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all the grinding range is smushed into the lower 20 clicks of the grinding range. It appears to do certain styles of drip coffee really well - depending upon where you are in the "drip" range. This has been fixed. Update: The very latest sample I...
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- Category: Articles
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not faired well in my effort to obtain this beautiful piece of art. It is a piece that fits well with my old world soul. My coffee day is intricate, romanced. I hand roast my beans in a hundred year old cast iron pan that has such a coffee patina, that...
- Type: Article
- Author: Cherri Lynn
- Category: Creative
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we published this treatise on the Rancilio Silvia espresso machine -- it has since been read about 600,000 times. A Local coffee enthusiast, Bert M., took it all to heart and set out on a journey with this great Italian coffee maker - here is his...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Brew
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Colin - Editor/Creatorhttp://coffeecrew.com/index.php/buzz-me
almost immediately, Send any e-mail to rnewell AT shaw DOT ca (rnewell@shaw.ca) Since 1994, the Victoria B.C. based website coffeecrew.com team has helped connect our readers with better brewing techniques - whether it's espresso, drip coffee, great...
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- Category: Senior Staff
- Region: B.C.
- Country: CANADA
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minute warm-up (or longer) is all you need to pre-heat the machine and the portafilter. Be careful about putting too much coffee in the basket. Inserting the portafilter becomes difficult and you may get the dreaded "pfutt" and end up with coffee...
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- Author: Corey S
- Category: Articles
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the pressure to subside by itself or suffer the indignity of a portafilter “sneeze” – an explosion of very hot water and coffee grounds. Messy and not very safe either. Why backflush at all? It is quite likely that a solenoid valve can survive for years...
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- Author: Corey S
- Category: Cafe Talk
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would involve compromises. Alas, I have not the company and thus not the need to do so; hopefully this will change. Good coffee, if I may dare label my efforts thus, begs to be shared. * Gaggia is finicky, but fair This lil' black workhorse is pretty...
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- Category: Articles
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This is the first installment in a series on surviving the retail experience in the coffee world. With chapter one, Glenn describes the heartache of laying out good cash on a grinder that he critically researched only to be dealt one low blow after...
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- Author: Glenn S and Colin
- Category: Articles
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to wrap your hands (and in this case your arms) around something very solidly made - and very heavy. The folks at Quality Coffee Systems in Vancouver were good enough to loan me a sample unit for a few weeks - they are the same people that loaned me the...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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the person experiences a temporary "high." Caffeine may be found in its natural state in many plants, including tea leaves, coffee beans, and cocoa nuts. The pure form of caffeine is a bitter, white, crystalline powder derived from the decaffeinating...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin
- Category: Lifestyle
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thermostats, pressure, and temperature. Our next topic is pumps and the mechanisms of moving the water through the ground coffee. In the photo at right, I pulled out a boiler from Gaggia espresso machine. Before I do that, let me touch very briefly on...
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- Author: colin
- Category: Lifestyle
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up that lovely African rosewood that Reg, Himself has painstakenly turned? Why break that seal between the basket and the coffee that you had worked so hard to attain? Ahh you say...to dislodge the grains of coffee that might be stuck to the inside of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Corey S
- Category: Brew
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can do it all! Ah the joys of winter roasting! It is a good idea to open the garage door around first crack or so because coffee smoke may not be good for the lungs. Roast as normal until you hit the cool button. Open up the flaps and open the damper(s)...
- Type: Article
- Author: Corey S
- Category: Lifestyle
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What makes a diner a success? Is it the food? It is the coffee? Is it the staff or location or the furnishings? We checked out Floyd's Diner for the first time today. The CoffeeCrew was meeting up with one of our new travel scouts, one of the people...
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- Author: colin newell
- Category: Lifestyle
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later my grinder finally arrives. I was supposed to get a new grinder in a unopened box. What I got was an opened box with coffee beans and grounds strewn everywhere. There was no note anywhere. So what do I have? A new grinder that has been pre-tested...
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- Author: Corey S
- Category: Articles
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case. The second grinder was no better than the first. Two Innovas running side by side and neither is capable of grinding coffee beans. It looks like the Innova I-1 has some serious design flaws compounded perhaps by manufacturing difficulties. Poor...
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- Author: Corey S
- Category: Articles
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burgers and salads. The breakfasts are, in my estimation, greasy, poorly made, cheap and in a word, unhealthy. The coffee is, without mincing words, appalling. Combine these two critical factors and you have, for me, the ideal combination. One of the...
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- Author: colin newell
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I’ve got coffee. I’ve got chocolate. It’s all organic. Who could ask for anything more? Not only to I get to live in the most beautiful place in Canada (my biased opinion), and work on the peaceful university campus, I am wonderfully spoiled at work....
- Type: Article
- Author: April F.
- Category: Lifestyle
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Glenn reviews the My Weigh MX300 digital scale. Many drip coffee and espresso enthusiasts like to home roast and use a digital scale to measure their green beans more precisely. Some adventurous types will even measure the weight of each shot for...
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- Author: Corey S
- Category: Articles
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One of the joys of reviewing coffee equipment, espresso machines, grinders and so on - is the variety... and the pleasant surprises that come with the task. And task it is - and responsibility. Because at some point you come to the conclusion that this...
- Type: Article
- Author: colin newell
- Category: Articles
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