GOAT STORY GINA Smart Coffee Brewing Instrument (Steel)

A great way to make Cold brew coffee 👌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

For the difference in cost between a GINA and, say, a Chemex (about a $200 difference), you would expect the experience to be WOW. You would expect it to make it easier, faster, less fussy.You may be expecting too much. When my GINA arrived, I opened it to find that the cold-drip insert had been shoved so far down into the glass carafe that it had cracked the carafe & it was impossible to remove without causing more damage. Amazon couldn't ship replacement parts so they were kind enough to credit me so that I could order them directly from Goat Story...but this was not a good, initial impression. They seem to have some quality control issues.With that initial experience out of the way, I got down to making coffee. I've only used the pourover method -- the 'French Press' isn't really and the 'cold brew' seems futzy (I have to use _ice_ to control the speed at which the water flows? What?).The GINA makes good coffee and it's handsome sitting on the counter. Good coffee but no better than a Chemex, but good.Their app and their digital/bluetooth scale, though, are pretty raw. The scale tends to wildly fluctuate for no apparent reason -- jumping from 45g of coffee to 1050g momentarily, then back to 45g. The app requires me to create an account & logon...to make coffee. It routinely forgets settings and it has a distinct lack of smart responses (expecting, for example, that anything from 200g of water to 700g of water are all going to take exactly 4 minutes to brew).The (replacement, uncracked) carafe is also fairly thin and won't hold temperature well.

This setup in some places in the world costs 5$ or less. This price tag is a joke.

I liked the machine I think I’m going to use it for my every morning coffeeIt’s great that it calculate how many water you have to brew according to the weight of coffee ....no more calculation

With the first shipment, the glass was broken. I returned it, and when I received the replacement, I found a permanent black scuff on the white ceramic. I decided to keep it as is, but I am not happy.

Great cup of coffee, app is not the best

Quality product