In tandem with the Clover test rollout in Seattle yesterday, Starbucks [SBUX] also announced that there would be specially selected coffee beans released to be used in conjunction with the Clover brewers. Matching the “small” boutique-iness of the Clover brewing process, small batch coffee releases will accompany the Clover devices in their rollouts. For this [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
“What’s a Clover machine?” A few decades ago, I was a dead-serious coffee aficionado, and I used to spend a lot of time debating the benefits and disadvantages of various roasting and brewing techniques, and the machinery that was involved. At the time, the brewing equipment was somewhat rudimentary compared to the modern machines available [...]
The Setup Yesterday, as I was sitting at the Ashbrook Starbucks store enjoying my last coffee refill of the day, I overheard a couple of young persons talking about a blog called Javamancy that had been reporting and discussing the goings-on at Starbucks back in July but seemed to have mysteriously stopped. While they saw [...]
