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[AlexMogil]

I kinda hope Keurig makes a beer machine to further piss people off.

Single serving beer pods

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

brb, filling the keurig with WanderingWind's tears.

 

[CreepingFear]

I kinda hope Keurig makes a beer machine to further piss people off.

Single serving beer pods

Beer and Coffee snobs, they make PC Master Race people who are serious and not in on the joke seem cute by comparison.

 

[WanderingWind]

I kinda hope Keurig makes a beer machine to further piss people off.

Single serving beer pods

I think you're officially my nemesis.

brb, filling the keurig with WanderingWind's tears.

Please, that's hate sweat.

 

[DSFan1970]

I kinda hope Keurig makes a beer machine to further piss people off.

Single serving beer pods

They'll be making a Coke Keurig Cold machine later this year for soda pods, so beer wouldn't be a stretch.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Rise in the prices of older Keurig machines confirmed?

 

[Freaky Fred]

I mean your jump stating that it still requires grinding beans when we never have. Hey, if you like using your french press, feel free. I'm sure if we had one, we'd like it too. But that doesn't mean that the Keurig machines are worse or better, just that they are more convenient at the cost of something more personal or better tasting, if that's true. I've never owned one. Used one, but never owned one.

That's exactly what I originally said. I said I like the convenience of the K-cups but hate throwing out all that plastic. And then I said using a reusable k-cup takes away the only benefit of using a Kuerig, which is the convenience, so I may as well use my press. I like having both. When I just want one cup I go for the keurig, when I want more than one I go for the press.

 

[JzeroT1437]

I use a Nespresso machine and they do a similar thing, changing the pod shape every now and again to make sure competitors can't make pods for their system.

It's idiotic.

 

[AlexMogil]

I got my Miller Lite Beer Pod. I'm telling you it is delicious!

It is seriously the best beer out there.

 

[DSFan1970]

Rise in the prices of older Keurig machines confirmed?

If you have had one you would know they frequently break. Call them and they'll send you a new one. I am on number 6. They are like the xbox360 of the coffee pod world.

 

[mcteapot]

Forget all that and get the best coffee maker ever!

 

[xsarien]

Forget all that and get the best coffee maker ever!

Tempting, but if I get only one more coffee maker it's going to be a freakin' siphon.

 

[Einbroch]

That's exactly what I originally said. I said I like the convenience of the K-cups but hate throwing out all that plastic. And then I said using a reusable k-cup takes away the only benefit of using a Kuerig, which is the convenience, so I may as well use my press. I like having both. When I just want one cup I go for the keurig, when I want more than one I go for the press.

I misunderstood, then. Apologies.

Thanks to this thread I'm sipping on a delicious chocolate peppermint coffee from a local shop. It hit the spot. Yummy.

 

[WanderingWind]

I got my Miller Lite Beer Pod. I'm telling you it is delicious!

It is seriously the best beer out there.

If you aren't fermenting your own hops in an oaken barrel you carved from a tree you felled by hand, then what the fuck is the point.

 

[Acerac]

This thread has done nothing but show me how big of a jackass WanderingWind is. Good lord. You can make your point in a way that won't make you look like such a complete twat.

I get the sarcasm and whatnot, but seriously...

 

[AlexMogil]

If you aren't fermenting your own hops in an oaken barrel you carved from a tree you felled by hand, then what the fuck is the point.

NO TIME MAN I NEED MY BEER NOW

This thread has done nothing but show me how big of a jackass WanderingWind is. Good lord. You can make your point in a way that won't make you look like such a complete twat.

It's the refined coffee I'm sure.

 

[DSFan1970]

Forget all that and get the best coffee maker ever!

Fair play to the coffee purists here, most people don't like the mess or have the time or pour coffee into clear mugs or drink it black.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

If you aren't fermenting your own hops in an oaken barrel you carved from a tree you felled by hand, then what the fuck is the point.

NO TIME MAN I NEED MY BEER NOW



It's the refined coffee I'm sure.

lol.

 

[WanderingWind]

This thread has done nothing but show me how big of a jackass WanderingWind is. Good lord. You can make your point in a way that won't make you look like such a complete twat.

I get the sarcasm and whatnot, but seriously...

Jesus, dude. It's not even sarcasm. Do you honestly, truly believe anybody gives a fuck how you brew your coffee? Nobody cares. It couldn't have been more in jest if had posted links to Yakity Sax before every post.

Lighten up, Francis.

 

[lenovox1]

If you're making coffee with a Keurig or a Nespresso or whatever other instant "pod" machines are out there, then you deserve this absurdity.

Beans + grinder + [cup drip/French Press/Aeropress/Siphon/Mocha Pot/Whatever Else] is the only way to go.

Nespresso makes a really good espresso for a pretty inexpensive price. That's found its place.

Keurig is for people that can't be bothered with the minute and a half it takes to make instant coffee for whatever reason.

