Coffee Appreciation

If anybody finds themselves in Gower the only good coffee we could find was Mumbles Coffee ( http://www.mumblescoffee.co.uk ) in Mumbles. Their logo is pretty cool too.

Does anyone want a Delonghi KG79 burr grinder? £20

https://www.delonghi.com/en-gb/kg79-kg-series-grinder/p/KG79

Any coffee recommendations for Isle of Wight?

Po49 (iirc) in Yarmouth was pretty good

Edit po41!

This is the latest from local reporter @plasticniki in the IoW thread.

As of June 2024 the best places are:

PO41, Yarmouth
Lost Mill or Comicoffee, Cowes
Artisan Coffee, East Cowes
Lagom or Hotbox Bakery, Bembridge
Peddlers, Newchurch
Ventnor Exchange, Ventnor (or if it's a Saturday you may be lucky with Ingrams Yard market, but you'll have to descend into Ventnor to get refreshments there and it's a long way back up so would never be my first choice)
M+J's cafe, or the Post Office, Niton (the latter does pizza and from what I've heard it's amazing)
The Bike Box at Afton Down just before Freshwater Bay, one of the best places to get coffee from on the whole island
Beer bus, Wightwood Pizza in Freshwater Bay
Piano Cafe in Freshwater Bay

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There are other nice places not on the route but worth a look if you are here:

Chessell Pottery Cafe
Cook + Baker, Godshill
The Coffee Bubble, Sandown

Haha. Yes! Hello.

@Howard

Lagom, Bembridge
Sheer Pink, Newport (+ Ventnor at weekends I think, check their Instagram)
The Coffee Bubble, Sandown
^these are the best places for a coffee

There's a really good roastery called Jaspers, I'd recommend picking up some of their beans if you find them somewhere. Sadly most of the places which stock their beans don't make amazing coffee (my local Freshwater Coffee House included in that).

The Bike Box up at Afton Down is also great but the chap who runs it has just had a hip operation so they aren't there while he rests up, which is a shame.

Awesome thank you!

Anyone can recommend any central-ish London-based roasters? Have a coffee subscription from Django but occasionally use that up before I get a new bag and want an option for when I need another bag on an ad hoc basis and don't want to pay 3.50 for postage if I can just pop by a shop instead.. Ozone and Square Mile are my go-tos but haven't been looking around for quite a while!

Need a new milk jug any reccos ?

Anyone interested in my Aristarco EMA 75 grinder?

Like this but red and with most of the extra bit stripped off it

https://thehippy.net/blog/aristarco-ema-75/

Old pic. I've removed the built-in tamper and the metal portafilter holder (though probably still have them - they just bolt on IIRC)

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Dark Arts Coffee

you can probably pick up Dark Arts in their Aries popup at the moment (not sure when its ending). Coborn coffee are also based near Kensal Rise but not sure about local pickup. Plenty of 'proper' coffee shops also stock a wide range of great beans, Batch Baby in east or Prufrock on leather lane. Monmouth or even Algerian Coffee Stores are central if you arent fussed about light roasts

Cheers thanks! Prefer lighter roasts so will give Dark Arts a try - their Shoreditch location seems pretty convenient! Does Prufrock stock anything other than SqM?

They do guest roasters, another good spot is Dose in Barbican and Collona just down from Prufrock.

Does Prufrock stock anything other than SqM?

Yeah loads of great roasters. Ive bought prodigy, friedhats and DAK from there before. Oh Paradox in east also stocks a bunch of different roasters too

Lodestar in Clapton also a good place for DAK, AMOC, Friedhats, Sweven if you're East based

Thanks very much - will keep an eye out for the roasters mentioned and have a number of shops now to try!

Gave a spruce up to my Classic today. Installed the box top extension for the PID from Shades of Coffee and added a pressure gauge because why not!

All in all quite simple and please with the way it looks and pleased with no longer having the PID propped on top and falling whenever I move the machine.

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Very neat.

A friend who has a 3D printer made these for me. It pretty much reduces the retention to 0.

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Also very neat! Next step designing and printing a new chute?

What's not so neat is the wonky gauge in my box top, I just really could not be arsed to open it back up by the time I finished up and realised...!

Yes I’ve also got a chute but I need to remove something first which I didn’t have time for last night.

I really want to do this with my Silvia but no idea where to start

If anyone wants some coffee scales in exchange for a (cheap) bag of beans (or other coffee something)... I have some I'm not longer using. They take AAA batteries, work fine, I've just bought some USB rechargeable ones. Postage required.

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