Tag Archive 'coffee_pods'
Posted by TheShot on 22 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee, Roasting
La Colombe Torrefaction, a Philadelphia-based roaster that’s been something of an East Coast analog to Blue Bottle Coffee Company, has regularly received national recognition for the quality of their roasted coffee. But on the West Coast, La Colombe may as well be based out of Belgium; they’re largely unknown around these parts. In an attempt [...]
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Tags: blue_bottle, coffee_pods, coffee_roasters, ecco_caffe, equator_estate, la_colombe, restaurant_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine
Today’s Wall Street Journal features an article on a new home espresso machine/system being introduced by Illycaffè next month: Re-Engineering Espresso – WSJ.com. Illy’s new coffee-pod-based machine/system is called Hyper Espresso — ‘hyper’ being a sort of European equivalent of ‘super’ (as in hypermarket shopping). The system consists of a custom machine (produced by Illy [...]
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Tags: coffee_beans, coffee_pods, home_espresso, illy, single_serving_espresso
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Posted by TheShot on 30 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Home Brew
Today Earthtimes.org published an article on the evolving consumer coffee market in Vienna, Austria: Vienna’s coffee makers take on the convenience cup : Health. While Vienna is steeped in a long tradition of contemplative coffee-drinking in elegant cafés, modern trends such as espresso drinks, big international coffee chains, “to go” coffee, and home espresso machines [...]
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Tags: austria_cafes, cafe_customers, coffee_pods, home_espresso, to-go-coffee, vienna_cafes, vienna_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Restaurant Coffee
According to an article in today’s USA Today, hotels are still slowly catching up on the rest of society when it comes to serving better quality coffee: Upscale coffee selections brewing at more hotels – USATODAY.com. As the article opens, “Good coffee is the next big thing at hotels.” Business travelers, accustomed to better coffee [...]
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Tags: coffee_education, coffee_pods, hotel_coffee, illy, Robusta
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Posted by TheShot on 09 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Home Brew
Contrast with the many home espresso machine design failures, Nestlé’s Nespresso pods and machines have been something of a consumer success story. The Nespresso machines do exhibit good design and an impressive amount of convenience. For a number of home espresso lovers, however, these advantages ultimately pale in comparison to their required use of stale, [...]
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Tags: coffee_freshness, coffee_pods, espresso_machines, home_espresso, lisbon_coffee, nespresso
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Posted by TheShot on 26 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
It’s no secret that I generally disdain superautomated espresso machines (myself and Howard Schultz apparently included) and the convenience-step-forward/quality-step-backwards home pod machines. So you may get the (false) impression that, when it comes to coffee, I am an anti-technology Luddite. While I have never placed PID temperature controllers on the group of my home machine [...]
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Tags: coffee_pods, coffee_roasters, coffee_tech, espresso_machines, home_espresso, sammy_piccolo, scaa, superautomatic_espresso_machines
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Posted by TheShot on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine
Consumer Reports published a home buyer’s guide to espresso makers this month: ConsumerReports.org – Buyer’s guide to espresso makers 3/07. As with a lot of things in Consumer Reports, they often lack sufficient knowledge or background to offer educated opinions beyond winging it with what’s on the surface. (Well, beyond that and Consumers Union‘s usual [...]
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Tags: coffee_freshness, coffee_pods, espresso_machines, grinders, home_espresso, moka_pot, nespresso, single_serving_coffee, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 19 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Home Brew, Machine
Coffee pods are a fad that is on life support at the value end (i.e., for machines under $100). However, home sales of high-end coffee pod makers are up significantly: MediaPost Publications – Upscale Coffee Makers Drive Segment But Overall It’s Flat – 03/19/2007. As I discovered in Lisbon’s fashionable Chiado district last year, an [...]
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Tags: coffee_pods, espresso_machines, home_espresso, krups, lisbon_coffee, nespresso, single_serving_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 07 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Consumer Trends, Home Brew
Last year while looking to upgrade my home stereo from a Michael J. Fox-era boom box, I made the mistake of stopping into a Bose store. There I rudely discovered that Bose does not sell home stereos. No, they sell lifestyles. Problem was that I was already quite happy with my pre-owned lifestyle; I just [...]
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Tags: cafe_customers, coffee_freshness, coffee_health, coffee_marketing, coffee_pods, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 17 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Restaurant Coffee
ChannelNewsAsia published an article today on Coca-Cola’s venture into coffee distribution in Singapore: Channelnewsasia.com – Coca-Cola ventures into premium specialty coffee. Coca-Cola has been investing in coffee service for quite some time. In previous posts here, we’ve covered their development of Far Coast pod systems — among other patents. As one of Wall Street’s darling [...]
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Tags: coca-cola, coffee_pods, coffee_service, far_coast, kenneth_davids
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