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Xmas at Maasvlakte
The lights at Maasvlakte industries looked a lot like Xmas tree decorations this Christmas day!
View ArticleWBC champion Gwilym Davies: "After I won I realized how little I knew"
Below is an interview from the European Coffee Trip team with World Barista Champion Gwilym Davies. Very nice to watch, inspiring. At about 25 minutes he tellshow he started using a lever machine and...
View ArticlePressure profiling on the Rocket Giotto
Peter van der Weerd of www.kafko.nl added a dual opv feature to my espresso machine a while back.I used to have it on 4 & 9 bar but after reading about the upcoming new LONDINIUM L1-P which will...
View ArticleCoffee roasting on the Roastilino -- full length video
Two camera's: one iPhone 6 plus on the Roastilino & PXG4, one Canon 5D III on the Artisan roasting program screen.When I just started off with roasting I was looking high and low for a video like...
View ArticleGrinding Coffee in the Winter Sun / Zij Malen De Koffie
English version:As I grind coffee for my first espresso of the day I notice how the low winter sun (which has just climbed over the roof tops of the houses on the other side of the Kostverlorenvaart...
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Measure the Moisture, Glean the Bean
Hey look, a parcel arrived!After finding your optimal roast profile for a certain coffee bean, you run out of that specific bean and you take the next bag of a different origin of one that's supposed...
View ArticleDanny O'Neill about Starting a Coffee Roasting Company
I just watched these four segments of a brilliant talk by Danny O'Neill, founder of his own highly successful coffee roasting company in Kansas City. Had never heard of him before.He needs a few...
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Measure the Moisture [part 2]
(See also Part 1)On the Wile65 moisture analyzer you can adjust the readings if you find that the results are consistently higher or lower than a reference device.The two barista's that I know who have...
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Measure the Moisture [Part 3]
(Part 2 is here:http://kostverlorenvaart.blogspot.nl/2015/01/measure-moisture-part-2.html)The oven is a very time consuming method but it seems better than using the air roaster.I loaded 200g of the...
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Tije's zinc compound fix for rusty La Pavoni drip trays
This morning, Tije replaced a p-stat on one of my La Pavoni's and he also treated the rust on the inside of the La Pavoni drip tray.Using a dremel he first cleared the existing rust and then he rubbed...
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Second Fuji PXG-4 temperature controller
Early last year I built a roast controller for my Fracino Roastilino home coffee roaster. It reads the temperature from a probe in the roasting chamber and it sends a start-stop signal to the Solid...
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Wiring the La Pavoni for the Fuji PXG-4 controller
To safely connect the SSR output of the new Fuji PXG-4 controller to the heating element of the La Pavoni, I drilled a hole in the side of the foot of the little espresso machine. A flexible cable...
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Time to PID a Pavoni
Several models of espresso machines have a PID on board these days. As far as I know, all of these are used as mere thermostats, making sure the boiler (and sometimes a second boiler) is kept at the...
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Plotting the Pavoni Pulse
In the previous post I described how a Fuji PXG4 can control the La Pavoni Pro lever machine.Today I added two extra probes to the free Artisan software so I could simultaneously monitor the...
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La Pavoni Brew Group Temp Control
In the previous post I had a PID made by Fuji, their PXG4, control the temperature in the bottom of the boiler of the La Pavoni.Since I had figured out by measurements and tasting that the extraction...
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La Pavoni: Fuji PXG4 PID and Pressostat Working Together
In my previous post I showed how the boiler of the machine almost gets too hot and pressurized when warming up with the PID temperature probe connected to the Brew Head.I decided it would be best if I...
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Finished Pavoni & Fuji PXG4 pid: Probe Inside the Ring
At the end of the previous blog about the pressostat and PID working together, I mentioned that I would like to clean up the xmas tree of wires and have as few cables and probes as possible to visually...
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Coffee preparation in Bad Kohlgrub
When making a short trip it's especially enjoyable to take the time to prepare a nice cup of coffee because it's often those simple pleasures that enhance a day the most.
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Mount Hörnle: hike up, cable down
After I had a few espressos the sun seemed to temporarily break through the mist so I stepped into my hiking boots and followed a track which I'd planned in the little Oregon 600 gps from Garmin.The...
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