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A Secret Coffee Club: Discovering "Toast" by Charles Stross
Log cabin coffee cornerKnowing about the small collection of coffee equipment that I take along when I'm traveling, Martin Schröder (pictured in a red coat in a previous conference) pointed me to a...
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May 4 2015 -- The Jacques Blitz Fountain Pen
One of the things that made me stop collecting fountain pens and give most of them away was the realization that a pen joining a collection loses its individual story. It becomes part of a row, or many...
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L1-P is in the making
First image of the L1-P by LondiniumReiss Gunson of LONDINIUM Espresso is about to launch L1-P, a new professional one group lever espresso machine. 7 Liter boiler, 2700W heating element. Plumbed in,...
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Line pressure gauge, needle valve & flow regulator
Line in, pressure regulator & gauge, flow regulator, two connections for espresso machineryJohn, a fellow coffee roaster living nearby, has built me a nice oak wood panel with some extensions to my...
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Hey look! A new LONDINIUM! The L1-P
DHL delivery (pls do not crosspost this one photo, he does not what to be on "social media")Ready for lift offJan & John came to help install it allTaking the coat offThe brew group...
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CT1 espresso machine by Wouter Strietman
Today, Wouter Strietman visited to see my LONDINIUM L1-P and he also showed me his progress in designing a standalone version of his espresso machine:
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The new Compak R120: a Gentle Giant in Coffee Grinds
(By Frans Goddijn and Jan van der Weel)This week, after a three months delivery time, we picked up the Compak R120, a tall (77.5cm) heavy (37kg) new grinder. Jan van der Weel helping with...
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Getting the new anti-vac on my old La Pavoni
Most La Pavoni home levers have the pressure relief valve but no anti-vac so at startup you need to release some steam to get up to the correct temperature and after turning it off the lever is...
View ArticleWall mounted espresso grinder made from scrap parts
Peter van der Weerd from www.kafko.nl tells me how he got an old broken fully automatic "egro" espresso machine. He took it apart , set aside the rotation pump for later use and built his own wall...
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The Instant Nespresso Experiment
Text: Jan van der Weel Pictures: Frans GoddijnJames Hoffmann recently wrote a very interesting article about Nespresso. One of his findings was the extreme high extraction yield of Nespresso. Nespresso...
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A visitor from Costa Rica
From Hungary, Laczkó Gábor emailed me last night to tell me there is a young coffee farmer currently in Amsterdam and he suggested we meet, so we did!On her way to a swimming competition in Alkmaar,...
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KdW Speedster with "Lever Style" hand pump pressure
A year ago I wrote a blog about Jip van Neerven, who was working on a modification of a Kees van der Westen Speedster espresso machine for his graduation project.Jip van Neerven and modified...
View ArticleEspresso on vacation
We went to stay in a little house in the woods near Oostvoorne for a few days so I had to leave my Londinium L1-P espresso machine and the huge Compak R120 grinder behind.Luckily I have a small set of...
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Tije's La Pavoni funnel
Tije made a nice little funnel for the pre-millennium La Pavoni lever machine. It has a thin sharp lip that exactly fits the filter basket so during the stirring of the ground coffee beans, I expect no...
View ArticleTrying out a fluid bed coffee roaster concept
Tije is trying out some concepts for a fluid bed coffee roaster. A variac is regulating the power for the blower and in the pipe between blower and beans there's a heating element out of a paint...
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Acaia 'Lunar' Scale for Coffee
[A separate blog entry about "zero tracking" on the Acaia is here]Acaias Pearl and Lunar next to each other A first glance at my new scale. I knew from pictures on the web that it was going to be a...
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