Here is a triple. I upped my pressure to 10-bar and the espresso is great. This shot ran forever and was a thick sweet milk chocolate. The blend is a 14-day old Classic Italian Espresso Blend from Sweet Maria's. I let them roast it this time.

A couple of videos for (my La Pavoni ) inspiration:

I am glad that my video inspires you ! (mine is the first of the three).

I am curious: what do you think about my new video ?



Thanks,
Niv

WOW! All thumbs up!

Paying attention to my brewing temps and the return of the WDT my espresso has improved very much...

here is one from start to finish with my Mini Grimac

PS, excuse my dirty hands (varnish)..

Here's one from this morning. This was with 15g of Ambrosia, about 8 days after roast. I preheated the water in my Carezza to about 155, which gets the extraction temp in the 200 range fairly consistently. Preheating the water has really opened up the extraction space with this setup. I've been playing around with dose and grind, but when I can get good flavors they seem to be either muddy and indistinct, or overly concentrated, it's been tough to find a good middle ground. I'm not sure if this is a limit of my set up (lelit grinder) or more due to my technique.

Here's the pour, which looked about average pour wise, and a little short volume wise, with 1oz (15g) in about 22 secs. Any advice/observations/critiques are welcome.

Hi Tristan. You cut it far too early, seems like some ten more seconds before it would blond.


Now to the epic moment...

Ladies and gentelmen,
after over 2.5 years,
thanks to great kindness of John B., opportunity created by Keith and loads of luck
I got a triple basket for ma La Spaziale!!! wooo-hooo!

In the honor of all of this I want to share with you my video of one of my first triple shots:



I'm kinda fortunate lately for I got a new mobile too and it has a video-cam, hopefully my another filming attempts show a progress and firm acquisition of new skill.

Btw if anyone's interested, it's the Dalla Corte triple basket inside a specially modified Vivaldi portafilter, and I don't think the basket will ever get out of it but anyway it's not needed, I got them both together and my stock nude pf (which I got right after buying the machine with ton of other tools thanks to Niko K.) is untouched.

Thanks for your attention,
Cheers
Pawel

This is a double shot with my Bezzera Galatea
Beans - Sumatra Blue Linton (home roasted on the KKTO Roaster)
It was recorded more to show the thick ooze of the coffee as it drops into the cup
You can also hear the trickle in the video



KK