Reg Barber Londinium tampers have been shipped
We hope to receive these in about 8 days or so.
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Leaky Bacchi? No worries!
When lubing the Bacchi and changing the o-ring in the base doesn’t address the problem, then the cast aluminium base plate has been distorted ever so lightly (you wont be able to detect simply by eye-balling the top surface) as…
Reg Barber Londinium tampers are getting closer
Reg Barber of Canada is building us some very nice espresso tampers. We like the modern appearance of satin finished aluminium tamper handles, but for our money a metal or high density synthetic tamper handle is unpleasantly cold when you’ve…
UK deliveries
As Royal Mail seems to be committed to pricing itself off the market, without making any attempt to introduce process efficiencies by investing in technology or improving the customer experience in general, we are pleased to announce that Interlink will…
What’s unique about a Londinium coffee subscription?
Typically a coffee subscription is a prepaid product for a defined period of time, often 6 or 12 months, whereby you are asked to pay the full amount in advance. Having parted with your cash, if for any reason you…
Continuous improvement
Well-meaning initiatives like this dreamt up as ‘products’ by top management consultancies like McKinsey have a very short half-life and quickly degenerate into mere ‘buzzwords’ in the corporate lexicon to be derided, although not when anyone is listening. Notwithstanding, the…
Fresh Bacchi espresso machine stock has arrived
The number of days since roast date: the neglected variable in espresso preparation
As a coffee aficionado you will already know the importance of bean selection, correctly roasted, correct water composition, correct water temperature, correct grind, correct dose of ground coffee, correct pre-infusion, correct extraction time, correct cups, correct temperature of the cups,…
Machinery: automotive & espresso
Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, famously said ‘if you want to go faster, just add lightness’. Add to this the slightly more pessimistic observation that has become known as ‘Murphy’s Law’, ‘if anything can go wrong, it will’,…
UK coffee roasters’ championship anyone?
Isn’t it high time that one of the UK coffee brokers organised a UK coffee roasters’ championship?