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Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Live Reveal - Thursday 12th of June at 1700BST

WAKE UP AND COFFEE

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  • A
    Autorotate
    Joined: 6 Feb 2021

    Anyone here have experience with a lever machine? Specifically the Bezzera Strega. My beloved 13 year old Quick Mill QM67 is down for the count (shorted wiring).
    The Strega has great reviews and a comfortable price point. The Profitec 800 and Londinium R24 are candidates too. Thanks!

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      pechelman
      啓蒙家
      @Autorotate
      Joined: 24 Jan 2022

      @Autorotate said in WAKE UP AND COFFEE:

      Anyone here have experience with a lever machine? Specifically the Bezzera Strega. My beloved 13 year old Quick Mill QM67 is down for the count (shorted wiring).
      The Strega has great reviews and a comfortable price point. The Profitec 800 and Londinium R24 are candidates too. Thanks!

      I've got a Stregra; sadly it's been sitting in a box now for 7 years. It's fantastic and was on daily duty for many years. What do you want to know?

      At the time, I got mine around the time the Londinium released their first machine. That version was a little quirky as I recall but did make great 'spro too.

      Feel free to pm.

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        Autorotate
        Joined: 6 Feb 2021

        Wow. I thought the Strega was kinda rare. So cool, and of course, someone into IH, has this machine. I’ll hit you up in PM’s.

        last edited by 30 Dec 2024, 20:31 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
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          Seul
          Joined: 24 Nov 2009

          It was 12€ for the 8 cup version so figured I'd give it a go... Mainly wanna make cold brew with it...

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            m4xime
            Raw and Unwashed
            Joined: 22 Oct 2024

            Has anyone got a good recommendation for a little coffee travel bag? Looking to take something like an Aeropress, grinder, beans, filters etc ... As much as I think I can survive on tea or passable coffee for a few days I do really miss a great cup to start the day when I'm away from home and there's no easy to access good coffee shop nearby.

            WTB:

            IHSH-369-GRY (M)

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              Nocturama
              Haraki san Prodigy
              Joined: 1 Jan 2023

              Expressing my thoughts on the IHSH-421 in coffee form…
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              #JustStopCrocs

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                Matt
                見習いボス
                @m4xime
                Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                @m4xime looks like @giles is selling one at a good price over in B&S.

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                  twin
                  見習いボス
                  Joined: 12 May 2012

                  A coffee day here.

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                    T4920
                    見習いボス
                    Joined: 27 Apr 2022

                    Most interesting coffee I've had in a while, the Turkish Delight flavour is so distinct. 👌

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                    “𝑁𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡.”

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                      Chap
                      見習いボス
                      Joined: 24 May 2016

                      The Barn from Berlin is my favorite coffee roaster since many years. Their latest Masterpiece Subscription, a Gesha from Graciano Cruz' Emporio Estate in Panama.

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                      God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere. Willie Nelson

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                        twin
                        見習いボス
                        Joined: 12 May 2012

                        Coffee at Big Phil,s

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                          northsouthdenimguy
                          Haraki san Expert
                          Joined: 27 Nov 2022

                          Doppio with a splash of cream IMG_3301.jpeg

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                            twin
                            見習いボス
                            Joined: 12 May 2012

                            Twin A breakfast coffee.

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                            Twin B breakfast coffee.

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                            last edited by 17 Feb 2025, 22:17 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
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                              mclaincausey
                              見習いボス
                              Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                              Well this was wild. My friend heads up sourcing at Corvus Coffee of Denver and they got some beans of eugenoides, the species of coffee that crossed with robusta to form arabica. It’s an exceptionally rare bean reserved normally for barista championships.

                              They put together a brilliant tasting that went through this lineage and culminated with several forms of eugenoides. It was mind blowing. The bitterness going from robusta to arabica and eugenoides went to nothing, and the tartness and citrus fruit in a granola bar flavor was wild. The pourover and especially espresso and cortado were incredible. They have to grind quite fine for the pour over such that the espresso and pour over grinds are similar. It sheds water much more readily than other beans for some reason.

                              The four of us at the tasting went through about 2 cups of caffeine worth across all varietals and the eugenoides piece would have been two trees for what we had. It’s a low yield and tiny tree so it’s hard to find and I’m so grateful to have had it. But it’s where the brighter flavors of arabica came from. Pretty cool to taste that.

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                              Think it, be it.

                              last edited by mclaincausey 23 Feb 2025, 03:15 SKTS 1 Reply Last reply 23 Feb 2025, 13:50 Reply Quote 12
                              • SKTS
                                SKT
                                見習いボス
                                @mclaincausey
                                Joined: 26 Aug 2019

                                @mclaincausey very cool. I’d love to experience something like this.

                                last edited by 23 Feb 2025, 13:50 M 1 Reply Last reply 23 Feb 2025, 16:26 Reply Quote 0
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                                  mclaincausey
                                  見習いボス
                                  @SKT
                                  Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                  @SKT it’s so cool. I think there’s a viable market for what they’re doing. No guarantees they’ll get eugenides again but they get plenty of other exotic coffees in terms of the varietal as well as the production. There are some mad scientist producers doing things like borrowing wine fermentation techniques for beans. A lot of crazy stuff out there to try.

                                  This morning I had an exotic I picked up yesterday. I can’t justify drinking these on the regular and workday mornings require the coffee maker and carafe, but holy cow what a cuppajoe. This incredibly sweet coffee would have tasted comparatively bitter going back and forth with eugenoides as I was doing across the cuppings yesterday, which is insane.

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                                  Think it, be it.

                                  last edited by mclaincausey 23 Feb 2025, 16:26 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
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                                    twin
                                    見習いボス
                                    Joined: 12 May 2012

                                    Coffee for today.

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                                    • AlexA
                                      Alex
                                      IHUK Crew
                                      Joined: 28 Sept 2009

                                      Good coffee not easy to find in quieter parts of Japan…

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                                      last edited by 1 Mar 2025, 00:53 B 1 Reply Last reply 1 Mar 2025, 11:18 Reply Quote 11
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                                        Matt
                                        見習いボス
                                        Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                        Wait… are you in Japan now? Wtf?

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                                        • AlexA
                                          Alex
                                          IHUK Crew
                                          @Matt
                                          Joined: 28 Sept 2009

                                          @Matt a man’s gotta work

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