This is one last humble request on a topic I know I’ve ranted on about before. It would be really good, when talking about how we are brewing espresso amongst professionals, to start by talking about the weight of the espresso. We need to stop using volume. It is useless. Utterly useless. Saying 1.5oz is …
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Espresso Poll: Results and Analysis
First off a big thank you to everyone who contributed to the espresso poll. It closed out at just under 100 people giving their data. Out of this some data had to be ignored as it was clearly entered in error, leaving just over 90 espressos worth of information. I am not a massive statistics …
A quick espresso survey
POLL NOW CLOSED Brew recipes have been on my mind again recently, so I thought I’d post up this quick poll. I’d love if it people could give me some data on this. If enough people respond then I will post up the results, and any trends that occur. A few quick things. Please dial …
My increasing reliance on scales
These days I drink relatively little espresso (compared to my total coffee intake). Most of the time it is the Chemex or the press.
I am pretty much a 60g/l kind of person when it comes to brewing and, after I was rightly schooled by Kyle Glanville whilst in LA, my grind for the Chemex is pretty coarse. However I just can’t let go of the obsessive chasing of detail. The moment’s where things just come together by mistake are few and far between for me, so I obsess. I tend to use a larger Chemex so when I only want a large cup it bothered me that I didn’t know visually exactly how much water to add, or when I had added enough without guesswork. And guesswork just won’t do.