I got an email from a barista last night who was having trouble some issues with backflushing: I have a 5 group head La Marzocco and I daily backflush with water and detergent. I now […]
We’re just days away from the release of the December+January issue of Barista Magazine, which includes our annual gift guide called Best Bar Tools, in which working baristas and coffee professionals recommend the tools they […]
Former World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe is pretty persnickety about what he will or won’t endorse. Since he’s made quite a famous name for himself since winning the WBC in 2004, and opening his self-titled […]
The alternate title for this post could be “Welcome our Robot Overlords” or perhaps, “Resistance is Futile.” The robots are coming after all, just like the steam-powered shovel came for John Henry. In the end […]
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 […]
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 […]
I just got an email a couple of days ago from inventor Greg Mayworm, whom I had a chance to meet at Coffee Fest Chicago, to let me know that the project he’s been working […]
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 […]
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 […]
My dad and I have always had a pretty awesome relationship. Music was our thing starting way back when ”he took me to my first concert (Cyndi Lauper) when I was 10. After I grew […]
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