Defiant Bean Roasters - Fair Trade and Organic

"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 [...]

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Water Filter/Direct Plumb Saga Part Two- DRAIN!

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 [...]

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Daily Pull

This shot was “OK” but underextracted IMHO

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

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Weiss Distribution Technique

This post begins with a pulled shot.

This is my first recorded pull using the Weiss Distribution Method.

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Grinders Grinders Grinders

Image via Wikipedia

One would think choosing a coffee grinder was simple. You simply need something to whack the bean into ity bits and pour hot water over/through it. Well as one begins to do more research, and especially in the realm of espresso making it becomes painfully clear that such is not the [...]

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Saved!

So I sit here drinking a fine tasty coffee a la Americano. How you ask? You faithful reader, you are aware that my ECM Giotto is down for the count as we wait for the brown man. Well one word my friend: Aeropress. What was once just a “camping tool’ in our [...]

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Really Bad Pull

Notice the squirting out the sides, minimal crema, and it blondes quite quickly. Also impressive is the horrible cinematography.

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