Tag Archives: Espresso

Cappuccino as conflict

By James Hoffmann | Published: March 7, 2010

Competition season often leaves me with an uneasy relationship with a drink I usually find very enjoyable. I should add that my own view is in no way representative of competition judges, or competitions or anything like that – just a thought rolling around my head.
Generally, it seems, we treat milk as an enemy. People [...]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged brewing, cappuccino, ethiopia, flavours, indonesia, kenya, milk, png | 23 Comments

How much coffee do you drink?

By James Hoffmann | Published: January 31, 2010

As I mentioned in a previous post – I get asked this question quite a lot. So for the month of January I logged every cup of coffee I drank, using a splendid website called Daytum.
So – how many coffees? In January I drank 126 cups, so on average a daily consumption of 4.1
Below is [...]

Posted in Espresso, Opinion, coffee brewing | Also tagged annual coffee consumption, brewed coffee, coffee consumption, data | 17 Comments

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 | Also tagged disloyalty card, gwilym, intelligentsia, syphon, Video | 6 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in Espresso, Opinion | Also tagged brew temperature, espresso machines, extraction, lever machines, pressure profiling, theory | 30 Comments

The problem with grinders

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 30, 2009

A small part of the coffee industry moans quite a lot about coffee grinders, especially espresso grinders. I confess I am one of those people, and I thought I’d post a little bit about what makes us so grumpy but also look at why nothing has happened.

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged coffee grinders, coffee-history, grinding, history, vintage equipment | 28 Comments

7 tips for dialling in an espresso blend

By James Hoffmann | Published: December 12, 2009

These tips probably apply more to a commercial environment than a domestic one, but hopefully there are some useful reminders for anyone in here.
We’ve all ended up chasing an espresso, somehow a delicious espresso remaining elusive. These may seem obvious but all get overlooked from time to time.

Posted in Espresso, Opinion, coffee brewing, how to | Also tagged brew recipes, brewing, dialling in, how to, palate | 15 Comments

One title doesn’t fit all

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 7, 2009

This is going to be a bit of a mish mash post, a composite of a few different things. Originally I had planned to follow up the previous post on brew temperature and conduct a few experiments but the comments quickly reminded me I need to go and do some serious reading before attempting anything [...]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged home brewing, kit, poll, random, syphon, teflon | 13 Comments

Espresso Poll: Results and Analysis

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 17, 2009

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 expert [...]

Posted in Espresso, News, Opinion | Also tagged brew ratios, extraction, poll. survey, tds | 9 Comments

A quick espresso survey

By James Hoffmann | Published: September 19, 2009

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 your espresso [...]