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I would buy this. Sell me one please. There's a little history of trying to get a new coffee method named: Clover comes to mind, a vertical extraction, high pr
by vessenes 2y ago
I would buy this. Sell me one please.
There's a little history of trying to get a new coffee method named: Clover comes to mind, a vertical extraction, high pressure, fine-filter plunge method that's like a powered Aeropress. The founder made it to be a kind of new price point offering between drip and espresso drinks. Starbucks ultimately bought Clover, and seems mostly to have shut it down, which is too bad - it was a nice product for third wave coffee shops to offer, and it's only rolled out now at high end Starbucks.
It is worth the wait, although maybe not the cost - it seems to exist to sell $10 "Blue Mountain" coffee at Starbucks now.
Anyway, I would guess this would sell more as an enthusiast home product than something that can fit in to existing coffee shops; the Clover story I think is that something new can be appealing, but it's probably not worth the counter space at indies; unless it can replace the espresso machine completely, e.g. as a mode in your existing espresso machine, it's not going to go into what is usually very crowded production space.
- sithadmin 2y ago>Starbucks ultimately bought Clover, and seems mostly to have shut it down They more or less killed the original model, but they're pushing to deploy the new 'Vertica' model so that drip coffee is brewed on-demand rather than by batch. Ostensibly to reduce waste. The output from Vertica machines is definitely subpar compared to the original, however.
- vessenes 2y agoInteresting! I note that the single illustration on the Vertica page shows a narrower machine. It makes sense they decided the thing to do is replace the drip machine with a higher-value product machine, and leave espresso alone.