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This whole week,  I have been super busy with the process of moving from a rented basement to a condo that I recently closed. All of my coffee gears including several of my espresso machines, grinders and various accessories were...

Some of you may have already seen this on Coffeegeek forum, that there was a Crossland CC1 road test organized and was just started not too long ago.This road test is a voluntary review of the machine, with no benefits...

I got a lot of nice accessories for coffee making over the holidays and one of those items that I was least expecting was this Airscape Coffee Canister. This was a very welcomed surprise because I had just been leaving...

It looks like 2012 will be an important year.   We just wanted to wish everyone a prosperous and healthy year.    There are a lot of people hurting right now, and we should all go out of our way...

I don't know if the new Scanomat Top Brewer makes good coffee -- and I'm not likely to find out anytime soon, but I can tell you that it makes great video. The music and images in this publicity release...

When it rains it pours – well, okay when it steams it pour-overs.   I posted a while back about if large boilers risked stale water and if double boilers in particular are likely to have stale water in the...

Having fun with an Elektra T1.   I just got a new machine thanks to Roaste.com just in time for Christmas.  This is especially convenient since my family was coming to visit, so there was lots of coffee to make....

There are some things that once you get them you cannot live without them. One of those things for me was about a year and half ago when I got an electric kettle. Prior to that I was using a...

I am not totally sure on the merits of the tamper outside of doing the basics, compacting the coffee evenly and reasonably fitting inside of your basket. After it does that not sure if anything more than that especially in...

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I hope everyone had a good holiday, and one of the nice things about the holidays is getting that gift that you didn't think you didn't think you were going to get. While I didn't get an Elektra T1 espresso...

http://foter.com/img/photo/6/brushing-the-ladyfingers-with-coffee-mixture_l.jpg" class="foter-photo" style="display: block; width: 100%" /> Photo Credit: VancityAllie /FoterVancity Allie's Recipe My mom's been making this scrumptious ricotta torte for holidays ever since I was a kid. She's made little adjustments to it over the years, and every...

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The T1 is here.  It is here!  The truck driver called me up and chatted about if the truck the machine was on would fit in my neighborhood’s puny streets – we decided it would not.   I met them...

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I've been drinking on of the component coffees of some of our roasts.  It's a Yirgachefe from Ethiopia.  It's a really nice coffee with a really full rich taste.  However, it's difficult now to identify provenence for them.  They use...

Over the past few weeks I have been making my way through a few bags of dark roasts between D'Arte's Natalazia, Velton's Twilight Blend and Mr Espresso Organic Neopolitan. I have been picking these because I have been getting coffees...

A few days ago I was able to pick up a few things from espressoparts.com that I have been wanting for a while, among those items were two portafilter baskets from their HQ line, a 14 G Ridged and Ridgeless....

Today, I went to a new coffee spot in town.  Actually, it was a new branch of an already established chain here in Baltimore.  They don't necessarily specialize in coffee, although they do employ Counter Culture-trained baristas.  One of these...