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!)
If you are up to the challenge [...]
Episode links:
Coffeegeek article on crema
Coffee Collective Blog post
The Coffee Collective
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… [↩]
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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.