Coffee types, you may have been auto-tweeted by a bot that has been floating around for some time now. It’s the Cultivar Awareness Bot, a snarky and pun-obsessedย Twitter feedย whose only purpose is to correct improper usage of the nounย ‘varietal.’ That’s right – Bourbon or Pacamara or SL-69 are not, in fact, your favorite varietals; according to this grammatical robot (and his prestigious list of supporting sources), they are yourย favorite varieties,ย or if you still needed to sound erudite, your favorite cultivars.

This pedantic project was obviously createdย by some total wine dork(s)ย – serving as proof that wineย geeks are trumping us on the creative front –ย butย the Awareness Bot does not aim itsย digitalย huff-and-puff at viticulture alone. He / she / it isย more than willing to step in and tut-tut the usage of coffee tweeters.

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From the Cultivar Awareness Bot FAQ:

Youโ€™re clearly a wine bot, but you responded to my tweet about coffee.

Remember, Iโ€™m a simple bot. There are times when I can figure out that youโ€™re tweeting about coffee (or olive oil, or chocolate, for that matter), but Iโ€™m not some fancy-schmancy AI program that can somehow grok the meaning of your tweet. I canโ€™t tell that a half caf pumpkin soy Venti refers to coffee (if very dubiously). That said, the coffee world, too, is rife with misuse of the word โ€œvarietal,โ€ and I am grateful for my many coffee geek followers. (Those who talk about โ€œvarietalsโ€ of

Don’t you have better things to do with your time?

You forget Iโ€™m a bot. I have all the time in the world.

Cultivar Awareness Bot, you’re the best non-human Twitter user since the Bronx Zoo’s Cobra.

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