Coffee Appreciation

What @Tenderloin said, I make a few cups in the morning but only drink one there and then and will drink the other one(s) a few hours later

Or even on their websites. It’s hard to include it all on the package, but a simple qr code helps.

We do this at FCP, the code goes to the product page which has the transparency info. Alongside that we share full P&L and costs for the cafe and , as soon as we have them, the toastery

Very excited. Although Tim not sure about this coffee machine.

I’m still waiting for the replacement portafilter so time will tell. If it’s terrible gaggia classic perhaps

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Has anybody got a set of scales and a V60 going spare before I order new? Nothing fancy just for office use.

Finally have a grinder. The guy packed it so well.

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Emma's still getting the hang of the inverted aeropress method it seems.

V60 going spare

I’ve never used Pact, but I believe they’re currently giving away v60’s free with your first order.

Hah
I've definitely done that before. At the office, where there wasn't a sink nearby to sort out my mistake.

I've got a v60 going spare, plus a Hario pouring kettle.

Happy to swap for a nice bag of coffee beans

Just the first half of your homemade clever dripper before popping it in the V60, no?

Thanks. I'd need it posting so probably easier to just grab another one from Pact.

Or you just haven't watched the latest Hoffman video ?

That's the problem of having to prepare coffee before having coffee.

Have you briped today?

P.s. A bushcraft open fire bripe mod would be ace. Meth heated bripe too. So much potential.

Good episode. Not something I’ve ever tried

I think at the time of @Tenderloin posting that comment, he was referring to the cone brewer video rather than the very funny bripe episode.

Haha - I was actually just being a dick and pretending like Hat Beard had been caught slipping on the latest Hoffman technique for Aeropress. Bad joke.

But now I want a £60 Stagg dripper

Was honestly tempted to pick up the Bripe until I saw that postage would be £30-40 or so.

I might have understood it as a joke if I'd looked at Emma's inverted attempt 😅🤣 very good. I've definitely done that before.

Oh yeah, with the matching carafe, very nice. I've not come across them before, looks like a tall Kalita Wave.

I'm struggling with my first foray into grinding my own. Posting this for help.

I was using the darker roasted beans from work to get used to the process with a cheaper bean and found a sweet spot for the grind setting. Have switched to a kilo of YB espresso beans but now I'm struggling.

It seems to want a very coarse grind, which I was not expecting. Too fine chokes the flow at the beginning and needs a small dose to compensate. This resulted in too fast flow later in the shot, which I am fairly confident was channelling as the puck was sodden and left with pock marks. Going coarser has fixed the initial flow and channelling, but I have to use a big dose and it's doing that thing that somebody on here described where the grounds are really swelling up, pressing really hard onto the shower screen and climbing up the sides of the basket. It also means the shot is very big (therefore a bit watery).

-Grinder is Sage Smart Grinder Pro. Grind is currently at the coarser end of what I'd call espresso.
-Machine is Gaggia Classic set to 10 Bar and standard double basket and shower screen.
-Water doesn't seem to make any difference between filtered or hard straight from the tap.

Any tips or ideas?

I'd normally keep the weight the same and just go fine, choke the shot and then gradually adjust the grind. Adjusting weight + grind is to many variables (when you have tamp, pressure etc which are harder to account for)

Yeah well nice innit!

Seems cheaper in America so might pick one up when Im next out there.

I have the carafe and just use it with a v60 but its a lovely thing