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It's nice having the lever high up, more mechanical advantage. I've used lever machines on carts and stalls where they're too low and it's murder on your elbow, when I had it on a counter I set it quite a bit higher than a regular machine and it was a joy. Handle just above head height like this bloke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExr7R8TT_o
There was a blue Conti multi-boiler lever machine on one stand t the coffee festival it was beautiful.
Stevethecoffee
Cast Iron roasted it, think it was from Morgan Estate in Panama. Guy was saying it's tricky to optimise the roast profile because you can only get really small batches of it.
Yeah Leva looks like more of a showroom/roastery type machine, definitely no good for high volume work. Pretty good design though, I saw other lever machines at the festival and some had the grip ridiculously high up - a shorter person would burn themselves on the grouphead just reaching it.