godshots

With my machine on the fritz, the past two months have been tough. Luckily, Kiyoshi was nice enough to lend me his Europiccola! So it looks like I’ll be pulling Fellini shots for a while… And that’s cool!

A detailed overview of coffee for the newb. Many of the basics are explained in a graphical and easy to understand manner. The mechanics of caffeinne acting on the brain are particularly funny!.

The oatmeal

History of Coffee Chart

Originally uploaded by sweetmarias

A tree diagram of the history of coffee…

James Hoffmann over at Jim Seven posts a simple video explaining some new thinking about crema and it’s effect on espresso flavour. It immediately made me want to stay home all day and try out all the different ideas put forth in the video.

Although Jim stated that he wasn’t going to take these videos too seriously, it would be awesome to see this turn into a steady series. His personality seems to jive well with the camera, and he obviously has alot of coffee knowledge to share with the internets.

If you ever wanted to know the exact constitution of any espresso based drink, here is your one stop diagram!

via twoeyes on flickr.

see also here for source files for printing and whatnot.

Coffee in spain is enjoyed in a couple of different ways. This picture explains the different ways coffee is to be ordered here. Milk is implied in the order, and is served hot on the table similar to the way it is served in Veracruz.

I guess i haven’t posted about my new coffee machine since I got it in september at the coffee expo. I have been using it as my main machine since it was delivered a couple of weeks later.

I’m still struggling with getting great shots on a consistent basis. But I can regularly pull off good tasty shots now and an occassional awesome one.

All in all it’s a good buy, and worlds apart from the europiccola. I had to relearn practically all my technique. And I’m still working out kinks in the system.

What has had the most impact on the saturday reunions is the speed with which I can serve up shots one after the other.

Anyways, loads of fun!

kenya, rwanda, panama and heartbreaker

alas… all gone now

Finally! It was about time too! Here are some pics from Saturday.

Zulu and me.

Sabina.

This week there was no get-together. Yoshi left the city on a mini-break. I just realized that it has been about a year and a half since we started this blog. It has been great. I have learned a lot about coffee, and I have had some very real epiphanies along the way. Not all of them about coffee, either. Anyway, this weekend wasn’t great. Let’s hope that the next one is better. At least we’ll have the weekly coffee-drinking gathering for sure.