I know sugar is bad and it's probably considered sacrilege to add it to a shot of espresso. BUT, I do add a small amount to my 36g shot and it is heaven on earth!
Do any of you add sugar to your shot? If so, how much? (asking for a friend... :oops: )

I've seen maybe a hundred videos of people making espressos and with all of the grinding and distributing and tamping, there's never a stray grain of coffee grounds to be seen anywhere!?!

I've never been able to make espressos without at least some bits of grounds ending up on...

New here! Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here.

My tastes seem to fall on either end of the spectrum. I either want a bold, full-bodied espresso or basically a dessert (latte with flavored sweeteners). :D

I have used Holy Kakow syrups, their cardamom syrup is...

Hello Community,

I'm not new to coffee, but I'm new in this forum.

After I've came across, that people doing many paperwork and write down any parameters they need to, I found that there are many apps outside for coffee, but no app is really fitting the needs of the coffee...

So I was looking at this old thread The Ideal Palate Refresher and only the last two posts talked about what I needed. Specifically clearing out toothpaste. What do you use to prepare for your first shot in the morning? I brush my teeth and that minty fresh breath doesn't go...

Very interested to hear the takes HB has.

Schomer, Rao, & Perger were selected for name recognition- feel free to substitute their names with literally any other coffee figure with a large audience.

We all have them, for some of us it's the rituals related to dosing and tamping, for other's it's the grinding and prepping.

I have to share one I created without knowing it.

My wife has never been a coffee drinker until earlier this year. Since we're living on a yacht...

@TomC and I just got some LED lights for our cameras. Thought it might be fun for people to post whatever images they like, kinda like the Greens or Crazy Sh*t thread.

Here is one taken with my 105Macro with the new light on a Nikon Z5.

The Ono Coffee YouTube channel - - visited Greg Scace at his house a while back and has been putting out a bunch of videos of the visit. The YouTube descriptions of each video is complete with chapter markers so you can skip to parts of each video that you're interested in. I...

Comes with an odor wheel and a long backstory .

For now, each trade and industry has its own, home grown sensory evaluation methods, e.g. three different taste wheels for wine, beer, and coffee. Chuck McGinley looks to be creating universal skills and vocabulary for smell.