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Coffees from Yemen are among my favorites. I'm currently reading The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers...an immigrant success story about Mokhtar Alkhanshali and his efforts to create specialty coffee in Yemen. Fascinating, informative, insightful. I'm enjoying it very much.
Is anyone using Eazytamp 5 Star Pro.
I am interested how deep you can go with standard 7.5 mm flange. I think 3mm is the minimal movement to have the set pressure, but what is the maximum path the flange can go down?
And any other feedback? Is this nice and useful tool?
When finishing our tour of his collection on January 13, 2018, Kent Bakke told me he was interested and willing to host an H-B event to taste coffees brewed in historic lever espresso machines and their precursors. In other words, we would compare brewing with a caffe e'xpress...
I feel like perhaps I'm missing something fundamental but whenever I grind beans in my Mazzer Mini I get a pile in the dosing chamber directly below the throat.
I am trying to control dosing so I can get an even amount of beans with each thwack . Any ideas?
So I ended up buying one of those puck-style distribution tools for something like $7 on aliexpress. I wasn't really expecting much, I had tried one of the super expensive ones at a La Marzocco demo once, and figured I could play around with it and see if it's any good.
I was a...
I have been making mostly milk drinks for over 3 years with the odd shot of straight espresso.
Am I the only one that doesn't taste the difference between one bean to the other?
I know SOMETHING is different in the taste but can only tell if the espresso is sweeter in a...
Browsing my Facebook newsfeed this morning, I came upon this post:
Looks to me like a Rancilio Silvia with a different, more artistically inspired facade. They'll be launching a kickstarter in the near future, but the question remains: will it make good espresso?
This hopefully still falls into a home-barista.com forum topic for discussion and it appears only can be in Knockbox.
Question: do you notice that you drink certain espresso types/roast with certain type of music? I will clarify: when you are drinking espresso for enjoyment...