The FeedRoom now serving Intelligentsia

How cool is this? My place of work is now buying Intelligentsia Coffee!!! Previously, The FeedRoom, pioneer in online video communications, had a Flavia machine and guess what was served? That’s right. Flavia coffee in those individual serving sized, foil packets. Flavia is close to the worst coffee on the planet. The packets had a strength indicator to let you know which one was stronger. To me it indicated which one tasted worse. The aroma was lacking. I only drank it on record setting, bone chilling winter days when the walk down Canal St. to La Colombe, the nearest decent coffee house to work – before I found out about City Girl Cafe, was all but impossible.

One day, a Starbucks Interactive brewer machine showed up to replace the Flavia. A vast improvement. The Interactive brewer makes a single cup at a time and does hot chocolate as well. It has a bean hopper (left side for caffeine and right side for decaf beans) and grinds fresh for each cup. You can also tweak the temperature setting to fine tune the brew. The only problem now was that we were using Starbucks beans and the burnt flavor, which has rightly earned them the nickname Charbucks, was dominate in the cup. I couldn’t get past it. I tried to contain my coffee geekdom, but this machine had potential to make a decent brew and I was way to curious to see how some Intelli beans would taste in there. I recommended we try Intelligentsia and after some research, an order was placed.

A huge improvement once again – props to The FeedRoom for being such a cool place to work and to think about the coffee well-being of the employees. Currently I’m still tasting a bit of the charbucks burntness in the cup, but the profile from the Intelli Brazil Agua Preta  is in there.  The decaf hopper still has Charbucks beans, so the charred residuals are lingering in the machine, invading the freshness of the Intelli beans. Eventually though, it will all flush out and the deliciousness of Intelli will shine through. Things are looking up! Who knows, maybe one day a technivorm will magically show up?