One of the roasters exhibiting at the London Coffee Festival earlier this month was using a Swan. He was very unhappy with the shape of the hopper, saying that he had to keep toying with the beans to get them to drop properly into the grinder

Do you have a compilation of that work anywhere? I'm interested in your procedure and what you define as retention. I've always taken retention to be the ground coffee that causes shot to shot dose variation, which is pretty easy to measure in single dose grinders. I've always figured that stray coffee that got packed off into

Monitor & photograph your results for reference as colour is an indicator of scale present and your progress

If the boilers aren't filled with water, and you send electricity to the heating elements, things will go pop?

Decided I would give Hacea a try. Yesterday I ordered 3 coffees, 5.5kg. Would be interested to know if anyone else has had these: Guatemala Palencia Finca La Pia La Aurora Washed {link} I love a good Guatemala and their description was very enticing. I'll be very happy if this is a coffee with chocolate notes at

@Sideshow, I agree with you. However, there ARE places that are super dedicated to the craft of coffee. I put out a call here a few weeks ago for top coffee shops in Dallas, and someone mentioned Native Coffee. They have three different espresso choices available, grind them with a Lagom P64, baristas are definite coffee geeks etc. The places

Sorry, saw that now. It is a long thread, but it's good. Will try both (one thing at the time though) to lower my charge temp from 145 C, and also lower the peak. I saw your comment earlier in the thread about the importance of having good circulation of the beans in a vortex. Not sure I

Thx ! Your answer Helped me assess how many days should I be using the 200d burr as I bought a pair of gorilla gear burrs from my another dealer and will probably sell the 200d to him for study purposes

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Hi, a couple of weeks ago my lelit anna (8years old) started to leak, I changed the water tube that was fixed to the valve system and the problem was solved. Directly after, when using the steam pipe, steam leaked from the group head( also when warming up). I changed the gasket and descaled the machine. I added the