Coffee

This is my index for all coffee related stuff.

I'm mainly interested in lever espresso machines.

Coffee Machines

+ Expresso coffee machines 101 - the components

+ How do coffee expresso machines work ?

+ Vintage Coffee Machine - Rancilio

+ Expresso machines 101 - boilers

+ Coffee Group-heads

+ coffee machines - pumps

+ Classic coffee machines

+ Coffee machine manufacturers

+ Common Espresso machine port sizes (G vs M), tubes...

+ PID temperature controllers for coffee

+ Arrarex - Caravel, VAM - Lever Espresso Machine

+ Rancilio Silvia - history

+ Elektra MicroCasa Leva - brewing notes

+ Gaggia Classic - unmodded start brew notes - dialing in coffee

+ Gaggia Classic - list of models - 1991 - 2024

+ Gaggia Classic Evo Pro - Modding with arduino - Gaggiuino

   Part 1 Gaggiuino Build Log with Workflow intro

   Part 2 Gaggiuino V3 - Build Log Notes - switches, PCB

   Part 3 Gaggiunio mod - The original Classic Pro - How it works

   Part 4 Gaggiuino - boot first time 

   Part 5 Gaggiuino - wiring

   Part 6 Gaggiuino boiler & pump removal & first tests

+ La Pavoni Europiccola notes

+ La Pavoni OPV and pressure stat maintenance

+ Faema Faemina 1964

+ Faema Faema vintage 1964 - safety assembly valve

Coffee Profiles and Recipes

+ Coffee Profiling 101 - Temp, Pressure & flow.

+ Espresso Recipes - basic

+ Flow Profiling recipes

+ 80C dark roast espresso profile - 80s profile

+ Londinium profile - good for dark roast beans

+ Cremina lever profile (for darkly roasted beans)

+ Classic Italian espresso profile.

+ Spring lever pressure profile.

+ Best overall Profile - for dark roasted espresso

+ E61 profile for dark roast beans

+ The Slayer shot profile.

+ Gentle and Sweet espresso profile - good for light roast beans

+ Blooming espresso profile - light roast

+ Adaptive profile --- pressure vs flow - light roast

+ Rao Allonge / Sprover profile - coffee shots - light roast

+ Pour over coffee intro

+ V60 recipe

Coffee Grinders

+ Flat vs conical burrs in coffee grinders

    Electric

+ DF 64V grinder (gen 1)

+ Mahlkönig X54 grinder

+ Varia VS3 Gen 2 grinder

   Hand

+ Timemore C3 ESP grinder

+ Fiorenzato-Pietro hand grinder

+ Craig Lyn - Weber Workshops HG-1 grinder

+ R50 hand grinder - 34.5mm conical burr hand grinder

+ 1ZPresso Q2 (international version) Heptagonal burr handgrinder

+ Kinu M47 Phoenix coffee grinder

+ 1Zpresso ZP6 grinder

+ CafeSing GRIZZ-63

General Coffee info

+ Altitude - Coffee growing and Altitude

+ Coffee bean species, varieties & types

+ Sweetness in Single origin Coffees

+ Single origin vs Blends

+ Coffee varieties that a potentially good for Italian Espresso..

+ Coffee varieties that are good for espresso

+ Coffee bean grading systems

+ coffee bean processing

+ Co-fermented coffee

+ Steaming Milk

+ Dialing in Coffee  - Dose, ratio, Grind size & Time

+ certified italian espresso and cappuccino

+ Coffee Types - Italian lessons

+ is a darker roast bean better for milk based coffee?

+ water for coffee.

+ Training your palate

+ Top cities for coffee -2025

+ The world's top 10 coffee shops 2025

+ Cortados/Gibraltar's/Piccolos - Glass sizes

Roasting beans

+ Estimating roast level from water loss

+ The phases of coffee roasting

+ General guide - Temperature and Time profile.

+ Roasting using a single temp probe (& sight,sound, smell)

+ Roasting for espresso

+ Exhaust temp vs bean temp of roasters

+ Roast 1 - Hand drum roaster - Uganda - Mt Elon Bugisu -Arabica medium/dark roast

+ Roast 2 - Hand Drum Roaster Costa Rica -  Hermosa Tarrazu Arabica - medium roast

+ Roast 3 - kitchen Drum Roaster. Colombian Arabica. light roast..

+ Roast 4 - Kitchen Drum roaster - PNG Arabica - light roast

+ Roast 5 - Kitchen drum roaster - PNG Arabica - medium/dark roast

+ Roast 6 - Behmor Coffee Roaster - PNG Arabica Simbu

+ Roast 7 - Behmor P1 & P2 test - Costa Rica - DOTA Tarrazu Hermosa Arabica...

+ Roast 7a - Behmor P2  dark medium arabica - Brazil Cerrado

+ Roast 7b - Behmor roaster P3 test - Vietnamese Robusta

+ Roast 7c - Behmor Manual roast - medium - Brazil Santos and Colombian Excelso

+ Roast 8 - Cafe Masy Fluid bed (air roaster) - JMS-210 - Costa Rica & Uganda

+ Coffee growing regions:

    - Australia

    - Brazilian coffee

    - Colombian coffee

    - Costa Rica

    - Ethiopia

    - Ethiopian Sidamo + Guji

    - Guatemala

    - Honduras

    - India

    - Indonesia - general

       - Sumatra (Indonesia)

    - Japan

    - Kenya

    - Malaysia

    - Mexico

    - Papua New Guinea (PNG)

    - Peru

    - Thailand

    - Timor Leste

    - Uganda

    - Vietnam

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Useful links

+ World Coffee research

+ The world Atlas of coffee - James Hoffman