When drum coffee co-founder/owner John Wicks isn’t managing his Missoula, Montana, business with his wife Jenna, he moonlights as a drummer for Fitz and The Tantrums. Who owns sey coffee? Armed with a decade of experience in the coffee industry –– slinging espresso shots as baristas, managing, training, and more –– Tobin Polk and Lance … Read more
Roasting using conduction means the beans are coming in contact with a hot metal surface – the surface of the drum where roasting takes place. Roasting using convection means that heat is applied indirectly using hot air. What type of heat is roasting? Convective Heat in Coffee Roasting When you open a hot oven and … Read more
In an espresso machine the heat exchanger works on the same principle of taking a heat source and transferring the heat energy to another object The boiler itself supplies the user with steam for stretching milk as well as hot water, but the heat exchanger helps create temperature-regulated water for brewing espresso. What is HX … Read more
Most automatic espresso machines have 5 buttons. The last button on the right is usually for manual flow The buttons with 1 cup are usually set to 40 ml and the buttons with 2 cups are set to 80 ml. On the picture above this means that button 1 and 2 are set to 40 … Read more