Reiss Gunson

Reiss Gunson

Try Londinium Espresso as a ristretto

Deploy your Londinium Espresso coffee beans as an espresso and surprise yourself with just how smooth a ristretto can be. Don’t know where to start with a ristretto? The formula is easy, 14-16g of coffee in the double basket, but…

Bacchi maintenance tip

The Bacchi is a very clever and simple design, and easily serviced. One tip we have is to ensure that the piston continues to slide very freely inside the cylinder sleeve when you push up on the piston from underneath…

Free 10-cup Chemex brewer

You’ve most likely read our blog on the 10 cup Chemex maker paired with the KF4 Swissgold filter. So, we now have a 10 cup Chemex brewer going free to a good home. The next person to place an order…

A note on Kopi Luwak

From the first day we offered Kopi Luwak for sale we issued about as explicit a caveat as you might expect to receive anywhere that you should not expect Kopi Luwak to taste 10 or 11 times better than other…

Bosco demonstration machine ordered

Last week we ordered our Bosco demonstration machine, such is the level of interest. We firmly believe that any prospective customer is entitled to try before they buy. For that reason we hold demonstration models of every product we sell…

What’s a blend?

A lot of people cling to the traditional view that an espresso roast needs to be a blend. We have nothing against blends for espresso use per se, there are many exquisite blends, other than to say roasters have at…