Coffee Appreciation

eek.
Sorry

The one down to the drip tray?

(Assuming you meant Gaggia rather than Haggis :)

That’s the one.

Damn my fat fingers

Longer as in, down to the drip tray? Why would you need longer than the stock one?

Loads of places have replacement, off the top of my head it's 5mmID 6mmOD if you want to roll your own.

Yes longer as it creates a bit of a splash

I actually have a longer tube somewhere - it came with a shallower drip tray.

Unfortunately the drip tray itself was 3D printed and didn't survive a trip through the dishwasher.

... turns out that drip tray is still available, now more durable than the one I destroyed, and that you can get the tube on its own from here:
https://www.shadesofcoffee.co.uk/stainless-steel-long-vent-tube-6mm-od-x-5mm-id-x-158mm

Anyone have an espresso grinder they're looking to part ways with? Budget is ideally sub £100 and would probably need posting.

Been to 3 Lidl's today, no sign of one in any.

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I got a set

How do you mute the beeps? It’s not in the manual

Actually not sure because I haven't done it BUT I do know it's listed as one of the features so someone must know!

My normal approach.

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It’s one of the features but not explained in the manual or anywhere else

Yeah... that's odd.

I mean, for me, I appreciate the sounds tbh, especially when there is no "click" from a mechanical button.
If you find out, lemme know!

Looks like there are v1 and v2 versions. And it’s the latter which have the mute function

Am guessing mine are the v1 version

I'm contemplating selling my Niche Zero, rather than shipping it to SG.

Would anyone be interested in it, and if so what's a reasonable price?

You’re lucky to get one for less than £350 on eBay. £400 seems like the regular rate they go for. And I imagine there’d be a few interested on here.

Hi all
Are many people on this thread using multi-roaster subscription services?

I’ve avoided selling on them after a bad experience early on, plus I always had a bad attitude about them being parasitic and it’s a load of extra admin (avoiding admin plays a surprisingly large role in my life) but I now have the staffing capacity to get someone else to do it.

What are important factors in the roasters’ areas of these sites that makes you pick them? Reputation? Price? Breadth of choice? Coffees you recognise?

Cheers.

No. Just my 2c, but I like what I like and don't want someone prescribing coffee to me based on what they think I'll like. Also there are so many good local roasters in my near vicinity that there's no need to clog up the postal service with adding even more miles to the coffee before it reaches me.

The only sub I've ever had was with Artisan but I would choose the coffee before it was dispatched - if I were to sub to anything that would be so key - being able to choose what I get before I get it.

Same as @JB, I swerve the multi-roaster distro brands as it seems like unnecessary additional travel for the coffee.

My workshop colleague has a PACT subscription. There's plenty to like about it and plenty that's "meh". If you interact with the service you can choose your beans before they arrive and such but we tend to just pick the one they call 'premium' or 'small batch' for the illusion of exclusivity/rarity. It takes the pressure off having to buy coffee for the workshop but the system frequently bottlenecks and we end up with with too many or too few beans and balance it out with our personal supplies. Given that their only job is to make sure we have the product with some regularity, they aren't very good at it.

For personal beans, I like the admin to be honest. I like cycling around town on a mission. Can be a fun day out for the family to run a relatively inconsequential errand and have it be an excuse for a day's family bike ride.

My local coffee shop will ask customers what they should get as the guest roaster every month or so which is quite good; they've gone with my choice a couple of times, which has been a treat.

Again, same as @JB, I know what I like but conversely, I rarely buy the same bean twice. It's always struck me as somewhat peculiar that "how do you take your tea/coffee?" is a question we're supposed to have a definitive answer to. I suppose it's not so daft as "how do you take your food?" but maybe more like "how do you take your potatoes?" as if once you've decided, you can never change your mind! I think I'd rather drink a clanger every now and again rather than never have tasted as much as possible.

I tried one (up thread) which promptly closed a few weeks after my first order. One of the coffees was dire and over roasted (to my taste).
And this was after ticking the ‘light fruit driven African coffees’ box.
If I felt a subscription offered what I liked I might try again but what I don’t want is a bag of cheap Brazilian with horrible papery after taste to turn up and go in the bin, if you could pick countries you don’t want to include that would be a bonus.
I guess coffee subscriptions maybe are not for me…
I do have assembly, Colonna and Baileys stockists 2 min walk away so not reliant on ordering beans.
For a producer I guess you might end up getting orders from people who try the coffee, like it and then want some more.

Thanks, that’s good stuff. So the subscription was randomised?

I’m really trying to find ways of getting people to pick my coffee over competitors on the same platform. We were on Gustatory at the start when they had their marketplace for buying individual bags 1-off, but it didn’t generate many leads and we didn’t really put our backs into it. Seemingly that model is dead and it’s now mostly randomised subscriptions so maybe it’s not relevant.

I used https://thecoffeevine.com/ for quite awhile, although the timely receipt of coffees started to be an issue.

It was good for the variety that it offered. I always used the sub-box as supplementary to my consumption, three different bags a month of something I may not have ordinarily ordered.

I like trying new stuff though and get through 500g a week, so have a few favourites. Part of the battle is reading all the emails from roasters!

there's such a surfeit of choice! and there are only so many ways to roast coffee.

I have a hasbean subscription and top up with YB and occasionally square mile.

tbh i could live without the hasbean stuff but i kind if respect that he got in early on, has good service and business ethics and isn't some bunch of VC twats (as far as i know...)

VC not Viet Cong right? Showing my age here.

Steve’s no longer part of Hasbean, they got acquired by Ozone. He’s living in Sweden with the woman from Drop coffee roasters.

Offers for YB from VC twats very much welcomed.