If you are a coffee lover obsessed with brewing the perfect cup at home or at the office, you might want to look into getting a Capresso coffeemaker. These machines are made by a privately owned American company with the same name which specializes in producing upmarket coffee-making machines, coffee grinders, espresso machines and other kitchen equipment. “Capresso” comes from the combination of the words “cappuccino” and “espresso,” which was devised by Doris Kramm, the founder’s wife.
Capresso coffeemakers are noted for their sleek and elegant construction which leans toward European design sensibilities. That’s because Capresso founder Michael Kramm was a German national who first came to the US in 1976 as an executive for Krups, a German distributor of coffeemakers, before eventually moving
on to set up his own company. Capresso machines have won recognition for their fine engineering. In 2007 the Impressa J5, the product of a joint venture between Capresso and Switzerland’s Jura AG, was named the best automatic coffee center by Stiftung Warentest, an independent, Germany-based consumer products tester. Because of its clean lines, luxurious platinum finish and chrome accents, the Impressa J5 also won an iF Red Dot design award in the same year.
Other innovative Capresso products include the CoffeeTEAM Therm line of specialty drip coffeemakers, Jura-Capresso Automatic Coffee Centers, and the Capresso MT500 drip coffeemaker. These machines are flexible enough to brew any type of coffee-based drink, be it a cappuccino, espresso, ristretto or café latté, at one touch of a button.
The Capresso taste factor
Besides being a well-designed machine, what else is so special about a Capresso? People don’t usually buy coffeemakers because of their aesthetics. Does the Capresso make waves in the taste department too?
The secret behind each cup of Capresso coffee lies in the machine’s “bean-to-cup” proposition: grinding and processing coffee beans right before brewing retains more of their flavor and aroma than any other preparation method.
Another Capresso innovation is high-pressure brewing. This method extracts more of the coffee bean’s essence, resulting in a more aromatic and better-tasting brew.
The Capresso line of coffee beans
To maximize one’s Capresso brewing experience, Capresso came up with its own line of coffee beans. Capresso Grand Aroma Coffee Beans are blended from premium beans sourced from a region in the southernmost part of the Swiss Alps, about a mile away from the Italian border. Grand Aroma is an amalgam of the Italian tradition of carefully selecting the best coffee beans and the Swiss way of precision roasting. Grand Aroma comes in three roasts: regular, decaf and espresso.
Capresso concerns itself with enabling consumers to enjoy a sublime, steaming cup of perfection right in their own kitchens. So if you can’t do without a nice cuppa, consider getting a Capresso coffeemaker. No self-respecting coffee connoisseur should do without one.
