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we're at quill coffee in New Albany Indiana taking a look at the new crupp's ei 9,000 fully automatic espresso machine this compact get it does quite a bit for its compact size it actually will take beans grind them turn them into espresso as well as make espresso drinks by foaming milk automatically you don't have to touch anything except for a few buttons on top of the Krupps 9000 is its bean hopper which holds close to eight and a half ounces of whole beans it has a burr grinder in there that will adjust the grind size depending on the type of drink that you select over here is the LCD screen that enables you to select what drinks you want will that be a milk based drink or a espresso drink that's purely dark coffee you should be able to make about 17 different drinks from this machine with just pressing one or two keys another really wild feature about this machine is that it has a steaming one which is motorized it actually comes up and out and down into your cup processor milk and then it goes back in and cleans itself so you don't even have to touch it in addition to convenience crupp's claims right here that this machine delivers restaurant caliber drinks that's why we came to Quill's coffee which won the America's best coffee house in 2015 in Chicago so we wanted to do some blind taste test with this machine and run it past some of the really highly trained baristas here at Quill's coffee to see what they think this first one's got a very full body it's very very rich Wow I these are actually both very similar shots of espresso the second one was sweeter and so I would guess this came off of our machine so this is this was off the crips Wow I mean $2,500 is a lot of money obviously but to get this kind of espresso just by pressing the button that's very impressive as far as a super automated machine where you're making the espresso at a press of a button that's definitely the best super automatic shot of espresso I've ever had before so what have we learned today it cools coffee well for one thing the corrupts ea 9000 definitely makes shots that are pretty damn good they're good enough to please some of the very discerning baristas here at quills so if you want to duplicate the barista style experience at home and have no qualms about dropping $2,500 then this machine is right up your alley so we want to say thank you to Michael and everyone here at quills for letting us do these tests you can read more of our coffee coverage at cnet.com on Brian Bennett foreseen it appliances