MarketBasket:A $15,000 coffee machine
ED HILLE / Staff Photographer
Barista Angie Chung works the
Steampunk machine at La Colombe.
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Posted: Thursday, April 18, 2013,
3:05 AM
La Colombe co-owner Todd Carmichael
used to mock competitors for obsessing over "single-origin" coffees
(versus blends) and slow, expensive, by-the-cup pour-over brews.
These days, single-origin beans from
Kenya to Haiti are a growing percentage of La Colombe sales. And this week, it
gets into the brew-to-order game in a big way.
La Colombe's Dilworth Plaza store is
one of a handful of cafes in the U.S. debuting the Steampunk, a $15,000
full-immersion machine that allows baristas to simulate drip, French press, or
vacuum pot methods.
And the coffee emerges from this
sleek battery of pistons and glass tubes in less than two minutes. First
impressions? My drip-style cup of Mexican beans was outstanding, with a crisp,
clean texture, but a full flavor vivid with dried fruit and cocoa.
Single-origin Steampunk coffee, $3 a
cup, La Colombe, 1414 S. Penn Square, 215-977-7770.
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