Coffee Appreciation

Great to see Catford locals Mont58 winning a great taste award. I’m sure there are plenty more niche coffee industry accolades, but all recognition is positive. !

Is it a hot plate or thermal carafe model?

Did you find someone to replace the capacitor?

Did you find what the issue was with the grinder or just buy another.

And they're opening a coffee shop in Sydenham soon!

Hot plate

Anyone with a 54 mm espresso machine, eg Bambino range -

Bought an MHW-3bomber "Flash tamper" recently, the self-levelling, self-pressure-regulating kind. It arrived with a with a tiny dent in the base, not enough to affect the function. I have just received a replacement, so happy to move this one on if anyone's interested. Was £30, so say a £10 forum donation? I'm in east.

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yes please, I'll give that a go - will PM

Would there be interest on here for a v3 Rancillio Silvia - is £200 about right?

Also a Niche zero coffe grinder in black - what’s the going rate £350ish?

seems like a nice price, what are you upgrading too?

if someone is looking for a more modest grinder, I have a eureka mignon which would pair nicely with a the silvia. I ran this combo for like four years and found it great. I doubt you could get a better basic set up for like £320.

My DF64 arrived about 5 weeks after i placed the order. No taxes and well packed.

Now to figure out moving away from the classic boomer shots I was pulling from the mignon.

I'm really happy to put my hand up and call out my own lack of knowledge in the hope that my own ignorance can help anyone going through the same thing.

A while back I mentioned how I was struggling to get similar tasting coffee out of my SPB as I get from the Clever Dripper and I couldn't understand why and I think I asked a couple of questions about grind size in batch brew at the time.

Well at the time I put it down to the Wilfa Svart grinding inconsistenly, which to be fair to me was a real issue, as sometimes I'd get loads of fines and sometimes not.

Recently bought the Fellow Ode on here and while I noticed a marked improvement in consistency I wasn't getting the taste I wanted and was getting a bit disappointed.

Here's where the error I've been making comes in, I just assumed that if I'm brewing 400ml in a Clever Dripper then I should use the same grind level for 900ml in the SPB.

Since that wasn't working, I did some reading on batch brew grind size and ratios and I started learning about 3-6cm bed depth, when I should be switching to flat bottomed filter rather than the cone, and the fact that because the bed depth is bigger I should be grinding coarser because there's more time for extraction.

As a bonus I also read more about when to change grind size and when to increase ratio depending on what I'm tasting - which now seems obvious, but prior to that I don't think I really understood the fundamentals of why to vary one over the other.

So what did I get after reading and learning all that, well I turned the Fellow up to 5 (coarser, much coarser), and returned the ratio to 60g/litre and low and behold, the coffee out the SPB tastes much better and much closer to what I think the optimum taste for that coffee (Guji Flip Flops from Dark Arts) should be.

This was a few days ago and this was a long post but I'm just really pleased that I solved a long standing source of frustration for me that was as easy as, you need to grind coarser for larger volumes of coffee.

I just assumed that if I'm brewing 400ml in a Clever Dripper then I should use the same grind level for 900ml in the SPB.

Oh sweet child. Glad you got it sorted. Your reasoning is why I'm scared of getting a batch brewer - it just seems so much harder to get right/experiment with new coffees when you are using so much of it per brew ya know?

Where do you set the Ode to for CD brews then?

My dad had some Decent cups sent to me. The More Tipsy 250ml cup as I only drink filter. Took about a week and a half to get to California from Hong Kong. Really nice actually. Shape really gets your nose in there from an aroma perspective and they feel very nice to hold both shape and texture-wise.

So what does you coffee look like once ground?

I do 50g in about 750ml of cold brew on the spb.

Replaced the capacitor once and was able to use it for some time. When it died the second time I bought something else. Local shop confirmed that the Svart machines died a lot and had stopped selling them some time ago.

We are using a Mignon Filtro Pro. Less noise and machine feels much more solid.

Which one of you psychos is making this?

https://youtu.be/4BmRXt5mUms?si=uNTzaNFTCxOvS9DB

That's very cool but jesus christ I have enough trouble getting a single temperature coffee to taste good.

I guess you could get a similar effect with two straws.

It troubles me that someone spent months of their life to create this technical feat. But who fucking cares. Drink some good coffee. That’ll do.

Does anyone feel like doing a TLDR for that? I tried following it, followed by skipping through a load of GODDAMN AMERICAN trash talk and then couldn’t pick up what he was trying to achieve.

He made a kind of coffee jello that was liquid enough to drink but solid enough that it didn't combine when hot and cold jellos were poured into two halves of a shot glass.

Thank you for the reply.

Have a svart to repair and was wondering if there were issues beyond the capacitor.

Anyone interested in a DF54? Excellent condition, only a month or so old, won't be needed after house move have box and all bits etc

£175 including postage?

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