Tag Archives: crema

Video 5 – The return of the absurd

So to wrap up my first successful week (which has been both harder and easier than I imagined): Related links: Previous Absurd Latte Art Challenge Prizes: 12 Month Subscription – Square Mile Coffee Roasters 12 Month Subscription – Transcend Coffee Roasters (Update: Thanks to Poul Mark for his generous offer of coffee from Transcend!  Awesome!)

Video 1 – Crema

Episode links: Coffeegeek article on crema Coffee Collective Blog post The Coffee Collective

Using a lever machine

These last few days have been a pleasant, but steep learning curve.  I know I’ve muttered about pressure profiling from time to time, but I hadn’t really played with a lever machine properly until Gwilym’s WBC prize arrived. 1 Footnotes:Yes, we kindly offered to ‘look after’ it for him for now… [↩]

Crema and the laws of physics

I am sure lots of us have noticed the way crema moves and settles as it pours, but something about it doesn’t make sense and this is just a short post with a video looking at how and why.