Got the new Linea Mini home just last night after picking it up at Clive Coffee here in Portland. Clive held a nice open house event on Memorial Day where they invited customers down to the store to try out some of the new equipment and check out some of their open box buys....

latest edit, 29 March 2021: If it hasn't become obvious, I am dialing back my participation on HB. Hopefully this guide continues to be mostly useful to people in the superb community of BDB users. If you are having problems that cannot be addressed by this guide, or by the...

Wacaco has announced a new product in line with the minpress and nanopresso. This one is called the Picopresso . The previous model seems more akin to toys with mini plastic baskets and tampers plus pressurized baskets and promoting pods. This one seems a bit more serious the...

I just made my first americano using new my Lelit Mara X. The hot water wand imparted a very strong plastic taste. I have it on the highest temp setting. Is this normal? Does this go away over time? Is there anything I can do to speed that up?

Thanks

San Remo seems to have thrown their hat into the ring for the high end single group home machine. The design is very similar to the Cafe Racer. It will be available in 110-120v and 220v with a water tank. It has a manual paddle to pressure/flow profile real time and...

Hi, still trying to clean my e61 group without damaging the chrome. I tried to soak it in some mild citric acid, but it's not budging,
obviously it needs something stronger or vinegar might do it. has anyone ever cleaned one with barkeepers friend or something similar?
it's...

Hi everyone,

First time poster here! We just upgraded to a Magister Stella Pro with PID. While trying to start the machine for the first time we've unfortunately encountered a problem.

The machine turns on and the pump starts to fill the boiler. But it doesn't get any...

I spent an hour and a half testing my Quick Mill Alexia Evo temperature at the boiler and grouphead, following this discussion about test methodology. Note that I flushed water to mimic pulling shots, but didn't actually use coffee. This would have been too wasteful. You can...

With great help here in the Buying Advice forum I finally bought a real espresso machine. I had a Gaggia Classic for a few months last year and it was a very frustrating experience. My new Profitec Pro 600 with flow control arrived this week.

The first task was to spend some...

I started my machine's pump with the portafilter off to heat up the portafilter (I usually just leave it on while the machine's warming up). Surprisingly the water came out steaming for a bit, which I thought wasn't supposed to happen with Mara X on brew priority mode. I did...