The Bleeding Bean

Defiant Bean Roasters – Fair Trade and Organic

jacobkoski — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:39:18 +0000

"The Best Coffee in Glenwood Springs"

The Defiant Bean Roasters are to be found in Downtown Glenwood Springs Colorado. This superb small-batch Roaster is in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado near the ski resort Sunlight and outside of Aspen Colorado.

Well named as ‘Defiant’ the philosophy behind this underground operation bucks fast changing trends in the world of [...]

Coffee In the Summertime In Crested Butte Colorado

jacobkoski — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:57:46 +0000

Its a tiny picture sure, but its hard when you’re just stealing images from another site. People have become so “possessive” of their intellectual property. Strange when most people would freely give you their opinions and feelings on a matter, even if you didn’t ask. This little coffee shop is located a V shaped valley, [...]

Red Espresso- An Honest Review

jacobkoski — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:04:16 +0000

Red Espresso is a rooibos tea finely chopped meant to be brewed in the portafilter of an espresso machine just like espresso coffee. Stovetop espresso machines are also recommended.

Natasha at Red Espresso was kind enough to send us a few bags to try out!

First of all- cool packaging. Comes in a resealable bag [...]

The Professional Barista’s Handbook

jacobkoski — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:16:45 +0000

"a Barista's Manual for creating quality beverages"

An Experts Guide to Preparing Espresso, Coffee, and Tea by Scott Rao

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Scott Rao’s book is stout! Literally as well as figuratively. The book is well bound with a thick “school text book” style glossy cover. However for its thick [...]

PTsCoffee Espresso Review- La Bella Vita

jacobkoski — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:01:49 +0000

The wonderful people over at PTsCoffee were kind enough to send me their espresso blend La Bella Vita, and the espresso coffee blend Gizmo. This is a review of the PTsCoffee Espresso La Bella Vita, the Gizmo will follow. PtsCoffee is an award winning roaster and equipment merchant based out of Kansas!

We brewed [...]

Water Filter/Direct Plumb Saga Part Three- DRAIN!

jacobkoski — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:42:47 +0000

Part One

Part Two

The long awaited, game-changing, trivial and meaningless espresso machine ECM Giotto plumb-in direct connect heat exchanger E-61 OVERFLOW PROTECTION!!!

This mod may leave you wondering “why”? And I have found that the answers to questions like that are not always very satisfying. Whatever the reasons for doing it- its done now. Would [...]

Daily Pull

jacobkoski — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:48:12 +0000

This shot was “OK” but underextracted IMHO

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn-boICeIa0

I adjusted the grind and gave it another whirl- better- video starts about 7 seconds into shot. Nice but fast dissipating crema.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDSSYWfL1x0

Weiss Distribution Technique

jacobkoski — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:54:06 +0000

This post begins with a pulled shot.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq20tYZtVm8

This is my first recorded pull using the Weiss Distribution Method. This shot seems over extracted but supposedly that’s what the Roman Espresso from Blue Bottle calls for. My wife said it tasted “mild” compared to what she is used too (I think its because I made [...]

Water Filter/Direct Plumb Saga Part Two

jacobkoski — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:10:09 +0000

This is my second post now on plumbing direct connect for my ECM Giotto Heat Exchanger machine. (first here) I would think this would work with plumbing in any HX machine. In plumbing in my ECM Giotto HX espresso machine I chose to use a float valve in lieu of a direct connect [...]

How to Pour a Latte Art Owl

jacobkoski — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:29:04 +0000

You’ve heard of swans, and rosettas and blah blah blah. Behold the owl.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqx_lmCkYNI

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