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The Newbie Introduction to Espresso series of videos was created specifically for those new to making espresso at home. In addition to watching these videos, I strongly urge newbies to spend an evening with the site's Recommended Reading outlined in the FAQs and Favorites Digest...
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I purchased a Bezzera Mitica machine a while back with the intent of learning to make good (or at least decent) espresso. Milk drinks for my wife will come later assuming I can ever get the espresso to be decent. I have read numerous threads on here (and elsewhere)...
I have just gotten my amateur-ish Breville Baristo Pro a little more than a week ago and I'm getting stuck dialing in my coffee, getting the right yield and extraction.
After speaking to the roasters who roast the (medium roast) beans I...
Within the past year I have experimented with lots of different types of coffees, and to me most of them have had excessive amounts of brightness in them. Being relatively new to espresso, I mostly associate it with bad technique, until I started readying...
A few months ago I bought a Solis (Breville) Grind & Infuse Compact not knowing that I was actually buying a new hobby :roll: . I immediately got some fresh beans from a local coffee roaster and started making mostly cappuccinos. I didn't have a lot of experience at the...
I just recently opened a micro (100sq ft) coffee shop in the front of my dad's chocolate shop. I'm an esthetician by trade but I'm a coffee enthusiast and do it as a hobby. Since the pandemic I thought I can turn this into a little business. But boy I did not realize how...
I'm new here and hope that you can help me. I have a setup containing an Ascaso Dream (old one with boiler) and an Ascaso I-Steel I-1 grinder (Flat burr). The issue I'm having is that my shot has too much output, and my pressure gauge measures 11+ bar of...
