Coffee Gear and Equipment

Refresher: Preventative Maintenance

As many of your are off work this week, we thought we’d take the opportunity to give you some reading material ”save it for later if you want. No matter how experienced you are, or […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Backflushing Refresher Course!

I got an email from a barista last night who was having trouble some issues with backflushing: I have a 5 group head La Marzocco and I daily backflush with water and detergent. I now […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Holiday Gift Idea: Cafe Maps!

We’re just days away from the release of the December+January issue of Barista Magazine, which includes our annual gift guide called Best Bar Tools, in which working baristas and coffee professionals recommend the tools they […]

Cafés

The Barista as John Henry

The alternate title for this post could be “Welcome our Robot Overlords” or perhaps, “Resistance is Futile.” The robots are coming after all, just like the steam-powered shovel came for John Henry. In the end […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Tamp Road Trip!

Prima Coffee‘s Prima Tamp is really awesome and unique: its adjustable angle allows the barista a more ergonomic option for putting that pressure on the coffee in the portafilter. The coffee nerds who made the […]

Coffee Gear and Equipment

Time Traveling with Unic

When the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) announced that its annual conference for 2013 would be held in Nice, France, the staff from Unic espresso machines jumped for joy. Why? Because unlike its competition […]