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…
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…
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,…
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’,…
Isn’t it high time that one of the UK coffee brokers organised a UK coffee roasters’ championship?
Our latest ‘optimal’ settings for the Bosco are; Boiler pressure: 1.25 bar (indicated) Dose: 16g Pre-infusion: 3 seconds If the machine has been idle the first shots out will be too cold. You will need to run 2 shots to…