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- 1 minute ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
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E61 overpressure during backflushing
Sounds totally normal to me. Normally the pressure in the brew circuit is limited by the pump which bypasses output at 9 bar (or wherever it's set) and the OPV which will relieve pressure in the brew boiler when the expansion due to heat brings the pressure to 12 bar. If you close off the exit from the brew
- 3 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
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- Views: 166
Have owned a La Pavoni Professional for over a year... need decent grinder.
At that price range, another vote for a hand grinder. For the lower end consider Kingrinder (on Amazon I think, K series) which people seem to appreciate. A bit up from there you start having OE Lido, 1zpresso (J, K, whatever). Then Comandante / Kinu / Pietro. Hand cranking really doesn't bring much extra hassle to La Pavoni routine
- 9 minutes ago
- Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
- Replies: 10
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Brasilia Club - boiler keep pushing out gasket
It could just be expansion pressure of the boiler is allowing the pressure to exceed what the gasket can withstand. I'm not familiar with a machine of that type (Faema Family, Imat Professional, ECM CasaV, Proftec Pro 500, etc) that doesn't have some sort of OPV working as an expansion valve. If you let it heat with the steam valve
- 12 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffees
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Dak natural coffees - brew approaches?
Depends, maybe try dropping the ratio to 1:15 or so, or perhaps make a long bloom + one pour a bit like what Lance did in the latest video. A declining temperature profile might also help. It really depends on what your after. As a reference I just recently finished a bag of Kawa anaerobic natural that was quite
- 17 minutes ago
- Forum: Lever Espresso Machines
- Replies: 13
- Views: 334
(Ab)using the Europiccola to pull coffee instead of espresso
I'm using small glass jars (1-2 dl) for freezer, they seal well, ATM I still have one jar from september and it's ok. Didn't work in the fridge - coffee got stale a few days after it got stale in the bag outside the fridge
- 23 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 1
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VBM Domobar Super or La Marzocco Linea Micra
I haven't gotten to see a Domobar, but it sounds interesting. If you're interested in flow profiling, why not take a look at the Sanremo You? It has some pretty cool features such as the ability to manually profile a shot with the paddle, then it can replicate that shot for you digitally. I also think its
- 36 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffees
- Replies: 130
- Views: 9925
Blueberry (or any berry) bomb coffee recommendations?
Thanks for this recommendation! This is my first time ordering from compass and I'm very impressed. I'm getting prominent berry flavors in my pour over and espresso. To my palate, the dominant flavor is fermented/overripe strawberry rather than 'blueberry muffin' but there is definitely blueberry and other jammy flavors coming through. Excited to see how it develops over the next
- 41 minutes ago
- Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
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Philly / PA coffee events / meet-ups?
Anyone know of any coffee classes / tasting events / meetups that happen around the Philadelphia area? Would love to attend something
- 43 minutes ago
- Forum: Coffees
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Dak natural coffees - brew approaches?
Hi everyone - curious how you've approached Dak (or similarly light roasted) natural / more processed coffees? Typically , my approached with washed coffees is boiling water, medium fine grind, 15:250 ratio, 3 pours including a bloom. Will more processed coffees benefit from an alternate approach, even if they are very lightly roasted? (Ex substantial temp drop
- 45 minutes ago
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12
VBM Domobar Super or La Marzocco Linea Micra
Hi All, I saw the recent review by Dan of the VBM Domobar with the flow profiling and it looks interesting and it looks like there are programs to also flow profile on it that you can set. I would probably opt to program it and profile that way as opposed to the knob profiling way. I