After researching freezing beans in reasonable quick use quantities to preserve freshness, this what I’ve come up with. My vacuum sealer extract any excess moisture for freezing (slowing down gas loss) while removing air. Obviously there is a ton of negativity as well as positivity about this but would love my fellow home barista’s on the ground thoughts… please pursue being constructive 😬 but I welcome negative impressions.

To date I have found this successful reducing regular redialing for gas loss. But I’m still evaluating.

Always loved my Kingrinder flavor profile but it was god awful slow at grinding for espresso… gave up and just always made French press with it… got a new drill and went wait I think this fits!

I can grind my espresso’s now too haha. It’s a monster at grinding and the trigger is pressure sensitive so I can go slower or faster.

I’m so happy!

Pretty excited to finally have this setup together.

I started my espresso journey with a Breville Barista Pro and ended up pushing it pretty hard, including using it in my coffee trailer. It definitely had its limitations, but I learned a ton from that machine dialing in shots, troubleshooting, adjusting recipes, and learning how to get the most out of the equipment I had.

It isn't a commercial setup, and I don't consider the Profitec Drive to be a commercial machine either. But for where I'm at, the Drive is the next rung on the ladder and a pretty significant step up from the Barista Pro.

I'm excited to put everything together and see what I can do with it.

I only know how to make this shape right now, tried to do a rosetta but haven't got the hang of it yet. I'm really happy with the texture of the milk, that used to be a problem. Flavorwise it's okay but I'm guessing these beans aren't my favourite ones (light roast from Perú)

Hi all,

Hope this post is allowed

I started a subreddit dedicated to coffee roasted in Ireland 🇮🇪☕

Ireland has an incredible number of excellent independent coffee roasters, but I found there wasn't one dedicated place to discover and discuss them.

I've created r/Irish_Coffee_Roasters as a place to share Irish roasters, review beans, post espresso recipes, brewing setups and discover coffees from around the country.

I'm hoping it can become a useful community for anyone who enjoys supporting Irish coffee roasters. If you're interested, feel free to join and share what you're currently drinking.

I usually have 2 cups a day, but sometimes I get carried away and end up having 3–4 .Then I start wondering if my heart is gonna hate me for it… but somehow I still do it again the next day lol.So where do you draw the line?

1 cup, 2, 3, or 4+?

I recently wrote another post about how I completely disassembled, cleaned, and refurbished this 2011 Ascaso (featuring a 300ml brass boiler and a thermoblock for steam). I also carried out custom modifications, such as installing the well known steam wand from the Lelit Elizabeth (had to customize my own fitting and threading), custom lcd gauge, switches, leds, made the polished metal effect look like new, and built my own circuit board and code to measure and control temperature and pressure using configurable profiles. All told, the machine and parts cost me around €500. I snagged a Mahlkönig X54 used for a bargain price of about €270. Add in some extra equipment and beans, and the total comes to around €1,000 actually slightly less with the whole coffee machine project taking me about a month. Shots taste perfect, no temp surfing, perfect steamed milk in about 15-max20 seconds, way more powerful than I thought.

Just got my order from PERC delivered. First time trying their beans. Now just have to be patient to let them rest for the next two weeks. 🥲

I’m super excited to try the Young Producers for espresso milk drinks. The others will likely stay strictly for pour over, but I might try to dial in the decaf for espresso, too. We will see. 🙃

What PERC beans have you tried and what have been your ratios?

If you live in Denmark, Bean Machine in Esbjerg is the place to get your beans, i lived in this town all my life and, I'm beating myself for not nowing about this place sooner. They roasts beans every Monday, and if you don't have the pleasure of living close to their cafe , they ship to the entire country.

Ps: sorry i couldn't help myself taking a sip of my cortado before taking the picture 🤣

I’m working on the roaster at market lane coffee in Prahran and the barista’s always look after me here. I’m always impressed by the staff that work here tbh. I was asked today if I want the barista breakfast which is apparently a milk drink accompanied by another shot of espresso on the side, who would say no to that haha. What’s your ideal barista breakfast? Mine is flat white with an extra shot on the side

I usually stop at 2 because I start feeling like my brain is running on 200% 😂

But every now and then I'll have 3 or 4 and convince myself that tomorrow-me will deal with it.

Where's your limit?

1–2 cups?

3?

4+?

And does it depend on the coffee or how strong it is?

Coffee setup:
(Not all shown in the photo)
Gaggimate pro gaggia classic e24 with flow and pressure profiling and PID
Shardor 64mm with gorilla gear burrs for daily spro (trad shots mostly)
Femobook a2 for travel/home use
Next level Pulsar mini for travel dripper
1zpresso zp6 special
Cafec t90s papers
Plastic + ceramic v60
Bluetooth scales with connectivity to gaggimate
Ikape k2 pro 51mm portable espresso machine with ikape stand and paper filter for soup shots if I want them but I also do trad spro
Big bang IMs basket 58mm for soup shots
Also separately a 58-49mm step down for trad spro only
Foldable kettle to use with pulsar
Gooseneck kettle for home v60s
Blind shaker

The encore I’m selling

Saw a reel combining my two favorite drinks, so I had to make it.

