Posts Tagged ‘uber’

Brew temperature

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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This, shockingly enough, isn’t about espresso.  It is about brewed coffee, and the fact that brew temperature is completely wrecking my head.  We talk a lot about brew temperature but what we are really talking about is water delivery temperature.

I love my Uber boiler, I love the control and the delivery temp stability.  With this, however, has come the painful and embarrassing realisation that it doesn’t matter.  Alright, that is perhaps an overstatement – temperature has massive influence on the quality of the brew, that is undeniable.  I may love the control of the Uber, but having a consistent and controllable temperature really just shifts the problem from the exit spout to the vessel underneath.

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Introduction to the Uber

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Meant to cross post this on here after posting on SQM blog but forgot.  Notes I should now add:

1.  My initial offset opinion could be wrong, by about 0.5C closer to display. This doesn’t affect findings on stability or repeatability – it is just numbers.

2.  I will brew coffee in the next video.

3.  The video isn’t 13:20 long, it is about 7 minutes.  No idea why vimeo thinks differently!

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