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A video with Tim Wendelboe on growing coffee with biology at the recent Nordic Roasters Forum. I met with Tim just a year ago, before he had determined an approach to use with his new plantings and encouraged him to go in this direction on his new coffee farm in Colombia he then...
I'm curious what people are using for baskets nowadays. Sometimes it seems that everyone has pretty much standardized on VST, then other times I get the feeling people are turning away. Especially considering all the pretty extraction videos people are posting. Those couldn't be...
No, not on the mini itself. I'm still fighting to get good shots out of it, standard ramp up. But it's interesting to me, though in no way surprising, how much better my espresso became on my old machine once I started researching a new one - thinking about coffee almost from...
I was lucky enough to see the premiere of this documentary a few months ago. It goes behind the scenes to show us the astonishing work and dedication that goes into preparing to compete for a national barista championship. If you get around the better L.A. coffee bars, you will...
I've had my Strega for 2.5 years and always with a water softener. I finally picked up some spare heater element gaskets so I could open it up and check
the boiler for scale. I was pleased to find no scale buildup at all and no sediment in the boiler but everything except the...
No, trust me, this is not about the ghastly sweet stuff some folks use to obscure the flavors in their coffee....
Triggered by reading simple syrup I recalled that I needed a strong coffee extract for a dessert....and it got me wondering if anyone here has researched the best...