Coffee Appreciation

Plenty of roasters will do robusta its just that the genetic make up of the plants as well as the preferred growing conditions means that right now the flavour ceiling of arabica is so much higher.

There is a push towards growing high quality Robusta as climate warming greens an eventual reduction in growing land for high grown arabica. but this takes time and resources, something which is not common in the traditional Robusta growing countries.

Add into that that it's in Robusta nature to grow unpleasant bitter and acid compounds as well as more caffeine, as they serve as pest repellants.

can confirm Stone Heart makes for a lovely cup of filter

also just tried Old Spike's Rwandan filter at home. Really nice, sharp fruity notes, especially when left to cool a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92MnoPVtGs

excellent

Any aeropress snobs got a nice ground coffee suggestion? Someting medium with some nice flavours. For a friend. Something I can buy online.

Weanie Beans will grind to your liking and do nice single origin or blends: https://www.weaniebeans.com/

The El Salvador and the Guatemalan are both really tasty.

That's joyous. Thanks for sharing

thanks.
They don't have an aeropress grind option, do you know which of their grinds will be the finest? I presume finest is best for aeropress.

We use a hand grinder in my house, the other coffee nerds in here must be able to advise.

For pour overs, Tiger do a white ceramic filter holder for about £3 or £4. It was one of those, I can't remember which. I seem to remember a pack of 100 filters cost a lot less.

Fair.
I added a note to the order saying to grind accordingly for aeropress. They can figure it out!

Problem is you can make any style of coffee with an aeropress. You can go nearly espresso fine and use a short steep time for an intense brew, or grind really coarse and steep it for a few minutes to get something closer to French Press. I tend to assume people are doing it like I do and use a slightly finer than filter grind when I'm dispatching coffee ground for aeropress.

Maybe they'll give me timing instructions then.
It's for my sister anyway, and she's no snob. So she'll love it whatever.

@Vince This is not far from me, I could collect it. Looks great.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nuova-Simonelli-Appia-Coffee-Machine-/232214287532?hash=item36110cd4ac:g:HRwAAOSwUKxYhQ9E

Thank you for the heads up - looks good and very affordable.

What's the catch??

Review here:
http://www.home-barista.com/espresso-machines/nuova-simonelli-appia-tour-t9611.html

Though I use a pentagonal drill bit for my Porlex

And you can get these where? Clearly my google-fu is weak.

The only catch is that it is untested so the guy doesn't know whether it will work. TBH it looks favourable - you can see the machine has been well looked after, I reckon it would be fine. If not, the fault should be easy to find and the parts are all available.

This will attract quite a lot of bids, I think £350 would be reasonable money.

Oooooh. Very happy to learn that I've been doing the same as you, through no instruction beyond my own testing of different grinds. Hurrah!

Funnily enough I came here to ask you a similar question.

I've seen a Rancilio near me.

This one.

I'm sort of guessing that a tear down and new seals will probably solve the leak. (I'm technically minded so things to bit's doesn't bother me).

Yeah definitely, if you're up for it (and have the space) then a complete strip down, de-scale and replacement of the seals is easy. Rancilio have good parts availability too.

Does anyone here have any experience of Reverse Osmosis systems for coffee shops? I need some advice.

Metal option: https://www.shapeways.com/product/3TB9N9NS2/coffee-grinder-bit-for-drill-driver-cdp-l?optionId=41895157

Plastic Print-It-Yourself option: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:545446

A possible bodge option with bonus security skewers for your bike: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trans-X-Security-Release-Silver-Skewer/dp/B000XD019E

Cheers. As long as it doesn't go silly money I'll buy it as a project.

Good luck!