 

[KHarvey16]

Nespresso makes a really good espresso for a pretty inexpensive price. That's found its place.

Keurig is for people that can't be bothered with the minute and a half it takes to make instant coffee for whatever reason.

Keurig isn't instant coffee.

 

[inm8num2]

This is kind of hilarious and bizarre.

 

[AlexMogil]

I'm willing to go to war for this.

 

[outunderthestars]

This thread has done nothing but show me how big of a jackass WanderingWind is. Good lord. You can make your point in a way that won't make you look like such a complete twat.

I get the sarcasm and whatnot, but seriously...

Weird. I read the entire thread and this post was way more "twatty" than anything WanderingWind posted. Everyone just needs to relax. People find different reasons to enjoy coffee. can't we all just agree that adding DRM to coffee is a really terrible idea?

 

[rokkerkory]

Attack the grinder for massive damage!

 

[Freaky Fred]

I misunderstood, then. Apologies.

Thanks to this thread I'm sipping on a delicious chocolate peppermint coffee from a local shop. It hit the spot. Yummy.

No worries. Tensions are high in this coffee thread. Must be all the caffeine.

 

[WanderingWind]

I'm willing to go to war for this.

Hm. One one hand, your coffee is faster, allowing you to get to the battlefield early. On the other hand, my faction will be way, way more caffeinated. We will feel no pain. We will never sleep.

Bring it on. I got this whole pot of whup ass brewing.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

I'm willing to go to war for this.

 

[SwiftDeath]

If you have had one you would know they frequently break. Call them and they'll send you a new one. I am on number 6. They are like the xbox360 of the coffee pod world.

lol that's pretty bad then. I can't stand unreliable products

 

[reddmyst]

DRM coffee...wow, just wow.

But anyways, I like Keurig because it's convenient. To each their own.

 

[SimleuqiR]

Google will save us with their coffee machine.

Best response to any technical crisis. Maybe not the most logical or realistic, but definitely the best.

 

[AlexMogil]

I was there for the Coffee Wars, son. The Instants vs. the Pressers.

Many beans were spilled that day. All I remember is the sounds of percolation and at 5 PM I was tired. So fucking tired.

Edit: I think we lost a warrior.

 

[SwiftDeath]

Wow went back and read Wandering's posts

Totally takes this thread up a level lol

 

[LanceVance]

A new underground black coffee market will emerge, full of violence, murder and coffee

 

[Confidence Man]

How would they lock out generic cups?

 

[Petrie]

Wow went back and read Wandering's posts

Totally takes this thread up a level lol

The hatred for those who like a bit of convenience in their morning is astounding.

 

[DSFan1970]

lol that's pretty bad then. I can't stand unreliable products

Yep, and you keep the old brewer too. They don't ask you to send it back, just the pod holder in the brewer. This is why they are DRMing the pods. It's their 'it prints money' thing.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

Seriously, why aren't you guys just using an electric kettle and instant coffee?

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[AlexMogil]

Seriously, why aren't you guys just using an electric kettle and instant coffee?

because I have a keurig

 

[maxcriden]

Huh, really? I remember occasionally driving by the Foldgers plant in Jacksonville and it smelled awful. Dunno, maybe they weren't actually brewing coffee in there.

Might just be the quality of the coffee itself, from the little I know GMC is supposedly much higher quality coffee. But yeah, the beans being grinded or brewed or whatever's happening in there smells amazing.

 

[DSFan1970]

How would they lock out generic cups?

Change the shape?

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

this has to be the worst possible outcome of 'combatting' the fake trade: apply DRM to fucking everything.

 

[mjontrix]

I'm guessing they're going to use rfid /nfc or something similar on the pods that are picked up by the machine.

 

[King Mac of Furry Frog]

We'll see how quickly this is circumvented.

 

[AlexMogil]

It feels like we're going to be licensing kitchen appliances on a per use basis at this point.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Surely this is an onion article?

 

[BocoDragon]

I installed a mod chip in my coffee maker, so I'm good.

EDIT: Wait, are we allowed to talk about this on GAF? Sorry mods, I'll edit this out if it's against the rules....

 

[Einbroch]

It feels like we're going to be licensing kitchen appliances on a per use basis at this point.

Slap it on the deep fryer and you have a way to curb obesity.

 

[Valnen]

We'll see how quickly this is circumvented.

You could just buy the older models that don't have the tech.

 

[ixix]

I installed a mod chip in my coffee maker, so I'm good.

EDIT: Wait, are we allowed to talk about this on GAF? Sorry mods, I'll edit this out if it's against the rules....

People still do mod chips? I softmodded mine. There's nothing to it: you just slap a TIFF file onto a Newman's Own special blend pod and hit the brew button then wait five minutes.

You need the 1.0 version of the k-cup, though. They patched the exploit out on the sly sometime around July of last year. You can find unpatched pods on eBay if you know what you're looking for, but you'll have to pay a premium. Still cheaper than a hardware mod.