Londinium Blog

Not much time, other than to say we tried the Otto today and we failed miserably The Otto guidance suggests fairly fine coffee, but this all relative to the capabilities of your grinder & the unusually deep portafilter on the…

Guests for supper tonight, providing the perfect excuse to get out the methylated spirits powered Cona vacuum coffee maker. In reflection I’d have to admit I forgotten just how superior the coffee is to filter coffee. Its fairly easy to…

The Otto has arrived! We have purchased one to conduct a full review and see if it really can deliver espresso as claimed. If it does then it provides you with a reduced price point for obtaining espresso at home…

Once you find him it seems so obvious, and if you’re anything like us you’ll think why didn’t I see him immediately? If you find the man between 3 seconds and 1 minute, the right half of the brain is…

We’ll argue long into the night that the biggest health risk presented by high grade coffee is the additives which turn it into a calorie bomb, not the coffee The number one killer in the western world is heart disease,…

If you haven’t heard of the Slowfood organisation yet, we suggest you check it out. Basically they have formed to raise an awareness of the importance of biodiversity in fruit and vegetables in particular, but extending into other areas like…

After much development this coffee has finally been released for sale We are particularly proud of the finished product as i don’t think we have spent more time on any other coffee to ‘get it right’ Enjoy!

we are sinking hours into optimising the roast of the new Ethiopian wild forest grown coffee if we’re honest we’d probably call it cantankerous at this time the day, when we still don’t feel we’ve tamed the beast this might…

Olympia Maximatic review as usual the guys at Home-Barista.com have performed an exceptionally detailed review, this time its the Olympia Maximatic click the link and read on…

I popped in to Fortnum & Mason today to see what was happening on the coffee front It might surprise you to learn that they sell a range of entry level domestic espresso machines Anyway, what I discovered is all…