We’ve just completed the first test roast. These beans are smaller than average, and the bean roasts up darker than comparable beans when roasted to the same temperature, giving the impression that we might have over-done things, when perhaps we…
The Daterra Monte Cristo is the coffee you need. Its called ‘Monte Cristo’ for a reason; the delicious tobacco taste. At Londinium we are aware of the prevalence of ‘the abuse of superlatives’ in the coffee industry. If we say…
A rash of new coffees over the last couple of weeks, some taking a long time to get ‘right’ As a result some of the new coffee hasn’t seen the light of day yet This bourbon variety from the Santuario…
We’ve run our first test roast of this new delivery and have made an espresso immediately afterward with the Mypressi this time (so no time to de-gass, we know, but it allows us to check that the coffee is up…
Week commencing 25 Jan we will take delivery of; 2 lots of costa rican, one from a new source to try outColumbian Supremo, yes we know it’s ‘common’ but through our process it makes a divine espresso, probably our favourite…
Reacquainting ourselves with how the Sigri Estate coffee from Papua New Guinea performs through the fabulous cona coffee maker. Does the roast profile need a small tweak? We like to try our coffee on a revolving basis as they do…
You can buy the Mypressi twist in the UK from these guys; Creamsupplies At GBP119.99 incl VAT we think it is ridiculously good value, given how good an espresso it knocks out. The order page says they have 125 units…
A marvelous coffee but we’ll have to dig around to find the documents that tell us what estate it is from as it is not stamped on the bag, and rather embarrassingly we’ve forgotten! Too many coffees to track. The…
Wow! We are very impressed. Yes, if you live in the UK and its the middle of winter you need to sit the Mypressi in a saucepan of water to warm it up before use, but you dont need to…