Category Archives: Video

A few videos worth watching

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 27, 2010

You may well have seen these videos – but just in case I thought I’d post a few up that I’ve enjoyed recently:
First up a fun video from the Norwegian crew who came to visit London and did the whole Disloyalty Card in a day. Epic, heroic quantities of caffeine consumed! Quite how they managed [...]

Posted in Video | Tagged disloyalty card, Espresso, gwilym, intelligentsia, syphon, Video | 6 Comments

Mypressi Twist

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 23, 2010

At the London Gastronomy Seminars I was given a Mypressi Twist to play with by the UK distributor. I had been toying with buying one having seen the hype online, so this was a rather pleasant surprise.
I didn’t really get a chance to play with it til yesterday afternoon. I’ve played with it some more [...]

Also posted in Coffee, Espresso, Opinion, coffee brewing | 30 Comments

UBF 6 Video

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 25, 2009

I think the most exciting thing about Christmas for me has been time off. Part of that has been having a little spare time to look through the bits of video I shot at the last UBF that Gwilym hosted at Columbia Road. We were all a bit gutted when that morning’s snowfall turned into [...]

Also posted in Barista Competition | Tagged columbia road, gwilym davies, ubf | 3 Comments

Introduction to the Uber

By James Hoffmann | Published: April 7, 2009

Meant to cross post this on here after posting on SQM blog but forgot. Notes I should now add:
1. My initial offset opinion could be wrong, by about 0.5C closer to display. This doesn’t affect findings on stability or repeatability – it is just numbers.
2. I will brew coffee in the next video.
3. The video [...]

Also posted in News, coffee brewing | Tagged boiler, brewing, Coffee, marco, prototype, rant, uber, uberboiler, videocast | 10 Comments

Videocast #3 – Chemex

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 28, 2008

Just a quick link to the third Square Mile videocast:

Videocast #3 – Chemex/Pourover from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
For more information there are some notes on the Square Mile blog.
Comments and discussion always welcome.

Also posted in coffee brewing | Tagged brewing, chemex, coffee brewing, howto, pourover, square mile coffee roasters, technique, videocast | 22 Comments

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