by triptogenetica » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:09 pm
mmmm, green tea...
I think you'd be better off drinking this, not just "might as well". By a long way.
I should own up, I do like my green tea. In the home, looseleaf tea is a superior product to most other hot drinks you get from cupboard-and-kettle.
Joking aside - this is totally about getting their product into the home. Which is pretty new for them, so I'd expect the hype to outpace the product. I'd agree it shows where their interests lie, though.
'Not in the cup' - couldn't put it better myself.
(as an aside, I did have some starbucks-in-the-home a while ago. A bag of their beans, whole beans (!), roasted to v v shiny. A supermarket was selling them off.
The espresso from that actually made excellent tiramisu. But I doubt most of their customers would have had a grinder at home, or the patience, or the urge to make a dessert, not a beverage - the supermarket knew it, and just wanted to shift the stuff).
Bezzera BZ35 (ex Gaggia Carezza)
Grinders - Iberital MC2, Bezzera BB105, Hario Skerton
Aeropress, Cona C, Hario MCA-5 and TCA-5 vacpots
Beans - Behmor homeroast