That is quite surprising for me. I knew that outside Italy, and USA in particular, the coffee culture were a lot more varied, but I didn’t expect common stores to also embrace it in this was
However it makes sense actually. Heven here in normal stores you can find coffee for espresso machines and moka, however specific varieties and single origin roasts are getting more and more common
Yeah, that’s concerning.
However after being on the Fediverse for a while, I understand that the freedom from corporations comes in a trade-off with privacy, and even if I’m not tech savvy I’m convinced this isn’t going to change. Maybe there should more understanding about this, and we should put online only things we are totally ok with being publicly available and share private stuff only in specific places such as encrypted chats
Not to mention that on the Fediverse you don’t have access to the whole spread network, by design. It is good for many aspects, but absolutely awful for search
Sì sono italiano, di Bologna!
Fun fact, the Japanese lady who brewed the coffee actually knew Bologna from a trip she made a while ago, the world is small I guess
Finally I went to Tokyo and visited the Glitch shop in Ginza, and it was amazing!
I can confirm the coffee is great but service in particular is flawless, from the presentation of the staff and the process to quality of the preparation.
In Japan is not guaranteed to find staff speaking good English, which is ok, I totally understand it’s not easy and one shouldn’t take it for granted, however I very much appreciated that all Glitch staff did speak perfect English, so I had the opportunity to ask some questions and even chat with the lady who prepared my V60
I also found the price not so high compared to what I find in Italy. Here you can get a good pour over in a specialty coffee in a range between 5 and 10 euro, most often 8. In Tokyo I paid 1500 yen, roughly 9 euro, so considering the high quality of the service I’d say their prices are pretty average
Well I imagined their website was enough to get the context of the question. I heard about Jolla from a random Fediverse post so I went straight to just search its name eventually finding their website
I just wanted to know if they sucked 🙃
Tbh I actually happen to be in an underground arena with 5 of them in sequence, so of course they killed me multiple times, but luckily the checkpoint was saved the very moment they died
And the last one was an freaking armoured silver lynel so I used the only ancient arrow I had against him
You may find that all the extra attention to details as water temperature or precise pouring pace may be unnecessary for you, at least at first. I was intimidated too, especially for the equipment, but then I started brewing using a normal kitchen scale and a stove kettle without thermometer, only relying on the boiling point, and I have to say surely I have less control over the final result but still I enjoyed very very good cups of coffee
So I’d suggest you to just give it a shot doing your best but without unnecessarily hassle and improve your technique a bit at time
Actually I did it one time, but every response I got was in English even if the user was a Japanese speaker. So I started worrying that the translation was incorrect, even if it was specified that I wasn’t a Japanese speaker. I wonder if maybe, especially in the Fediverse context, Japanese users might be pretty used to English and Latin alphabet in general so that it may be easier to them if I just write using the language I actually know in order to avoid mistakes
That seems so nice, with even two decaf options I’m too a lover of fruity flavours especially with a good acidity, so I’m glad you’ve found one