Agree with this statement.. get an espresso grinder and an ode for pour over.I have a monolith flat ssp, bunzilla, and two odes (one with ssp multipurpose and one with lab sweet burrs) and I can tell you that the odes are excellent for pourover

Thanks for the review. I can see you spent a lot if time on it and it is appreciated!

Great, how do you like it so far? I personally like to raise the lever very slowly using the pressure gauge as a guide for light roasted coffee (I could see the value in slamming the pressure like that for medium to dark roasts to increase body).. have you tried using the gauge in that fashion yet?

I've had my BC-1 for a number of years. Back when I bought it, the BC-1 was much closer in price to the 500gm Mill City then they are now; the Mill City wasn't worth the extra money then and it definitely isn't worth it now, in my opinion at least

Ha, well said

Ha, typical Steve response, thanks for posting. How adamantly he refutes anything that is different from his current practice and unwillingness to even consider that there are things that could improve the roaster are standard operating procedure for him and speaks it's self. The way he goes about i...

Love it, it is more useful then I originally thought it would be. It shows both preinfusion pressure and pressure build up as you release the lever all the way up to the beginning of the shot (which helps with slow pressure ramps, etc). There is no effect on the thermosyphon

Hi, This is the group cap I used {link} Chrome plated brass, super easy to drill and tap. You'll also either need to buy a new copper gasket or take the old one and hold it with a pliers and hit it with a blowtorch until it glows red, then let it cool off slowly

According to John from Decent espresso the coffee puck compresses at 4bar inhibiting effective preinfusion above this pressure. If this is in fact true as his experiments apparently show then there were be not further benefit to preinfusion above 4 bar

What are your opinions regarding the tricolate, I haven't seen it discussed much. Shouldn't it be similar to your favorite (the stagg x) but with less bypass?