Good post Matt, as I purchsed this again recently. My experience seems to coincide with yours. With different coffees I usually prefer ~40 gr in the cup. Yet with the Epic I prefer less, such as 30-35. This makes sense as more compounds are being extracted to balance out the acidity, I would think. ...

... coffees. I think it's the Big Bro that they consider to be a traditional Italian type espresso, not the Burnout. When I visited the Te Aro cafe in Toronto they were serving Burnout

... been consistently annoyed at the prices we have to pay here in Canada and Montreal. It's getting better though since we can buy some of the good Toronto roasters here now at a reasonable price, for example Te Aro and Detour which are being sold at

I've had lots of Te Aro coffees and am rarely disappointed, they are very consistently good or excellent. I tried the Burnout and liked it, it's not very darkly roasted at all really, only a little oil is beginning to appear on the beans, but I guess by light roast standards they consider it strong....

I used to frequent a cafe in Toronto that imported from an Italian company called Caffe Mike. It was quite a good coffee, they used the MIKE "ORO BAR". The company is located in northern Italy (Alessandria), you could try contacting them for orders: {link}

Regular mail back and forth between most of Ontario and the UK is really fast. I am not sure I would trust it out west for coffee. I've sent stuff to my grandparents in England and had it arrive in two days on multiple occasions

wow...I can't even get coffee from Toronto that fast out here in Edmonton. I wonder if Londinium can get here reasonably quickly like it did for you

I'm surprised by, here in Toronto, 49th Parallel roasters ship their coffee the slowest way possible from the west coast. The shops get them in 7 days post roast and that's if they get them in time to put them out on the day they get them. ...

I tried Hairbender at LIT cafe (Toronto) it was pretty amazing. I hear it's difficult to get the brew right though, I haven't brought home any beans yet, but I'm going to give it a shot sometime soon. It compared to Black cat analogue at Manic Coffee, but I think I like hairbender a bit more. I Tried

That is great news. Now all we need in Toronto is someone to bring in Herkimer