Tag Archives: gwilym

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, Espresso, intelligentsia, syphon, Video | 6 Comments

Video 11 – I’ve run out of titles

By James Hoffmann | Published: July 21, 2009

Here’s today’s video – bit late again, but still here!

Links:
Matt Webb’s talk
Coffee at Wikipedia.org

Posted in Videoblog | Also tagged knowledge, open source, starbucks, Videoblog, wikipedia | 9 Comments

Video 6 – A visit to Gwilym

By James Hoffmann | Published: July 13, 2009

I forgot my video camera, but thankfully I had made a little video on Sunday. The title says it all really.

Questions for next week in the comments please!

Posted in Videoblog | Also tagged Video, Videoblog, wbc | 21 Comments

Using a lever machine

By James Hoffmann | Published: June 2, 2009

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… [↩]

Posted in Espresso | Also tagged arduino, brew pressure, brewing, Coffee, crema, Espresso, learning, lever, naked portafilters, pressure profiling, vintage | 18 Comments

WBC Thoughts

By James Hoffmann | Published: May 1, 2009

I should probably try and post some vague approximations of all the craziness, stress, surprise and good times that was the WBC this year.
So – Gwilym’s performance: I am sure pretty much everyone has worked out that we didn’t go to this competition with the main goal of winning. The idea this year was the [...]