An expensive tamper won’t improve your espresso, but they make the process a lot more enjoyable. Dose & grind are the variables to focus on. Tamping just keeps the coffee down out of the shower screen, seal, and the rim…
Cut & paste from Skype chat: Jonathan Goldsworthy 29/05/2011 22:09 thanks again for the coffee, i am on to the yellow bourbon which is delicious. its really good some of the best that i have had of late for sure…
This arrived at 6am this morning, looking like nephrite jade, just as great green coffee should. This consignment is better than the last one, with a much cleaner, less murky taste. The closet milkies will love it too as it…
When you have more than one Bacchi base it is easy. Take the suspect base off the Bacchi. Carefully present the machined face that the o-ring should be sealing down onto against the same machined face of a second base…
We have had the engineers at Olympia Express in Switzerland build us a custom digital manometer with a fitting that allows us to screw it directly to the top of the boiler. If you have an Olympia espresso machine of…
We hope to receive these in about 8 days or so.
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 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…
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…
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…