Coffee Brewer Archives

Coffee Tech: Remaking the Vac Pot

by deCadmus | Mar 25, 2008 | Coffee

Oh… shiny! Don’t let the modern lines fool you… it’s not a new brew technology but a new take on the classic vac pot, from designer Lina Fischer. I have wine bottle-stoppers that look the like brewing end of this thing… wonder if...

Starbucks’ Shiny New Shamrock

by deCadmus | Mar 20, 2008 | Coffee

Listen… Hear that? . . . . . . That’s the sound of thousands of coffee retailers gasping for air, reeling from a sucker-punch. These are folks who’d aspired to get themselves a Clover… the commercial, cup-at-a-time coffee brewer that’s...

The Bodum Bistro… Not So Hot.

by deCadmus | Mar 7, 2008 | Coffee

Some months ago I expressed my deep covet of the very attractive Bodum Bistro manual drip brewer. What, after all, is not to like? It takes a page from the classic Chemex pour-over coffee brewer, offers a nod to the Eva Cafe Solo, and ups the ante by leveraging the...

Keurig vs. Tassimo: A Single-Cup Showdown Update

by deCadmus | Oct 31, 2007 | Coffee

Autumn has blown into our neck of the woods with a mighty draft of whirling leaves, the aroma of wood smoke wafting from neighbors’ hearths, and — hey, this is new — a raft of folks banging on an increasingly-dated review of single-serve coffee...

Rocketing to the Top of My Wish List

by deCadmus | Jul 29, 2007 | Coffee

Following in the footsteps of its eSantos brewer line, Bodum has, I suspect, a new instant classic on their hands. Their new manual drip Bistro model takes a page from the classic Chemex pour-over coffee brewer, and offers a nod to the Eva Cafe Solo. And then Bodum...

Best of 2005: Coffee Brewers

by deCadmus | Dec 1, 2005 | Coffee

So maybe that whole Cyber Monday thing was just a gimmick to get you online, but the bald facts remain: the holidays are upon us, the shopping season is short this year, and you’ve got coffee hounds on your list that have high hopes (and high expectations) for...