2 posts tagged “coffee”
Had my first $10 cup of coffee this week from this machine. So good...it makes regular coffee taste like swill. How many times can I spend $10 on coffee though?
Started talking to they guy at Blue Bottle Coffee about the strange and wonderful coffee aparatii they have set up at their new shop on Mint Street. They have a line of round glassware with coffee siphoning through it, a technique apparently created in Kyoto about 30 years ago. Then next to those, a large clear case with two large globes of water that filter through some pipes to a set of 4 columns of packed coffee. I was told that it takes 8 hours for the water to fully drain through the system and create a pot of coffee. I'm not sure where this technique comes from, but I applaud the complexity!
Sarah snapped a picture of me sampling some of the Kyoto-siphon coffee in a small beaker:
You can see the crazy 8 hour globe system in the background. After drinking the tiny coffee my regular-formally-fantasic blue bottle dripped tasted like swill. From now on my coffee will take a minimum of 16 hours to make and I will only drink it from scientific glassware.
