Tag Archives: brew temperature

Talking About Pressure Profiling

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 17, 2010


Is it me or is everyone else a little surprised at the lack of discussion of pressure profiling?
Most of the interesting discussion, if not just about all of it, has been over at home barista where various people are building pressure profiling units for their one group machines.  Still much of that discussion remains more [...]

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Brew temperature

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 27, 2009

This, shockingly enough, isn’t about espresso.  It is about brewed coffee, and the fact that brew temperature is completely wrecking my head.  We talk a lot about brew temperature but what we are really talking about is water delivery temperature.
I love my Uber boiler, I love the control and the delivery temp stability.  With this, [...]

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WBC Machine Testing – Temperature Testing

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 13, 2008

Vancouver is a lovely city, but it seems it likes to rain. So we’ve all been cooped up inside testing the six machines submitted (I am glad I am not the one paying to run 6 three groups all day!)
People probably want to know how this works and I will try and explain, but [...]

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Brew Temperature and the Chemex

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 9, 2007

I remember reading early in my coffee days that someone had done an experiment where they had compared heat loss in porcelain espresso cups of different thicknesses and found that the heat retention of the porcelain didn’t much matter because all the heat went out of the top anyway. Like a lot of what [...]

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