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Barista’s Guide To Automatic Tamping with Gwilym Davies

All you need to know about automatic tampers. We asked our friend Gwilym Davies to share his experience from teaching hundreds of baristas how to tamp correctly and from implementing Puqpress behind the bar at Prufrock cafe in London. Disclaimer: Puqpress is an advertising partner of European Coffee Trip! Gwilym Davies: https://www.instagram.com/gwilymbarista — We would like to thank our sponsors: Victoria Arduino – http://www.victoriaarduino.com/ DRWakefield – http://drwakefield.com/ AeroPress, Inc. – https://aeropressinc.com Puqpress – http://www.puqpress.com IKAWA – https://www.ikawacoffee.com Comandante – http://www.comandantegrinder.com European Coffee Trip is an online magazine […]

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Learn Coffee with Gwilym: Introduction

Improve your barista skills in 2015. We are releasing a new video every week. Don't miss it and subscribe today: http://europeancoffeetrip.com/gwilym #1 COFFEE DISTRIBUTION: The first video is about the effective distribution of coffee from the grinder into the filter basket before tamping. To have a consistently even extraction without ‘channelling’ you need an effective and consistent technique for distributing the coffee evenly throughout the filter basket, leaving a flat and level surface before tamping. This video looks at what Distribution is and how to do it […]

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Learn Coffee with Gwilym: #2 Tamping Mistakes

Improve your barista skills in 2015. We are releasing a new video every week. Don't miss it and subscribe today: http://europeancoffeetrip.com/gwilym #2 TAMPING MISTAKES: The second video in our series looks at Tamping, an area of barista technique that has been over complicated and had far too much attention paid to it. Tamping is simply the applying of pressure to the coffee grinds to expel pockets of air and leave a level flat surface, the only requirements in achieving this are that you are consistent, quick, clean […]

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