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New advancements coming to your favorite coffee shop

Dec 02, 2010

If you’re like most Americans who enjoy savoring a fresh, hot cup of coffee from your favorite barista, you understand the importance of freshly brewed coffee when it comes to flavor. Do you ever get dissappointed when you don’t get that fresh flavor? Was your coffee really brewed “on demand”? Starbucks has responded to this all-too-familiar issue (common in the afternoon hours) by introducing the pour over brew method to their shops. With the pour over method, a barista can quickly grind enough beans just for a single cup of coffee. With the pour over method, customers don’t have to wait 6 minutes for larger batch to brew – the pour over method takes only 2 minutes.

How does the pour over work? It’s deceptively simple yet creates bold flavor. With just a ceramic cone filled with freshly ground beans, you slowly pour hot water over and it will drip all that fresh goodness into a cup below. The main component to remember is to slowly and continuosly pour the hot water over the ground coffee for a couple of minutes.

Starbucks isn’t the only shop that’s picked up on this cleverly efficient method of brewing coffee. Intelligentsia coffee chain in Venice, California is also phasing out their complicated and very expensive brewing machines for the pour over method.

Is this low-tech apparatus the new trend in coffee shops? We think you’ll be seeing a lot of more the pour over method in months to come.