Coffee Gear and Equipment

Tamp Road Trip!

Prima Coffee‘s Prima Tamp is really awesome and unique: its adjustable angle allows the barista a more ergonomic option for putting that pressure on the coffee in the portafilter. The coffee nerds who made the […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Time Traveling with Unic

When the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) announced that its annual conference for 2013 would be held in Nice, France, the staff from Unic espresso machines jumped for joy. Why? Because unlike its competition […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

The Intelligent Dosing Ring by Costas Pliatsikas

Swedish cafe and roastery owner, and former barista champion Costas Pliatsikas has been even busier than usual this past year: besides operating his successful company, Costas Roastery, he has been working night and day on […]

Barista Gear

Coffee Paddles By Emily

I love how in the coffee industry, you meet creative people through creative people, like we’re all connected somehow, you just have to unearth the ties that bind us. Daniel Thompson of Buttondown Photography shot […]

Geek

Gettin My Science On

When I was 16, I somehow convinced the biology teacher to let me write poems about nature rather than taking biology class (I grew up in Berkeley, what’s it to ya?). I went on to […]

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Barista Gear

I’m In Linea-Love with You

When Whitney Cornell of La Marzocco first told me about the Linea Love concept that the company was launching to promote the next generation Linea, which will debut at the SCAA show in Boston on […]