How To Tamp Coffee – Barista Tips

1 – Make sure you start with good, fresh coffee beans!
2 – Grind 7 grams of coffee, 14 grams for a double, into your group handle and give the handle a light shake to even the ground coffee out.
3 – With a slightly curled finger spread the grounds out, they should be level with the [...]

Masteroast Caffe In A Box Install

The latest of our Caffe In A Box installs was completed this week at Masteroast Coffee Roasters, Peterborough.
In a slight departure from our normal Coffee Shop style builds, Masteroast required a new training room to use for customer training and coffee tasting.
The centre piece of this training room was a custom built one piece, trough [...]

A coffee a day

US scientists claim that drinking five cups of coffee a day, could reverse memory problems like those associated with Alzheimer’s.
The study in Florida, which was tested on mice, also suggested that caffeine hampered the production of the protein plaques which are the hallmark of the disease.
55 mice were used for the study, each one specially [...]

Espresso Machine Troubleshooting – Barista Tips

NB: This guide is reproduced with kind permission of Brasilia, renowned manufacturer of espresso machines.
Although the problems and solutions provided relate 100% to Brasilia machines, most are also relevant to all other brands of traditional espresso machine.