Thank you Shaun. I will follow your coaching. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm off to BB!
Audrey On Jul 29, 6:41 pm, "Shaun Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are in the Bay area (I'm guessing you meant San Francisco) go > purchase a high quality roasted product, something like a 1lb bag of Blue > Bottle Coffee's espresso blend; confirm the roast date, ask the barista the > recommended dose weight, temp and volume. Go home, replicate the recommended > settings and start pulling shots. As you pull, adjust your grind until you > are getting the correct volume approx and then kill the shot at early signs > of blonding. > > The BII doesn't have a problem providing crema. Typically it's either poor > quality/incorrect age beans, poor grinder or poor technique. > > Here's some recent > shots:http://shaundoreenevankeegan.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-been-while-sinc... > t-some-coffee.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > Shaun Taylor > > http://shaundoreenevankeegan.blogspot.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Neil Atwood > Sent: 29 July 2009 19:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: water pressure and creating crema > > Fair enough Charles - we don't have Peets in Australia, and my only > knowledge of the product over your side of the world is pre-staled, vac > packs or tins. > > Neil A. > Blue Mountains, Ozhttp://minstrygrounds.net.au- A blog about selecting, > roasting and drinking > fine coffee > __________________________ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Charles Haynes > Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: water pressure and creating crema > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Neil Atwood<[email protected]> wrote: > > > Illy, Peets and anything else of that ilk are, by nature, stale. > > While I agree with your sentiment, and with what you said in general, > I feel I must defend Peets. It is possible to get non-stale Peets > beans, but you need to live close to the roaster. > > -- Charles --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
