#NCP OMFG. Lewis AGAIN screwed by Ferrari's horrible strategy and team instructions. Was told Max was on a fast lap, then a slow lap, and was caught obviously impeding because his engineer got it wrong. Result is a 3 place grid drop. FFS. Ferrari's been shooting themselves in the foot with strategy, planning, instructions FOR YEARS now. Such a shit show at times. #Formula1 #MonacoGP

#NCP and more #Formula1 talk... re the Dictator No.3 Formula One Race (aka Saudi GP), I love it when we get to see pissy Max. No doubt Max is an amazing driver. That's not in dispute. But he's also a spoiled brat, thinks the rules shouldn't apply to him, and when he gets tagged, he gets all pissy and whiny about it all. Seeing him seethe in the driver cooldown room was bril. Shame he killed the vibe on the podium celebration. (I am not a Max fan).

#NCP AI seems to be making its way into spambot comments on websites. the last month or two, I've been tracking some very "real sounding" comments made to our website content that even references the subject of the article the spambots are posting on. With a pseudo-real "voice" to the posts. The giveaways are the email addresses, which are still very spam botty. And the "voice" still doesn't read as 100% real. #ai #spam #aispam

Late night thought: Coffee people who trash siphon coffee don't know how to brew with a siphon coffee maker. Siphon coffee is very much an art, but it is also every bit as consistent as pour over is, if you nail down your "recipe" and follow it religiously. To do so, you have to be just as practiced and attentive as any demanding brewing method. Those who trash it just don't get it. And probably aren't worth listening to on the subject. 😎

#NCP the next #F1 race is probably going to be even more boring and predictable. It's at Monaco, a track that just doesn't suit the massive, bloated sizes that F1 cars have become in the past 15 years. No passing, no battles, not much of anything, unless it rains. Not even sure I'll watch it. Prediction: Max will win by 15 seconds. ;)

#NCP So Elon, the guy with a B.A, in Economics (not an engineer) has a solution for rebuilding that Baltimore bridge destroyed by a ship? Great. But I'm especially looking forward to Joe Rogan's suggested solutions. We should definitely go with his. 😉

Fresh, and updated on CoffeeGeek today: Our comprehensive visual step by step guide to using a Hario V60 coffee brewing system! We've added some history and background to the brewer in this guide. #pourover #hariov60 #hario #coffee cc @npub15et5...4hzw

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How To Use a Hario V60 Pour Over

CoffeeGeek's in depth how to on the Hario V60 brewing system, with its patented ribbed filter holder and conical filters. Updated for 2024.

We have so much new content up on CoffeeGeek since our relaunch, I cannot remember if I posted this nice article from our senior blog contributor, Zuzanna. She writes five easy tips for making better home coffee. #coffee cc @npub15et5...4hzw

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Five Tips for Better Home Coffee

It doesn't take much - or cost much, to really improve your coffee at home; here's five common sense ways to improve it.

Have you ever seen or used a coffee balance brewer? We have the most complete "How To" you'll find online, on these fascinating historical brewing devices, up on CoffeeGeek. It is the world's first "Automatic Coffee Maker". Designed in 1844! #coffee #balancebrewer cc @npub15et5...4hzw

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How to Use a Balance Brewer

How to use the world's first automatic coffee maker for the home: the balance brewer. Invented in 1852, they are still made to this day.

Here it is, our fully updated and revised guide to making the delicious, nutritious (well, that's a stretch), Irish Coffee! The world's first breakout coffee cocktail! And we present a modern variant of it later on in the article. Enjoy! #cocktail #coffee #irishcoffee cc @npub15et5...4hzw

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How to Make an Irish Coffee

CoffeeGeek's comprehensive step by step guide to making an Irish Coffee, both as a very traditional drink, and with a modern twist.

There's dozens of mistake people make with their espresso machines, but we've identified the top six. Check it out #espresso cc @npub1jcn4...gw7e

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6 Mistakes People Make with Espresso Machines

Here's six ways you might be messing up your home espresso, and how you can immediately improve on them for a fantastic result.

For me, a straight up #espresso in the early afternoon is always a good choice. Cup is the Fellow Monty espresso cup, which is really nice for enjoying espresso in. The review for the monty cups is almost complete too, should be up some point next week on CoffeeGeek.

Okay folks, you voted, and you picked the Gaggia Classic Evo Pro as the next Review / First Look to be published on CoffeeGeek. Thanks for voting! It will launch tonight; but in the meantime, check out our blog post on the launch of the Gaggia Classic Pro, back in 2019. #espresso #coffee #gaggia #gaggiaclassic #espressomachine

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Gaggia Introduces the Gaggia Classic Pro

Gaggia reverses past mistakes with the Classic Line and introduces the new Gaggia Classic Pro Espresso Machine!

#NCP Interesting observation after typing about 10,000 words on a higher end mechanical keyboard with dimpled keycaps... If you happen to go back to a chicklet keyboard briefly to type something, your fingertips feel weird, almost numb. Anyone else ever notice this? #mechanicalkeyboard #keychron #k3pro

Speaking of #coffee and #espresso history, This is the FIRST EVER photo of a "chopped" portafilter espresso shot posted online (2004). The first time people saw, visually, how espresso extracted directly out of the bottom of a filter basket. For context, two baristas from Zoka Coffee in Seattle blogged about drilling the bottom off a PF to see the shot. Alistair Durie (that's him) at Elysian in Vancouver read the post, did it too, invited me down to check it out. I did, and snapped this photo.

We try to be really honest with all the reviews we publish on CoffeeGeek. Breville, for example, is a long time advertiser and supporter of CoffeeGeek, and I've done consulting work with them in the past. That didn't translate into any pulled punches in our review of the Breville Dose Control Pro, a grinder you should probably pass on. #coffeegrinder #espressogrinder #breville #dosecontrolpro #grinder #coffee #espresso

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Breville Dose Control Pro Grinder

The Breville Dose Control Pro was innovative when it came out in 2014. How does the grinder stack up today? Here's CoffeeGeek's full review.

The irony is, CoffeeGeek.com gets nearly the same traffic (visiting readers) from this Mastodon account (with the 447 followers) for new content we write on CoffeeGeek, as I do from our Twitter posts of the same content links (supposedly 27.4K followers over there). In fact, we get more traffic in a day from our Flipboard Magazine than we do in 2 weeks from Twitter. That platform was dying long before Elon. He's just speeding it up.

New CoffeeGeek Content this afternoon: The Turin SK40 is a new entry in the range of high quality $200 grinders. It's an espresso-primary single dose grinder that can do pour over. #coffeegrinder #espressogrinder #singledose #turin #turinsk40 #coffee #espresso #coffeegeek

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The Turin SK40 Single Dose Grinder: a new quality level for entry point grinders

The Turin SK40 is a new entry in the range of high quality $200 grinders. It's an espresso-primary single dose grinder that can do pour over. ...

A cup in a cup. A study showing what a proper, traditional cappuccino is (a 5oz drink) vs. what people order at Starbucks all the time (20oz ventis). Taken in 2006, scanned 2011. Nikon FM3a, ƒ/3.5, 1/80. 28mm Nikkor 1.8, ISO200 (pulled), Tri-X film 400 film. Cleaned up a bit in the scan (I regret that). #nikonfm3a #filmphotography #film #kodaktrix #monochrome #blackandwhite #cappuccino '#espresso

Pouring latte art. Fujifilm X100S, custom black and white settings. ƒ/4, 1/60, 23mm, ISO800. Taken March 17, 2014 in Vancouver. #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #coffee #espresso #latteart