems to have pushed any art aside. It reminds us of civilization at the turn of the 20th century, when society held a common belief that technology was going to [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, coffee_pods, coffee_tech, cup_of_excellence, le_fooding, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine, Starbucks, superautomatic_espresso_machines, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 22 May 2010 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
Don’t spro me, bro. That ridiculous sentence kept going through our heads when we visited Trabant Coffee & Chai near Pioneer Square. (Their other, mothership location is in the University District.) From afar, Trabant seems like they are trying to do some interesting things. They were voted Best Coffee in Seattle on CitySearch.com in 2005, [...]
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Tags: 49th_parallel, citysearch, clover_brewer, espresso_review, nuova_point, seattle_cafes, seattle_espresso, synesso
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Posted by TheShot on 20 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
Today the New York Times Magazine blog posted a mini bio-piece on James Freeman of Blue Bottle Coffee fame: The Nifty 50 | James Freeman, Coffee Maker – T Magazine Blog – NYTimes.com. The story behind their “Nifty 50″ (did they hire a former 1960′s editor from Tiger Beat for that?) is to highlight “America’s [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, clover_brewer, coffee_roasters, gimme_coffee, hawaii_cafes, james_freeman, melitta_bar, nyc_coffee, siphon_bars, slayer_espresso_machine
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Posted by TheShot on 12 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Machine, Starbucks
Ever since Starbucks announced their outright purchase of the Clover brewer supply, it was a mere matter of time before replacement filter-coffee-brewing setups were anointed by the coffeeshop elite. From the Chicagoist today, at least Intelligentsia seems settled on the Hario ceramic coffee dripper and kettle: More Change Brewing at Intelligentsia – Chicagoist. Ah, yes. [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, hario_v60_dripper, melitta_bar, Starbucks, third_wave
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Posted by TheShot on 14 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Quality Issues
Over the years, we’ve dropped notes about New York City’s coffee culture: from its origins as a desolate wasteland through its more recent redemption. Like the awkward and homely tomboy who first gussies herself up for the debutant ball, in the past year New York City has been running a major publicity campaign to promote [...]
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Tags: clover_brewer, coffee_quality, nyc_cafes, nyc_coffee, quality_standards
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