My wife and I recently found a Starbucks gift card lying around, potentially from 5-10 years ago, and we were surprised to find $5 on it. I debated what to get (how could I maximize their toil for $5?) but ended up just realizing that I should use it to spend money on coffee on my drive to move from Ann Arbor to Chicago.
I was also very excited to see the Clover machine in real life. It is possible that I saw it before, but this was the first time I saw the machine in real life and realized what it was. I learned about it from James Hoffmann's recent video on why everyone uses the V60 (in short, Starbucks bought Clover, a company that made a high-tech single cup brewer, which was rapidly gaining popularity. The industry revolted and needed a cheap replacement. The V60 fit the bill).
The machine brews very fast, which was nice to verify personally. The cup of coffee was also good, in terms of the mechanical extraction of the coffee from the bean.
I ordered the Sunsera Blend - Starbucks, at least the one I stopped at in Battle Creek, is not on the single-origin wave yet. It was $3.13. The notes advertised were"bright citrus & toasted almond." I definitely got a lot of almond, sort of a bouncy flavor, like an almond. "Blonde Roast" is a very flexible term, I think. I would call this a light-medium roast at best.
If I had to buy Starbucks, I would buy this again. I liked it. It exceeded and fell under my expectations simulteneously. I was hoping for a stellar cup of coffee - this was not that. It however, was not a bad cup of coffee.
No comments:
Post a Comment