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Originally posted by Grillsy
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I saw some advertising videos on youtube. I will post some photos, I hope shortly -
I have now had my 'Leva' for 4 months (which I know is a blink of the eye) but the more I use the machine the more I fall in love.
When we have friends over they are so intrigued by it (with most first comments being ' Wow'), I enjoy explaining the process, showing the totally silent pour and they are loving the end results in the cup. The general consensus of all is that the coffee is the best they have tried and way better than anything they get in a shop - to be honest I hardly ever go out for coffee now.
After some trial and error I am finding that around 20grams (+/- a gram) gives me the best results in the cup. Infuse for around 10 seconds and then raise the lever till it meets resistance.. from there I let pressure do the rest. End result is a sweet, syrupy cup of black gold.
I ended up getting the Mahlglut tamper and dozer and these work a treat.
All in all a very happy camper and to anyone thinking of taking the plunge I cannot recommend the Alex highly enough.
Happy drinking all.
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They look a beauty!
Have you tried playing around with the PID settings? I have the profitec pro 800 - same group head I believe. I have only recently started playing with the brew temp after finding it didn't make much difference with the taste in the cup, unitl the bean I am using now.Comment
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Great news Alistair,
They are brilliant - you will love it. I still enjoy mine every day
Cheers
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After your suggestion I dropped the temp from 120 to 118 and the difference is a smoother taste with a lot of the harshness gone...Comment
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I haven't played with the temp settings too much yet as initially I found it didn't make too much difference. Until these beans, PNG Peaberries, which were a little burnt and not great at 123 set point then dropped to 120 and it was a world of difference.Comment
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Not quite - the Alex Leva and variants use the venerable La San Marco 55mm group, which many credit with being very forgiving due to the depth of the puck. Profitec use a standard E-61 58mm group, their own design as I understand.Originally posted by WhatEverBeansNecessary View Post
With a dipper boiler and leva group I'd expect temperature changes would take ages to cascade through and affect the cup - the boiler and the entire group has to change along with all the water in the boiler.Comment
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As promised, here are some photos of the new arrival.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hyhpabxhtj...10305.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lrkzu5kqe8...51339.jpg?dl=0
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I also bought the stainless steel circlips together with the alex.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vbplzyor3...94450.jpg?dl=0
in doubt, I bought the one from 48 and the one from 50
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Unfortunately it was not possible to load the boiler with a bottle placed 1 meter above, so I had to resort to a trick, waiting for the arrival of a small pump.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7bfoaguy8ctea49/IMG_20180331_183814.jpg?dl=0
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Using the izzo only in the morning, I proceeded to install a timer, so as to find it warm.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ykwr77wkq2l9m4/IMG_20180411_211023.jpg?dl=0Comment
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The thing that I did not expect, is the sound of water when the resistance is running. Probably the Izzo serves as a sound box.
As soon as I can, I will do some measure of the temperature of the group.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/er9w1fqk4dgfxht/IMG_20180312_215139.jpg?dl=0
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Looks great Levers,
You will have years of joy from her
I assume that you have good filtration organised too? I also have a Belkin surge protector that my timer is plugged in to after a power surge in this town destroyed $10K worth of his electrical appliances
Cheers
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Using water for one coffee a day plus steam to heat the milk, use mineral water with low residues. Load about 800 grams a week, maybe not even install the pump ... Yesterday I discovered a cafeteria Izzo at the shopping center Da Vinci, the grandson of Mr. Izzo, he kindly gave me two cups, after I told him that I hadrecently purchased a Izzo lever.https://www.dropbox.com/s/l7dwhfozxx...60333.jpg?dl=0Comment
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Finally got around to popping the shower screen off and after a bit of fiddling around and narrowly missed decapitating the cat with the wayward circlip I was met with....
After a good scrub I ended up with
Looked to be a whole lot of grease from when the machine was new. I know food grade so not bad but it was blocking a lot of holes.
I still love this machine and the coffee just keeps getting betterAttached FilesComment
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