Espresso With Aeropress Filter Papers

Espresso With Aeropress Filter Papers

Above and below the coffee bed This week, Scott Rao made espresso with filter papers above and below the coffee bed yielding over 25%. What’s he playing at? If you follow Scott Rao’s series of daily coffee tips on Instagram, you’ll have seen one recent post...
What Difference Will It Make to an Espresso

What Difference Will It Make to an Espresso

If I raise the temperature of my machine by one degree? Decades of trial and error have shown that most people prefer espresso extracted between 85-95°C (A Illy and R Viana, 1995). For lighter roasted, special coffee, the range typically used is rather narrower...
Celebrity Deathmatch: Forchheimer vs Darcy

Celebrity Deathmatch: Forchheimer vs Darcy

A science professor told BH that with espresso, “in technical terms you have Forchheimer flows instead of good old Darcy flows”. What’s that? Keen readers of this series will remember Darcy’s Law from our discussion of bed depth in espresso. Darcy’s Law is an equation...

Can You Please Summarise Cafe Imports’ Water Activity Paper   In our bi-weekly poll on the BH Facebook-group you asked us, “Can you please summarise this impressive research paper”, which is based on a huge amount of cupping and data logging by...