In the Grinder - Our Daily Coffee Weblog

I’m excited to announce that Café Imports is purchasing a Clover 1s brewer to showcase our coffees at the SCAA show this year. After the show, the Clover will be installed in the cupping lab. If you don’t know what the Clover is, you can see it here.

What does this mean for us? Well, immediately, we’ll be able to show off our best coffees at the show in the closest way possible to the cupping table on a per-cup basis. There is tremendous buzz about how the Clover is changing the way some high-end specialty retailers do business. People can sell $50/lb. boutique coffees for $5 a cup to consumers with no waste. Many retailers are already having great success with this machine and more and more people are taking notice. Cafe Imports is excited to participate in the ongoing conversation surrounding the future of the specialty coffee industry and utilizing a Clover is another way we can stay in touch with the needs/wants of our clients. Plus, roasters and buyers who are in the know will appreciate tasting our coffee on the same high-end equipment they are using in their shops already or are planning on having in the future.

Once it’s here, we’ll be able to experiment with on-demand blending of roasted coffees and taste the results immediately. We’ll be able to brew any of our coffees at a production roast for clients fresh out of the sample roaster. Not to mention that we ourselves will be drinking fresh, kick-ass coffee all day long (this, of course, is the least important benefit).

by Jamin Haddox