Tag Archives: News

New Slayer Espresso machine

I posted about it in the predictions round up post, and judging from the number of clickthroughs it seemed many people hadn’t been aware of the project.
After Nick Cho posted a spy photo on coffeed, it seems to have pushed them into post pics of the machine themselves.

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FB80 and GB5 bug

IMPORTANT: We don’t yet know if this is a one off glitch or common to all machines.
This is probably of interest to anyone who has competed or watched competitions since 2005.
In some competitions the La Marzoccos used were GB5 and FB80 AV machines – meaning they have a line of buttons linked to volumetric controls.  [...]

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Shop!

The shop is up and running! . SHOP!
The overseas delivery in Europe should all be right, any questions then let us know.

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Square Mile Coffee Roasters and this blog

So the time has come to clarify where this blog is going to go. Many businesses – cafes, roasteries and the like have blogs and I read most of them and enjoy them too. However this is not what jimseven is going to become. At some point in the future there may [...]

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Square Mile and Synesso in the UK

People have been asking so I thought I would clarify this.
We are indeed a distributor for Synesso espresso machines in the UK. I’ve been a fan of them for some time, both as a piece of machinery as well as a company. We’ve known for a while we wanted to use them within Square [...]

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5 Predictions for Coffee in 2008

Having looked back at 2007 I am going to go out on a limb and have a go at a few predications for coffee in 2008, though try and keep them fairly general.

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From Costa Rica until Christmas

This blog has been very quiet these last couple of weeks, the main reason being that I haven not! (Warning – long post to follow!)
So last time I posted it was about the evil Broca, which no one likes. The reason I had seen so much about them was that I had spent [...]

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The GS/3 Arrives

This isn’t going to be a machine review. There are plenty of those done in great detail on a variety of forums and blogs. Plus it only just arrived today!
This sort of thing makes me childishly pleased, and it was pretty easy to setup. The autofill takes care of most of it, [...]

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UKBC Coverage this year

Last year I did my best to give up to date coverage of the UK Barista Competition, competitors and their signature drinks because I was travelling to each one building stages and helping run the show.

This year I am afraid I can’t offer the same coverage.[...]

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News: I am leaving La Spaziale

Well, seeing as the press release went out on Friday it seems acceptable for me to post about it today.
After the Caffe Culture trade show at the end of May I will be leaving La Spaziale UK. I hope to spend some time travelling in North America, and finally getting to see and taste [...]

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