Clover Coffee Machine

It has been called: “majestic,” “ingenious,” and “sleek.” Those are only a few of the words that have said, describing this commercial coffee machine - the Clover, an $11,000 device that brews regular coffee one cup at a time.

The machine works using an extremely fine filter on top of a piston that sinks into the machine. Over time, the piston will rise, creating a vacuum that forces water through the grounds. Finally, the coffee flows into a single cup.
Now for some more facts:

• you have the ability to determine the brew time and temperature (which changed by just a couple degrees or seconds, can make a completely different cup of coffee)
• an average cup goes for about $22, and can make it’s way up to $100 (in one coffee shop in London)
• it’s made of stainless steel and copper
• costs $11,000
• usually takes several hours to assemble by hand
• 80 of these machines will be installed in Starbucks stores, by the end of 2008
  

CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz says: “In my 25 years at Starbucks, the Clover machine unquestionably delivers the best brewed coffee I have ever tasted”. That pretty much says it all…

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