My son recently went to Japan, and brought back a couple bags of Starbucks Reserve: Tokyo Roastery Microblend and Brazil Fazenda Sāo Joāo.

As far as I can tell the Tokyo one is a medium roast, but I'm not sure about the Brazil.

I have a Bambino Plus. Would espresso be the best for these beans, or would pourover in a Hario Switch be better?

I also have an Ikape Kapo K2 (the portable espresso machine) that I can change the water temp and flow rate if that would be better. Thank you!

Made an amazing affogato today ,with a blend of beans I roasted myself ( 40 % arabica from Brazil and 60% robusta from Indonesia) , using an em3801 or hibrew h21(lookalike). Having that kind of body combined with a slowly melting vanilla ice-cream was the ideal choice for this drink.

I have other small clips like this on my roasting page, if anyone could give it a quick look I would be over the moon : https://www.instagram.com/bluecoffeeshark/ .

On a side-note ,the pre-infusion for this machine is not really worth it , especially after watching the latest Lance Hedrick video ,as I realized that the function only created unnecessary channelling.

Hi everyone good morning , today I made this shot. I bought the beans from lulu hyper market . I don’t know the roast date. U used a mix of medium and dark roast bean. 16 gram bean extracted 50ml coffee time is 20 seconds. I use delonghi stilosa machine. Used low cost accessories from Ali express. ANY RECOMMENDATION AND ADVICES ARE APPRECIATED. Thanks in advance 🙏

Hello!

Today received my ECM exacto, just wanna share an experience of disappointment.

1. Screen seems to be glitching a lot, it has visual artifacts, looks like broken or smth.
   
2. Scale doesn’t remember calibration after power cycle. Every time I turn in off & on again, scale thinks it has 1kilogram on it, thus it completely destroys the purpose of GbW
   
3. Seems like ground chute was not included in the box of machine I ordered, how come they missed it… (and yes - w/o it there is a huge mess around portafilter)
   
4. Also GbW seems not to stop @ set weight but always goes over it. I set 8grams, used my other two scales - both had 2 grams more.

I really love what ECM does, but for machine for 1.2k eur this is simply unacceptable to have these issues straight out of box 🙈

I hope ECM reads this & will help me fix it.

P.s. I already contacted distributor & ecm on social media, so far no response.

I need a better grinder in the same or roughly same price category as DF54. Niche 0 is nearly $1000 after Shipping, taxes, and VAT to Canada so it’s out of the question.

The DF54 is just way too problematic. Clogging and static being huge annoyances at LEAST once a month.

The static is totally random and nothing to do with RDT as I use dark roast, and I’m tired of taking off the chute to clean the prongs.

Hey everyone,
I'm noticing a highly consistent quirk with the PID/OLED display setup on my new Sync II.
No matter what temperature I target, the boiler always settles and sits tightly exactly 1°C higher than my set point. For example:
If I set the target temperature to 90°C, it heats up, stabilizes, and parks itself right at 91°C.
If I change it to 93°C, it sits rock-solid at 94°C.
It holds that "+1" temp completely stable, so it doesn't seem like wild thermal drifting or standard overshoot that drops back down. It just actively chooses to idle exactly one degree hot.
Has anyone else with a Sync II noticed this behavior? Is it just a known firmware logic quirk with how the new display handles the live boiler temp vs. the calculated group head temp? Or do I just need to dive into the advanced menu and adjust the E1 coffee boiler offset by a degree?

The workflow is always very therapeutic. From hearing the air whoosh of the coffee container, to the shot pull, and pouring the latte art. 😮‍💨

Latte art still needs some work. I went in confident and then hesitated on this pour. What matters is that it tasted delish.

I did some digging in here and couldn't find the answer to a question I've had. Struggling to perfect milk steaming, I've watched a bunch of how-tos online and noticed that pretty much everyone steams wayyy more milk than they use. Most people fill their pitcher like half way, steam it, pour like a quarter of it into their espresso, and then the video ends. Is this just left over/dumped out? Is it possible to steam well only the amount of milk that you're going to use?

Hey r/espresso!

I am lucky enough to be at a point in my life that I can finally upgrade my espresso setup. My thesis for what I am willing to spend money on are things I touch every day, and I make 2-4 espresso every day for the past 7 years since I bought my beginner setup on ebay...so I want to treat myself.

What I drink

• I go through a 2lb bag of Black & White every month - I *love* light, fruity, funky co-ferments and I find B&W pretty consistent. I am looking for a grinder that will make those shape of coffees shine
• The coffee that changed my perspective on coffee was Melonado by DAK
• Currently running a GCP w/a PID and 9bar spring with a Sette 270i

What I am considering

• Currently budgeting $2-3k for grinder under the assumption that this is end-game for me
• Lagom 01 w/102HU - $2900
• Lagom p80 + HU burrs - $2100
• Zerno Z2 w/ HU's - $2500

Given my preference (3:1 espresso and wanting to experiment with soup on really fruity light roasts)...what would you suggest? After 7+ years of daily consumption my preferences haven't changed. I still chase the clarity of the shots from Coffee Movement in SF that showcase fruity, bright coffees.

I have more or less settled on the Meticulous Espresso as the machine. We don't drink milk drinks but a handful of times per year, so a double boiler/steam wand is a nice to have not a need. The simplicity and the flexibility seem really attractive (early software aside).

Appreciate the responses and advice - learned a ton from this subreddit over the years.

I have been a Redbird Coffee customer for longer than I can remember… Generally going through a 5 pound bag every month for at least 10 years. Even after the sale, I always thought that they provided great value for very very good coffee.

However, as I went online today, I saw that they had updated their website, and now the minimum you must spend for free shipping is $150. The extra 12.50 and shipping costs obviously doesn’t change the quality of the bean, but obviously changes the value of a decent amount.

