Comments on: Starbucks Espresso//retro'd and ristretto'd.

By: george

george — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:51:27 +0000

@David -

I’d be glad to, why don’t you email me and we will converse from there.

getg86@gmaildotcom

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:39:52 +0000

George,

So i have a continuous love affair with espresso (straight up). i believe i have found, what i would call a good cup here in fair city of Springfield, Ohio. That’s right. Midwest coffee. Can i ship it to you for review?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:23:28 +0000

no doubt they will try and buy Synesso now too… you just made their espresso look 10 times better than anything you would get in their stores. nice post.

By: tylerj.brown

tylerj.brown — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:25:52 +0000

StarBucks just bought Clover. Very interesting.

By: george

george — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:53:06 +0000

@Nick -
I don’t know if I’d go as far to call the beans that, but they are definitely seriously lacking anything required for a decent espresso.

@J
The server seems to be down, but we’ll have it fixed tonight, check back then- there are about 4 pictures that are missing right now.

By: J

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:28:00 +0000

Half the image are stubbornly refusing to load right now.

so I can’t see any of this supposed flecking… I suspect I’m not missing much.

Haven’t been out to Crema yet, but I will escape Main street on a nice day off and try it out. JJ espresso is my preferred for milk drinks… looking forward to it

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:37:22 +0000

Haha, the Truth is Starbucks claims the shots are supposed to be Caramelly sweet, which I definitely notice when I add Caramel sauce. Oh and John, take out the egg-nog from that drink order you wrote, and I literally made that exact drink this weekend, smelled gross, I can’t stand extra hot…

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:48:39 +0000

Well well, what a surprise. An over-roasted turd (Starbucks calls them beans) which shoots like packed cocoa, even under the best conditions. George, you ‘ve done your best and, you should know, that despite the millions of worldwide Starbucks’, the best shot was pulled right here in West Vancouver at a little coffee shop. Let’s hope Starbucks doesn’t buy out Crema, or we’re all screwed.

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:03:48 +0000

Unfair. You should have taste tested it in a low-fat-soy-extra shot-extra hot-sugar-free-vanilla-matcha-grande-no-foam-cinnamon-egg-nog-latte.

Oh and don’t forget to add 3 packs of sugar without tasting it.