I’m running out of Hario V60 (size 02) filters.
Someone at Lopwell, @browellm maybe, mentioned an alternative which of course I have forgotten.
Suggestions please.
Cafec Abaca? Faster flowing apparently. I haven’t tried them but Ritchie and Adam will have.
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I have some Cafec Abaca and they do all different types, specific to the type of roast and also fast/slow flowing but they are more expensive than Hario.
Mine for example are for Osmotic Flow/Medium to dark roast/water temp at 90c.
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The Cafec ones are not much more expensive than Hario, and are good. Get T-90, then Abaca, then T-83 in that order, according to availability.
You get a faster flow than Hario, without having to spend as much as Sibarist. You might need to make some adjustments to your usual workflow to allow for the faster flow.
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Just bought this - it is a lot more faffy than the Sage Bambino - I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m a lazy learner, I’ve dun drunk too much coff coff.
This is the size and shape of things
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This is The Way.
New café just opened near my mother’s home. I went mid range with a £9 pour over, which was an experimental fermentation process Colombian that tasted of bubblegum. Nephew had the iced coffee, espresso with home made lemonade and tonic.
Perfect extraction, each flavour note goes boing and yet it’s so delicate and clean. If I lived there my weekly coffee budget would be in three figures.
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A £9.00 pour-over makes me feel slightly better about my own coffee budget. I have gone a bit mad over the last month or so. Mainly because I discovered SL9. I first got some from that café in Paris I was telling you about at Lopwell. A couple of bags from there and then 3 more last week from Sigma. 
Anyway, a Peruvian coffee with an interesting history. It was known locally as ‘Inca Geisha’ because it has some of the floral traits, but someone tested the genetics and found that it was a strain developed in Africa by Scott Laboratories in the 1930’s. No one knows how it ended up in Peru. SL didn’t bother with it because of low yield and a lack of resistance to African coffee diseases. It doesn’t have this issue in Peru. It’s grown very high up, which leads to a complex cup, very much like the very best Ethiopians and then some.
Most of the Geshas I have tasted have had some kind of funky processing, or have been naturals, so its hard to compare. But I’d say that washed SL9 is more tea-like and refined. It has amazing sweetness and often a silkyness that I can only describe as (gulp) mouthfeel. Anyway, the fucking shit is empying my wallet. 
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There are many cunty things in this world. My most recent foe comes in the form of the DF54 grinder — specifically, THE DE-CLUMPER.
Firstly, whoever named this is a cunt. Secondly: FUCK YOU, DE-CLUMPER.
I have taken the machine apart so many times that I could rebuild it blindfolded, like Tom Cruise stripping and reassembling a Glock.
I have now bought a metal de-clumper in the hope that I won’t have to disassemble the machine after every fucking grind.
If Tommy Robinson were a coffee accessory, he would be a de-clumper.
CUNT.
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I fucking love this thread 
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You spray your beans?
Far and wide across the Mind Garden
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Try getting a handheld battery powered air duster. Blow it into the grinder every way you can, and it’ll remove most of the chaff. Do it every time you grind, and the build-up will be much lower.
You do get small grains all over the kitchen counter as the collateral damage. Meh.
This kind of thing:
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I have one in the office - Will give it a good blast at home
I’m of the opinion the Man From Kent is attempting to resuscitate Mr. MWS
This conclusion is based on the following instructions:
“Spray your beans” "Ross Droplet " “What’s a little spritz between friends?” “Get a prongy tool”
I am so aroused I now have first hand experience of what Rigor mortis feels like.
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bought new grinder
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hated it
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looked for other options
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all too tall for kitchen cabinet clearance
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moved coffee setup
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new grinder comes tomorrow
I mean it does feature some heavy Grindr action
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The filters for the Bluebottle dripper are hard to get. A while ago it was possible to buy them from Amazon Japan by the 100, but for whatever reason, they are only sold in boxes of 30 now, and this makes the postage ridiculous. I can get them in NYC when I go, but even then they come in 30’s and are a pain in the arse to carry if I’m travelling light. They roughly work out at 6 quid a box too, so not exactly cheap.
A while ago a mate gave me a dozen Sibarist Fast filters to try. I tried one and it was so fast flowing, my grind was a mile off so I left them. Recently, I decided to have another go at them and have gone through the dozen I had trying to get the grind right. I was tantalisingly close when I ran out! Anyway, a couple of days ago I received a box of them I ordered from Standout Coffee in Stockholm. They are £17 for 100, so not cheap but way cheaper than they are from outlets I have found in London. £18 for a box of 30? Just fuck off.
So, a bit more faff, and I have now got the grind right. They are so fast flowing that the grind has to be very fine. Looks mental by my normal standards. I have just made a pretty spectacular coffee with the latest grind size though!
I have tried the Kalita filters in the Bluebottle before, but never been happy with results. They seem to make a drink with too much body to my taste. These though, after mucho faff are really worthwhile! Has anyone else tried them?
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