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Since moving to my new place, I have had much less space for coffee stuff because our new condo is a small one and we also have much more other non-coffee stuff.  I really have to convince my wife really...

I have been pulling this espresso since Monday of this week and I have not been disappointed even when the shots didn't go exactly right. /files/imagecache/image_230/files/espressonuevo.jpg" align="left" width="230" height="230" />What had drawn me to this espresso was the fact that...

Hot chocolate – espresso style.  With the colder weather my kids have turned their attention to the joys of hot chocolate.  I remember the discovery when I was a kid of how much better it was if you made hot...

First, no I do not have this piece of espresso gadgetry, however it was pretty interesting and thought that I would share it with you all. As you can see from the photo below, the Attento is a thermometer for steaming milk....

This morning, I was very excited to wake up because I know that today, I will have the ability to make myself quality coffee. The coffee I'm excited to be drinking today is the Malawi Mapanga AAA roasted to a...

What I am drinking now – Velton’s Twilight blend.  I was looking for a good dark roast for my wife as I often am.  She likes dark roasts and I like them fine although my favorite roasts tend to be...

  In the past  I have posted about the Vietnamese coffee filter called Phin on Roaste, here http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/Phin-my-cheapest-brewing-device and here http://www.roaste.com/CoffeeBlogs/sontondaman/making-drip-coffee-Vietnamese-phin.  I also took some video a while back but have not been able to have time to edit the video. Now...

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...

Remember Haitian coffee? Remember low coffee prices? If you remember one, you probably can remember both. They are related. In the day when coffee was cheap (and certainly not as good), Haiti’s coffee was one of the most famous, as...

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...

When you think of a coffee plantation in India, do you think of a farm with its resident owner overseeing resident workers, operating within a fairly simple management plan? News from Financial Express paints a somewhat more complicated picture about...

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...