Typical Negroni, 1 oz of Campari, gin and sweet vermouth, and a double shot of espresso. Then stir with ice, and used a milk frother to foam it up. Strain and pour over a large ice block and I scooped some foam onto the cocktail. It’s delicious, will definitely be making more of these

After five years of using a Gaggia, I finally pulled the trigger on a (used) Londinium R24. Oh. My. Goodness, I love this thing:

• It wakes up before me in the morning, so by the time I'm out of bed it's already warmed up and ready to go (and I don't have to temp surf either).
• The shots this thing pulls are incredible! Even when not fully dialed on, this thing pulls amazing shots, and it'a quite forgiving too. I used to not enjoy straight espresso, but I'm starting to re-evaluate that choice!
• The hx design means that as soon as I let go of the lever I can start steaming milk - and it has great steam pressure too!

In short, I'm super impressed and happy with the R24. The only downside is needing to use a catch cup since I can't stop the shot early, but that's an insignificant downside to an otherwise perfect machine.

Took advantage of the Labor Day sale and got the white Eureka 65 zero AP for what felt like a steal.

I have been very happy with my shardor 64 for the coffee it makes, but it was loud,slow, and messy.

The shardor was running like 85db from my phone app at ear level. Now running like 71db when grinding.

Hoping the chute adapter helps keep the area clean.

What a beauty, and surprisingly quiet. Slower than my previous machine but that doesn’t bother me. I’m mostly grinding for espresso so like the precision/control I get with it.

Hello, friends. I am a couple of months into making espresso at home. I learned how to dial in my shots and learned how to make them more/less sour and bitter by playing with timing and such. The issue im having is that i feel like my shots are very inconsistent even tho i use the scale and do not touch my grinder after the dial in process. I think a big part of it the way i tamp the puck. I used to do 2 pushes with the tamper i attached. Then i realized that the tamper might not be fully pressing the coffee down so I started using this self leveling tamp followed by the tamp that came in the box with the espresso machine to press it all the way down. Anyways, my shots always come out different with different yields and different times. I have Bambino Plus and DF54. Please help! Thank you in advance

This just hit my email today. Only available in Germany and Denmark with limited distribution for now. I'm considering pairing this with me E64. I have an Elizabeth and this would be a step-up workflow and aesthetic wise. Not priced yet though.

What I still don't understand is how they get around - in this brew, weight, adjust, brew, weight, adjust closed loop system - the recommendation to purge three seconds of grinds to ensure grind size uniformity in the next shot. Seems like it would always be chasing a properly purged shot. Unless the algo adjusts for retention, and retention does not result in channeling.

Xenia Brew-by-Sync Home Espresso Machine | Mahlkönig USA

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Mahlkönig Xenia Brew-By-Sync | Our first home espresso machine (video)

anyone try it? I like Chris Coffee Black Pearl a lot, and Lacolombe Nizza, and Redbird. I just ordered some Larrys. I have a Vetrano and Niche Zero. Usually 16gm shots.

Tried to record a video my grinder died. Had issues with the VS3 since purchased, and had it replaced once already, but now I'm out of warranty I can't get support without paying more than it's worth and would need to resolder it myself.

I've been looking at the Timemore 078s as a replacement / upgrade for ~£650 but I'm not too up to date with the current generation of grinders (or anything newer than the VS3 Gen 2 tbh) so any suggestions are appreciated.

I drink a lot medium-light roasts, I really like SL28's. Usually espresso for myself, but often make flat whites and latte's for guests.

So I bought a new grinder earlier this year (the Tuni G3 flat burr from Amazon). This decision came after pretty much always using the finest grind setting on my previous grinder regardless of the coffee I was using. The Tuni has such a wide range of stepless settings and I figured changing from light to medium to dark roasts would result in such a wide range of settings. Instead, I pretty much stick between 5 and 8.

This has gotten me wondering if I'm still doing something wrong somewhere. So my question to you all: How much do you actually adjust your grind setting? Are your changes actually only a size or two, or do you have a much wider range when dialing in and achieving your appropriate setting?

I'm hoping to get a bambino (regular) and a grinder to go with it. I mostly drink ice latte. my budget is around 200-300 right now. I have already done some searches in this sub, but still wanted to ask if there are any recs, especially during the current labor day sale?

Hey everyone, looking for advice on choosing a single grinder for a two-person household using an unmodded Gaggia Classic Pro. We are both novices and have never used a proper grinder.

Our Use Case:

• Me: Lattes/flat white.
• Wife: Pour-over.
• Key requirement: Daily switching back and forth (espresso ↔ pour-over) without losing dial settings, jammed burrs, or heavy retention contamination.

I’m currently choosing between these four options (in the US):

1. MiiCoffee DF54 – ~$230
2. Turin DF64 Gen 2 – ~$360
3. Option-O Lagom Mini 2 – $379 + shipping $64
4. Option-O Lagom Casa – $526 + shipping $64

For anyone who switches between espresso and filter daily, is the stretch from the DF54 up to the DF64 Gen 2 or the Option-O models (Mini 2 or Casa) worth the money for workflow, dial repeatability, and quality? Thanks!