I have stopped my TW Sub,
Had too many issues, with inconsistency of delivery (probably not all their fault) never knew when or if the coffee would turn up.
Plus had a load of IT frozen account issues.
Using a roaster a couple of miles away now!
Haha, great timing. They shifted all their shipping to next day Fedex 
Never knew my feedback would be so influential 
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We are always listening
What was the name of that coffee app, it hasnāt pulled over to my new phone
Had lots of recipes timers etc
It may have been on a website and added to homescreen thinking it was an app
Christmas present: 1Zpresso, ZP6-S. Designed especially for pour-over, and supposed to get near flat burr taste.
I dialled it in just visually, comparing to the grind from my usual grinder. I made a brew and straight away I can taste that it produces a very clean, light cup. Excited!
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I ended up getting the Raro Boda and La Nevada, and then more recently, the Alto Bonito and Festive Blend (which has disappeared from the website but can see description here).
Iāve finished the first three but not yet had the Blend. Overall I thought they were nice, donāt think I found the tasting notes in the Alto though.
My wife bought some beans from Harrods just before Xmas - I was prepared for disappointment, finding a generic coffee taste - but have actually been really impressed - I think I like them more than the Workshop Coffee beans so far! Have had a lot of good flavours from them (canāt find a descriptor and I threw away the card accidentally).
Iāve almost finished them so on to the Festive Blend soon.
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Matthew Algie supply Harrods and a number of other high end London places with coffee, If you can work out what beans are in the roast then you can buy the MA version a good bit cheaper if you want to purchase again, My best mate used to work there so I had an unlimited supply for a few years ;-p
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Interesting, thanks!
Iād meant to add that I shouldnāt really have been suspecting disappointment as supermarkets usually use good suppliers for their white labelled products. I think it was more that the beans could have been roasted some time ago and so could have lost some of their flavour.
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Nice. Iāve had a 1zpresso for a few years now and have been very happy with it.
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I have a bad habit of chucking the card when I transfer beans from the packet to the storage container. Always confident I will remember what Iām drinking, and always wrong.
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I also.
Lavender! That will need to be good.
Iāll let you know. Iāve opened the geisha first, natch. First couple of sips and Iām getting honey.
Itās very interesting, this grinder. You have a flat burr, so may be used to the kind of flavour profile. But compared to my Knock, this takes away a lot of the body, and makes every brew kinda clean and tea-like. Not made anything remotely over extracted, yet. Itās night and day different.
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Iāve seen a Gardelli Yirgacheffe Natural that mentions Lavender, Peach, Black Tea and Cherry and I really want to try it but the shipping cost 
Maybe that one is an alternative to try.
Going to look at Horsham pricing now!
Slapped an order in at Horsham for that Costa Rican and also a Kenyan noting blackcurrant and rhubarb which I couldnāt say no to.
Further new grinder experienceā¦
Having started with a grind size visually similar to that I was using with my Knock, and making very light, tea - like brews; delicate, and very drinkable. I decided, out of interest, to see where others are grinding with the ZP6-S.
Most info seemed to point to a position on the adjustment ring 180Ā° away from where I was, and much finer. Eventually, I found the 1zpresso grind charts which confirmed this. Actually, a very narrow band between numbers 4-5. I tried it, the grind is indeed much finer! Well, I thought, this is going to be a waste of beansā¦ Not so! The mad thing is that the draw down time is still very quick, the water just whizzes through it. Anyway, the coffee is now much sweeter with a long finish, and still no real taste of over extraction.
Iām going to see how it tastes around this mark, courser and finer and then experiment with ratios. I usually go with 1:16ā¦ Further reading has suggested that brews around 1:18 might be worth a go, so will muck about with this a bit.
So far Iām very impressed. This thing is flexible. My Knock can seem like itās on a bit of a knife edge, and sometimes Iām adjusting it tiny amounts to get the drink right. This is really different. I reckon you could brew to highlight certain aspects of a bean. The coarser grind really seemed to define certain notes.
Itās costing me a fortune though. I blew another 16 quid yesterday!
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