One of the reasons I jumped up to the Expobar late last year was the lure of being able to doing multiple coffees for a house full of guests.
I got my first proper test yesterday.
The youngster had her christening and we had about 60 people back to our place for morning tea.
My in-laws once owned a tea room and still had a large number of coffee cups/saucers from those days and were kind enough to lend them to us for the day.
I decided to use Altitude blend as the coffee of the day.
This coffee seems to peak at 10-18 days in my opinion, so I roasted about 800g of it on 27/01/07.
My backup was 500g of Peru Grace Estate (+4 days) if required.
The machine coped without missing a beat. We did over 50 coffees and 2 hot chocs.
No tea was requested. Not sure if people didnt want any or were just too afraid to ask the obsessed coffee guy.
Went through nearly all the altitude and about 7 litres of milk.
I did mostly a mixture of flat whites and cappas.
2 long blacks were ordered. No idea if the recipients liked them or not.
Many people complimented, no-one complained, but I doubt that anyone would have complained as they would have thought they were being rude.
Several people appeared back at the machine after their first cup looking hopeful for another.
I took that to mean they liked the coffee.
Very happy with how it went.
Gave the machine a good clean last night, and had a Peru to cap off the night. Yum.
Brett.
I got my first proper test yesterday.
The youngster had her christening and we had about 60 people back to our place for morning tea.
My in-laws once owned a tea room and still had a large number of coffee cups/saucers from those days and were kind enough to lend them to us for the day.
I decided to use Altitude blend as the coffee of the day.
This coffee seems to peak at 10-18 days in my opinion, so I roasted about 800g of it on 27/01/07.
My backup was 500g of Peru Grace Estate (+4 days) if required.
The machine coped without missing a beat. We did over 50 coffees and 2 hot chocs.
No tea was requested. Not sure if people didnt want any or were just too afraid to ask the obsessed coffee guy.
Went through nearly all the altitude and about 7 litres of milk.
I did mostly a mixture of flat whites and cappas.
2 long blacks were ordered. No idea if the recipients liked them or not.
Many people complimented, no-one complained, but I doubt that anyone would have complained as they would have thought they were being rude.
Several people appeared back at the machine after their first cup looking hopeful for another.
I took that to mean they liked the coffee.
Very happy with how it went.
Gave the machine a good clean last night, and had a Peru to cap off the night. Yum.
Brett.

And hope to God no-one comes back for seconds.
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