creeper.

Check it.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/04/coffee.art/index.html

or "exchange" if you want to spell it correctly... :)

Hey, be my baristaexhange friend. :)

where the hell have you been? i need you to teach me about coffee.

Phil- Here' s something you'll dig.
http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

Coin-operated automatic brewer....niiiiiice!

It was our pleasure, what a wonderful surprise! Thanks for the kind words and for ALMOST leaving my "big brown cups" out of it....see you soon.

thanks phil! what can i say, we just love coffee and each other that much

hey yo phil! whazzup? i heard that you rocked the jam and was sorry to have missed it. how are things?

I might be in Philly on Wednesday. I'll give you a buzz and see if you have some time to meet up for lunch and or coffee:)

True enough, Phil.
I am the first to admit that my reaction to all of this is colored by the fact that I was weeks from ordering an "automated brewer" to use Caragay's phrase, and this potentially throws a wrench into my business plan. I'm still pissed that the machine is being removed from the market- and I don't know that for a fact, but I suspect it is true based on SBUX's history and the opinions that have been offered by people (possibly) smarter than me.
I hope you have a nice weekend- I'm enjoying the Kinunu right now, and loving it! I brought it up to the farm in New York for the family to (not) appreciate.
Regards, Dude.
-Tim

NO. i dont work days anymore, phil.

Phil. I'm sure that the CoEq people are great people, as are the majority of the folks in this industry, but damn, there is no other way to say the truth- they sold out to the corporate 800 lb. gorilla for a fast buck. Would I do it? Maybe, but I wouldn't expect the rest of the community to turn the other cheek.
They sold machines to quality obsessed shops who had to stretch to afford the Clover, and then as soon as the machine has the bugs worked out, they make a deal with a company that is a corporate fast food chain. SBUX isn't and hasn't been 'great coffee' in a decade or more. They are what they are for their real estate acumen and their commitment to the economies of scale and the bottom line.
And now, nobody will have a Clover except for the people who really don't need it. But, I guess they already own the company that makes their logo-ed to-go cups. That's what they're really interested in selling- the *$ image. The purchase of CoEq is just furthering that end, and please, you bloated watery tart, prove me wrong!

The opening went great! It was so much fun!

Oh, god, I feel sick.
SBUX bought Coffee Equipment Company, Zander's soul (read the article on Matt Milletto's page for some truly vomit enducing suckup-idity) and probably all the Clover brewers.
It's the curse of the Caragay.

when you comin' round these parts?

wo0oho0o!! it's official.. i'm on barista exchange ;o)

One of the plethora of reasons that I LUV me some PA.