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#841
01-18-2021, 10:50 AM
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Love the Aeropress, especially for any traveling since they're pretty much indestructible. But I second the pour over for the amount of brew you end up with.
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#842
01-18-2021, 12:50 PM
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The Dayglow person told me to check out 9 Bar in Culver City in terms of local roasters. Hadn't heard of them and also haven't been yet. Enjoy.
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#844
01-19-2021, 11:22 AM
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I got the Flair Bottomless Portafilter + temperature sticker in the mail this morning.
It seems like I can make it work with my inexpensive grinder.. I am close to the maximum "fine" setting on my grinder, I only have about 3 clicks to go, but I got a decent shot with Crema (though maybe not as much as the PPF) out of my first attempt so it seems like I'm in business. Seems like the BPF really forces you to realize whether you're applying the correct amount of force and to get you to pre-infuse correctly. Pull down too hard before the coffee has infused and it will channel & spray. But even this first shot seemed to taste better than the pressurized portafilter. Hard to say, not as thick bodied feel, but the pressurized portafilter always seems to have both bitter & sour notes in it and the shot from the Bottomless one definitely didn't have that aspect, it seemed a more even extraction. Unfortunately I have all of 60g or so of coffee in the house.. can't spend time experimenting with it until more shows up in the mail, which is supposed to be tomorrow. The temp gauge sticker makes me think I need 3 pours of boiling water at least before pulling a shot. 3 pours got the metal heated to all of 175F. It is not easy to heat the head up at all. Still even with 3 it still seems faster than doing a V60 pour over. And the resulting shot with the 3 pours for pre-heat was hotter. It might be that I'm going to have to try experimenting with putting the head in a whole bowl of water off the boil. This is a very weird thing cause Flair's marketing guy tries to sell in youtube videos + forum posts that 1 pour for pre-heat is enough. Last edited by benb; 01-19-2021 at 11:25 AM.
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#845
01-19-2021, 12:05 PM
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From my experience, putting the entire PF body in a bowl/cup of boiling water is the easiest way to heat it to it's max temp. Bear in mind that even when you pour boiling water in several times, if the outside of the PF is not warm, there's still the potential for mass thermal loss. If the [i]entire[/] PF is submerged, that thermal loss is greatly minimized. Glad to hear your shot's are okay, you'll probably be able to get fine enough for something decent, but the real benefit of more expensive grinders is how many clicks are available to you for micro adjustments, or even, a stepless grinder with no clicks at all. My hand grinder (1ZPresso JX-Pro) has 120 clicks on it and I can honestly say sometimes 1 click makes all the difference between a bad shot and a fantastic shot.
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#846
01-19-2021, 12:08 PM
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I ended up being a total sucker and getting coffee from Blue Bottle yesterday as I was at Malibu Village... But, it was one of their limited Ethiopian 'Winter Blooms' and it's fantastic. The last three bags of filter I've had have all been Ethiopian with strong notes of Jasmine and it has once again reaffirmed that Ethiopian coffee is hands down my favourite filter. Though I did once have a very limited Kenyan AA that I still dream about from Artisan Roast in Edinburgh...
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#847
01-19-2021, 12:20 PM
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#848
01-19-2021, 01:44 PM
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I have not had one with Steel Burrs like the 1ZPresso. The ceramic burr ones I've had were super poor in terms of effort/time/ergonomics. I've had some bad wrist injuries (thanks bicycling) and so I'm sketched out by using a hand grinder frequently. Given some of the fancy hand grinders are ~$175-250 range I would be just as likely to keep using what I have now (OXO) and then go right to something in at least the $500-600 range that was electric. I tend to be cheap I guess.
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#849
01-19-2021, 02:26 PM
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I think it is absolutely fantastic. The burr's are just huge and it grinds very quickly and consistently. It's exceedingly well made and weighs a ton. I've said this before in this thread, or the manual espresso thread, I forget, so apologies if I am repeating myself, but it takes about 30-40 seconds to grind 18gr of espresso and around the same to grind 30gr of filter coffee. I think the trade off is thoroughly worth it. Even with hand grinding, I can have espresso in around 2-2 and a half minutes using the JX Pro and my Robot from start to finish, including boiling the kettle!
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#850
01-19-2021, 05:38 PM
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01-22-2021, 02:50 AM
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 Eater published a coffee shop guide not long ago: https://la.eater.com/maps/best-coffe...geles-espresso The only one I've been to is Sightglass. It's worthwhile. I haven't been doing as much exploring with ... what are we calling this now -- Safer at home. I keep meaning to do a morning donut run, too: https://la.eater.com/maps/best-donut...geles-delivery Last edited by tctyres; 01-22-2021 at 02:55 AM.
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01-22-2021, 06:14 PM
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Sightglass is right near my house and has been mobbed every time I've been by so while I've gotten a cup-to-go I haven't had a pourover. It's really hard to beat Dayglow + Verve--lots of places make really great coffee, but they always seem to be happy to talk about it there. There's a place called Rocketship in my neighborhood that's excellent and uses beans from a place called Good People that are phenomenal.
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