Today we're gonna review these,
It's the new glassware from Kruve.
Now you may remember Kruve from their sifter,
their kind of coffee grounds focused set of sieves,
that I think was one of the first things
that I reviewed on this channel.
Well, this time they went to crowdfunding and I backed it,
I think it was either Indiegogo or Kickstarter
and they have produced these, these two tasting glasses
as well as a carafe that I think is pretty great actually.
The carafe, you could put like a V60 on top,
or like a Kalita, a Melitta, a Clever,
probably not narrow press.
But you could obviously just bruin something else
and decant, if you're feeling fancy,
we'll come back to you in a second.
Now, the two glasses, there's two different shapes that are
in many ways the same shape, actually.
So if you turn one of them upside down
the shapes are actually identical, but not.
So, I don't know if this was about, maybe you'd
like molds or I don't really know how you make glass.
I don't know if this was a convenience
or a stylistic decision.
They are dual-walled, which is mostly good.
Now I don't like most dual-walled glassware
'cause it keeps coffee way too hot.
Here you've got kind of a dual-walled section
that you hold and then inside it, this sort of insert
with a single-walled section that you drink from
which is nice.
I definitely like drinking from single-walled much more
than I like drinking from double-walled.
And the shapes are there to sort of enhance certain aspects
of your coffee tasting, right?
That's the idea behind the name EQ.
You can sort of add some meed's or some base, I guess to it,
that's the kind of idea.
There's two things to talk about here as a review.
One, do they work?
And two, do you like them?
Do I like them?
Do they look good?
Then we can start with the first one
'cause it's kind of easier.
Now, the sort of science around tasting
and the influence of glassware is actually pretty solid.
And I think the thing that you'll notice the clearest
is probably the sort of width of the rim
at the drinking point, right?
Like that kind of directs the coffee in this case
onto the tongue, and actually the wider the rim,
in this case this one here,
the more of your tongue it will hit.
And this tends to enhance the kind of mouth feel
of the coffee that you're drinking.
Something a little narrower, you get a more direct
linear, leaner, kind of feeling from that kind of coffee
'cause it's directing it just down the middle of the tongue.
And actually despite the fact that you feel
like it shouldn't, it does have quite a big impact
on how you perceive the texture, the body,
the mouth feel of the coffee, which is interesting.
And this is definitely well-researched,
you see this in wine glasses unquestionably.
Now, they do also make a couple of other claims.
One is on headspace.
Obviously the headspace in these is a little different,
this is much wider.
In theory, you could argue, this is a bigger headspace,
it would trap more aromatics, whereas this is narrower.
But I guess you could argue
that this is therefore more condensed, I don't know.
In my tests, I didn't really notice a huge difference
in aroma between the two glasses
and day to day if I'm just drinking coffee,
I don't really spend that much time just sniffing my cup,
that's kind of a bit weird.
It's not a part of it, I'm just drinking,
enjoying, thinking about that.
They do also say one thing that the sort
of open area changes the oxidation of the coffee
which changes the acidity, which is new to me.
I would imagine that just the act of drinking,
the agitation of moving the glass backwards and forwards
would be enough to introduce lots of fresh oxygen
into the glass.
So I can't imagine you'd really have a substantial
difference in oxidation and I'm not sure
I'll ever want much oxidation.
Anyway, that's kind of that.
Now, before we go any further
I should probably just put some coffee in these.
And this is a Kenyan coffee and I would imagine in this
it's gonna be a little leaner, a little brighter,
a little kind of crisper, whereas in this,
it might enhance that kind of juicy, fuller aspect
of the coffee as it spreads more coffee over my tongue.
You know, you could argue
that there's some confirmation bias going on here
but I don't really worry about that.
They unquestionably feel quite different to me.
They kind of taste quite different.
My brain is thinking about them in kind of a different way.
And honestly, given the choice,
I'd probably drink out of this one a lot more than this one,
'cause I like that kind of rounder, fuller feeling
with coffees, but it is just kind of fun, you do you.
Now, that brings us to the other part of this
which is how do I feel about how they look?
And I feel a bunch of ways about this.
If a random family member walked
into the kitchen and found me stood,
drinking out of this, there'd be some explaining to do.
They're definitely quite unusual.
I would worry that you would feel a touch
pretentious drinking out of something like this.
Style-wise, they're kind of weird,
they are, I don't know, I'm kind of torn on this one.
They've got like a little bit of googie architecture
sort of vibes about them.
Someone mentioned the Jetsons
and I thought that was a super good call.
It feels a little bit like something that they might have
for an extra on set in the background of a Star Trek movie
when they go to a bar.
It's good, kind of a retro-futuristic vibe to me,
and if you like that, that's cool,
if you don't like that, I guess that's cool too.
Now they come as a set of two like this,
so you get one of each.
A little bit awkward if you share coffee
with someone on the day to day
and you both like the same glass
that might get a bit awkward.
And they are of course glass
which means they are much more breakable
than something like ceramic,
I would definitely worry about that.
I love Zalto glassware for wine
and having broken one or two of those,
you get a bit weird about them
and you suddenly stop using them as much.
So, I would imagine at $25 a glass, you break one,
the other kind of goes away for special occasions,
that would be a thought at the back of my brain.
But some people really like how these looks,
some people really don't, that's up to you.
Do they work?
Yeah, they do.
You can have a little bit more
of what you like about a coffee
and I think that's kind of cool.
I will say, just going back to the carafe,
I think this is beautiful.
I think on all the glass wares, they've done a cute thing
which is print inside the double-wall
with the kind of crude of an EQ logo.
I think that's a really lovely touch.
I think that the carafe is very pretty,
it doesn't have a ton of space for swirling,
I'm not sure I'd actually use it for a wine decanter
or something like that, but as a way to serve coffee,
that looks, I think lovely.
I'm pretty into the decanter.
Now I backed these actually out of my own money
before Patreon was a thing in my life.
It was a good while ago when this started
but for no real reason, Kruve have sent me extra.
So I have two sets of these glasses to give away.
I'm giving it away on my Patreon.
So thank you to Kruve for giving me those
and I hope they find a happy home.
And that's my review of the Kruve EQ glassware.
I'd be really interested to know your thoughts.
Did you back this as well?
Do you have them?
Are you a cafe using them?
Are you using them at home?
Do you like them?
Do you have a preference?
Are you like me and kind of lean towards this one
'cause you just like a little bit more richness
and roundness and body and texture in your coffee sometimes?
I'd love to know your thoughts.
Do you think they're beautiful?
Let me know in the comments down below.
As always, thank you so much for watching,
have a great day.