Posted by TheShot on 02 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: CoffeeRatings.com, Home Brew, Quality Issues
Last month I mentioned an article on David Lebovitz’s site regarding his recent training at Illy’s Università del caffè in Trieste, Italy. David is a professionally trained pastry chef and writer, and recently he’s taken up a bit of an obsession with quality home espresso production. (Sound familiar?)
Today his site features an article and “Top [...]
Posted by TheShot on 20 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine
Consumer Reports published a home buyer’s guide to espresso makers this month: ConsumerReports.org - Buyer’s guide to espresso makers 3/07. As with a lot of things in Consumer Reports, they often lack sufficient knowledge or background to offer educated opinions beyond winging it with what’s on the surface. (Well, beyond that and Consumers Union’s usual [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 03 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine, Roasting
Today’s Edmonton Journal published a primer on the more sophisticated home espresso setup: Getting Serious About Coffee. In other words, what do you do when your $100 home Krups machine isn’t cutting it — because the espresso it produces belongs in the same landfill where your machine will deservedly rot its final days?
There’s an avalanche [...]
Posted by TheShot on 20 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
A couple days ago, CoffeeGeek.com announced their 2006 Editors’ Choice awards for espresso: CoffeeGeek - Editor’s Choice Awards 2006 - Espresso. Award categories include espresso machines in different price ranges, coffee grinders, bean blends, and espresso-making accessories.
If you still need holiday gifts for that special coffee mutant in your life, get your credit card ready. [...]
Posted by TheShot on 21 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee
A friend and CoffeeRatings.com reader, Jeremy Nisen, occasionally writes for SFist — which many rightfully recognize as San Francisco’s best local blog. (Jeremy interviewed me for it earlier this year.) Yesterday he pointed me to his most recent article on the site: SFist: Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use?.
In it, Jeremy [...]
Posted by TheShot on 24 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine, Quality Issues, Roasting
Canadian Business magazine recently reposted a 2001 article on the deep and seemingly bottomless pit of home espresso perfectionism (something I can identify with all too well): A cuppa perfection | After Hours | Gotta Have It | Canadian Business Online. The article is even more accurate today than it was when first published.
It all [...]
Posted by TheShot on 29 May 2006 | Tagged as: Machine
An article in yesterday’s ThePilot of the North Carolina Sandhills tells the story of how a Victoria Arduino espresso machine made its way from Torino, Italy to Incredible Edibles of Pinehurst, NC — placing the coffee shop on the noteworthy American espresso map: Dolce Vita Right Here at Home - The Pilot Newspaper - Local [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 08 May 2006 | Tagged as: Home Brew, Machine
The May Kiplinger’s Personal Finance includes an article on how to get coffeehouse-quality brew at home: 5 Things to Ask About Espresso Makers.
As that cranky espresso guru, David Schomer of Espresso Vivace, has said for years, most machines built for the home cannot build up enough pressure or control the temperature well enough to make [...]
Posted by TheShot on 15 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
It took a moment for me to dig up an online version, but here it is. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the March 2006 issue of Food & Wine Magazine has a special report on coffee: An Obsessive’s Guide to Coffee | Food & Wine.
The editors apparently “spent 410 man-hours tasting 157 coffees and [...]
Posted by TheShot on 19 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Home Brew, Machine
In today’s New York Times, Michelle Slatalla writes a first-hand account of how she was ready to buy another espresso machine for her home: Establishing Some Ground Rules.
She encountered confusing options and poor machine choices at the usual suspects. Echoing how many of America’s best restaurants are generally ignorant when it comes to good espresso, [...]