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Technivorm KBT741 reviewed Print E-mail
Written by colin newell   
Sunday, 11 March 2007
Here at the CoffeeCrew website (and Labs) it's pretty obvious that we are gear junkies. And what I mean by that is - we have so much stuff that it's difficult to get around to test everything in a timely fashion. That said, after doing a major housecleaning we are down to the bare bones in the home lab. In fact, I no longer own an espresso machine if you can believe that. Well, believe it.

I have every imaginable coffee brewer. Everything. Nothing left out. Nothing wanting...

Okay. Maybe there is one thing. The perfect coffee brewer - at least, the perfect drip coffee brewer. At home... in my modest little test kitchen.

Several years ago, while perusing the SCAA website (may have also been one of the trade journals...) I noted that there is only 2 brewers totally approved by the SCAA. Two. That is it. Now that might have changed but I am going to assume that it has not. Hence this article!

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Bellman Cappuccino Maker reviewed Print E-mail
Written by David Reimer   
Tuesday, 27 February 2007

A unit that was issued to me in fall 2006, I am finally getting around to writing the much-needed short take on the Bellman stovetop espresso maker. Although I have been distracted with other extravagent grinders and espresso machines from the CoffeeCrew.com team, this small unit does need recognition.

 
Homeroasting Chapter 3 Print E-mail
Written by colin newell   
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Home Roasting Chapter 3 - the absolute basics of home coffee roasting

Walking around a coffee plantation, in the Fall of 1996, helped me connect the dots in my lifelong fascination with the coffee bean. There was something significantly more real and palpable about the coffee plant - running my hands across the waxy green leaves and looking at the berries in various shades of green and red. I spent the good part of an afternoon exploring a processing plant where the red cherries are stripped of their fruit and laid out to dry. Further drying and milling removes a remaining silverskin putting the precious beans that much closer to their inevitable date with a coffee roaster somewhere.
And even though a lot more goes into the cultivation, tending, production and harvest of the delicate berries, this one day of activity for me brought a sense of the Gestalt or global personal understanding of what coffee means to me.

Roasting coffee for the first time (and every time after that) had a similar emotional impact. Roasting 3/4 of my body weight in 4 hours, one afternoon, gave me a collective grasp of the Zen of coffee-roasting. Truth is, when you are roasting coffee (in any quantity -- ounces or pounds) it is You and the beans. Nothing else matters. Nothing else should interfere with your focus.
 
Homeroasting Chapter 2 Print E-mail
Written by colin newell   
Monday, 05 February 2007
Home Coffee Roasting Chapter 2 - The Bean basics - 
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I have been roasting coffee, on and off, for over 10 years. More off than on lately I must admit.

I am not entirely sure what happened to my enthusiasm for roasting very small quantities of the little green bean.

I think roasting my weight in green coffee, one afternoon, at Every Day Gourmet Coffee Roastery may have had something to do with it. At least a small part anyway.
 
Homeroasting Chapter 1 Print E-mail
Written by Glenn S.   
Sunday, 04 February 2007
The controversy about homeroasting (part-one)– by glenns 

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Glenn takes a look at the home roasting controversy.

Photo at left: Glenn's little homeroasting set-up draws little or no attention...

After some years experimenting with air and drum home roasters, he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that home roasting still has a long way to go.
You tell your best friend that his homemade coffee tastes like shoe polish remover and is the worst thing you ever tasted in your life.
Your former friend naturally, would have no choice but to kill you immediately.
In reading an older Sweet Maria’s newsletter, Tom says that even though he is the business of selling home roasting appliances, that all of them more or less, have design flaws, have short lifetimes are overpriced for what they are and in a general sense, all of them – are disappointing.
 
Buying Coffee Gear - Part One Print E-mail
Written by Adam Tindale   
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
In the first of a continuing series, Adam Tindale examines the bare bones of home espresso and coffee kit. 
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A common question we get at coffeecrew is "How can I have great coffee at home for X$?" Here is my attempt at a generic answer. Often the amount is 200$. Let's start there. Here at the coffeecrew website, we have been screaming from the rafters for years about the most important part of your home coffee rig. The path to coffee nirvana is your grinder. I said it and I will say it again; Invest in a good grinder. Do not buy a blade grinder, commonly known as a spice grinder.
 
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