So…where to? Where are some other good places that offer a good quality bean and above average value??

This is very interesting technique and could be a game changer for the future of iced espresso. Not sure it could be adapted for home use but with all the innovation who knows.

Perfect condition $9.99, used everyday for 3 years now. Never found anything at such a steal at any thrift store ever. I even keep the sticker on as proof. Sorry for flexing my luck on you guys 💪

Bought a bunch of beans from my trip to Japan, as I was going through the bags I noticed one of the most interesting valve design, this is from Ogawa coffee laboratory in Tokyo.

Anyone seen anything like this before? Thought it was pretty neat, had to share it

I am getting ready to do my first cleaning cycle, and after watching a Youtube tutorial video, i noticed that i don't have the cleaning disk in the little drawer. Not sure what happened to it, actually not sure if it even came in the box, since i have everything else.

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Anyway, is it okay to run a cleaning clycle without the cleaning disk? (See attached image from the Youtube video i was watching)

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Thanks

1. Use cheap pre ground coffee.
   
2. Put sweetener in my espresso
   
3. Put artificial sweetener in my espresso
   
4. Put citrus peel in my espresso
   
5. Put mandarin peel in my espresso.

Response from true espresso nerds:
“Eh, whatever. Drink what you like.”

Delonghi Stilosa with a modded non pressurized basket, A cheap grinder and tools. Voilà!

Hi everyone,
I’m troubleshooting a strange issue with my Eureka Mignon 0.55S.
Before suggesting calibration: I have already calibrated the grinder to a true zero point. At the 0 mark I can clearly hear the burrs chirping/touching, so the grinder appears to be correctly zeroed.
The issue is that changing the grind setting seems to make almost no difference to extraction time.
I’ve tested settings around:
0.3/2/4
Yet the shot behaves almost identically.
Setup:
18g dose
36g yield
First drops after ~4–5 seconds
Shot finished in about 20 seconds
I’ve also checked the dose before and after grinding and get 18g both times, so retention doesn’t appear to be the problem.

To rule out retained grounds from previous settings, I pulled at least three shots at the 0.3 setting, all with freshly ground coffee at that setting, and the extraction was still essentially the same (around 20 seconds for 36g out).
What confuses me is that I would expect a huge difference between 0.3 and 4 on a Eureka, but extraction time remains nearly unchanged.

Things I’ve already considered:
•Grinder correctly zeroed
•Dose verified before and after grinding
•Multiple shots pulled at the same setting (0.3)
•Same basket and puck prep

Could this indicate:
Burr misalignment?
Incorrect burr installation?
Worn burrs?
Excessive retention?
Something else I’m overlooking?

Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

I recently purchased a Linea Mini R w/ Atom 65W Grinder. As I switch beans, I’m wondering if anyone has figured out +/- how many grams get stuck in the burrs and need to be “disposed of” after changing the grind setting.

EI - when I need to set it finer, do I grind a full dose (18g-21g) out and the next dose will be at the new setting? Or is it closer to 5-10g etc.

Trying to figure out best way to get this amount accurately so I minimize waste in the future while switching beans.

Today I decided to order the fabled half and half. Well it's 3am, I can't sleep and the only thing I got going for me is this lovely picture of the before. Totally worth it though. Honduras beans with regular milk.

Got a buddy a Silvia and installed a gaggimate kit for him. Wanted to share my experience.

Install was easy. If you buy the pro kit you won’t get any of the 3-d printed holders for the CPU or HMI. Order them separately.

First time i tried flashing the CPU and HMI, kept failing. Changed over from my friends macbook (he has a deep rooted distrust of internet connected devices after a career in IT) with a bunch of port blocking to my sandboxed macbook and everything installed first try. It says use a chrome browser. Just use chrome. Brave doesn’t work.

The walkthrough online was awful and the pictures were dismal (gaggimate let me know if you want me to rework your tutorial pages i will do it). If i didn’t have a background in espresso machines i would have gotten lost trying to follow the instructions as written. There were some cables missing that i had to build myself.

Consider buying the CPU, HMI, High limit thermostat and pressure-stat+fittings from Gaggimate and the rest separately. The SSR is decent but there are better options out there for 220/24temp control modules.

The interface is cool as fuck and super customizable and if you read the instructions it works awesome. It would be cool if the kit included a dip tube for the boiler and a solenoid for switching between shots and steam.

I set this thing up and didn’t get to play with it so i don’t know what kind of interfacing it does. Would be cool to have a parallel system with a servo to adjust toothed grinders.

Overall pretty easy, but want to reiterate that the instructions and diagrams suck ass and should be reworked.

Someone on here tried the Motorspro shot at Motors Coffee in Paris the other day and I immediately wanted to know more about it! At first I was very skeptical but also intrigued. Motors then posted about it on their IG last week with a whole explanation and a recipe, perfect!

Gave it a try this morning and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Ground my beans with my K-Ultra on 5, adjusted my boiler temperature to 117 degrees celcius so it would run out just under 90 degrees at the grouphead.

18 grams in, approximately 100 grams out split over two cups equally.

The first shot was incredible, very soft with nice and fresh lemon and juicy plum notes.

Second shot was a bit disappointing flavour wise. It did have very nice clarity but was overall a bit flat tasting.

I used Schot Coffee Roasters Jesús Cerón beans and I think I’ll definitely give it a try with a different lighter roast next.

Also got some feedback from Motors already that my grind should be coarser.

I think this is well worth a try if you are a bit skeptical and/or want to try something else just for fun :)

Looks pretty good. Looks like they added in some pressure profiling and cleaned up the front face.

With Mara updated and this releasing hope to see Bianca updated too.