Great Quality Beans But Bad Tasting Espresso? This is Why.

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An all too common question I get, goes along the lines of "the coffee I've just bought, tastes like crap, it's supposed to be high quality coffee, what's going on?
I've even heard of people trying freshly roasted coffee, and then making the decision to go back to buying big brand mainstream coffee, deciding that this speciality coffee thing is all nonsense, as the McDonald's commercials would have you believe (don't flipping get me started...! Stick to Big Macs, Ronald!).
If this happens, don't blame it on the coffee, here's what to blame it on.
3 Tips for Set & Forget Espresso Machine Users: • Top 3 Tips for Set & F...
Simplifying Espresso Series: • Simplifying Espresso
The Jackson Brothers who wrote "Don't Blame it On the Boogie": www.theguardian.com/music/201...
• Mick Jackson - Blame I...
The shocking amount of money that Mick Jackson from Yorkshire made from the song he wrote, that The Jackson 5 made famous, is apparently ZERO! Their publisher apparently sold the rights to the song without their approval, and they ended up in litigation, with the publisher but ultimately never earned a penny in Royalties as the songwriter from the huge amounts of income that the Jackson 5 version clearly raked in!
My big list of coffee roasters (UK & Ireland): coffeeblog.co.uk/coffee-roast...
Freshly roasted high-quality coffee beans from The Coffeeworks (my website): cworks.co.uk (use discount code yt25 for 25% off your first order).
Coffee blog: coffeeblog.co.uk
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/coffeeblogkev
Current Gear:
Quick note. I'm including all of this info because when I was starting out, I found it really difficult to figure out what gear to use, so I'm hoping if there's anyone looking to set up for KZfaq, this might help. If you need more help just email me, kev at coffeeblog.co.uk - if I don't know the answer I'll ask the professionals.
I'm listing the current setup first that the pros are using, and then my original more budget setup.
The pro stuff (new studio setup, with brickovenmedia.co.uk)
Blackmagic Pocket 4K amzn.to/3EnYAKJ
Samyang 35 mm T1.5 VDSLR II Manual Focus Video Lens amzn.to/3RB4Q4I
VILTROX EF-M2 II Focal Reducer Booster Adapter Auto-Focus 0.71x compatible with Canon EF mount Lens to M43 Cameras amzn.to/3e37Qcp
Glide Gear TMP100 Adjustable iPad/Tablet/Smartphone Teleprompter Beam Splitter Glass amzn.to/3C7hRgt
Promptsmart Pro bit.ly/3CAhXPl (tablet prompter app, includes voice tracking, very good! If you have it more than a couple of metres away from you, just use a lav mic with an extension so it can year you).
Aputure LS COB 300D II LED Continuous Fresnel Light 300D Mark II amzn.to/3SVy4ft
Aputure Accent B7C 7W RGBWW LED Smart Bulbs amzn.to/3RD0ABu
aputure light dome ii amzn.to/3M5XjcY
Sennheiser MKH 60
Sanken Cos 11 Lavalier
If you're interested in any of this gear but you don't want to buy new, check out www.mpb.com/en-uk
My budget setup (prior to working with Brickoven):
Canon M6 Mark ii amzn.to/3zoczes (quick note, knowing what I now know I wish I'd have gone for the pocket 4k, which you can get used from MPB for a few hundred more.
Blue Ember Mic (used mainly for voiceovers): amzn.to/3pT6WR1
RØDE VideoMic Pro: amzn.to/3DV7xHg (note, it's good for the £, but with what I now know thanks to the guys at Brickoven, I'd recommend the RØDE NTG4 amzn.to/3M8nIXy or RØDE NT5.
Focusrite Scarlett Solo 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface: amzn.to/3e3qwFn
Amaran 100D LED Video Light, 130W 5500K (Key light): amzn.to/3oQYrqY
Aputure Light Dome SE Softbox: amzn.to/3ESdHcJ
Neewer Bi-color 660 LED Video Light and Stand Kit (Fill light): amzn.to/35jUtwp
Neewer Portable 56 inch/142 cm Aluminium Camera Tripods (I have a few of these, very good value) amzn.to/3pPlCke
Cayer BV30L tripod with fluid head amzn.to/3fJdEbr (mega tripod for the money!)
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Has this ever happened to you?
1:50 What's the cause?
2:55 What is "set & forget" espresso?
3:50 Why does some coffee taste great without making tweaks?
5:28 A quick tip
6:97 Bean to cup / super automatic machines
7:29 Kev's Pointless Fact, HEE-HEE
7:45 Outro
7:58 Tatty bye
Please note, affiliate links included above.
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@gailoakley4010 10 ай бұрын

Your videos without a doubt always bring a smile to my face😊

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Excellent! :-)

@CH-yp5by 9 ай бұрын

My top tips are: 1) Always keep the portafilter hot in the machine never put coffee in a cold portafilter as this is a heat sink and will mean the brew temp will be too low which creates sour coffee. 2) If the coffee is less than 2 weeks old after roast date it will taste overly starchy / stringent, make sure its at least 2 week old and store it in the freezer air tight not fridge! 3) Do not use tap water in the UK , the water is too heavy always use large bottle of spring water, you can 5L ones from Tesco that do the job fine, it really makes a huge difference! 4) Make sure your machine is hot enough if you do not have a temp controller aka PID than avoid median roasts as they need a higher heat, a darker roast is a lot easier to get better results with bean to cup machines that being said, make sure your machine has heated up properly first and run a blank shot before use to heat everything up properly! 5) Lastly seriously consider getting a better quality machine second hand of ebay and more importantly a higher quality grinder like a Eureka Mignon.

@Lilfreshy505 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video!❤

@waynestevens3662 9 ай бұрын

Kev great use of jacko on the subscription icon,,,, im still laughing. 🤣.... i dont know if i watch the vids for the info or the comedy. great work mate. Ps after your reviews and info I purchased a sage oracle back in May, I tried your choc brownie (and a couple of other blends)and the brownie is the best coffee ive ever tasted, im still working out how to dial in each bag. I finished my last batch of choc brownie off and forgot to get an order in so i picked up a supermarket bag to get me by......its awfull!.... ive just ordered more brownie(this time on subscription) and im trying one of your collection packs too. I dont really talk coffee with friends they all just know i wont drink rubbish, i was at a frends house the other day and asked for a coffee, she said "ahh you are the coffee snob arnt you, well dont worry ive got a gaggia and some of kevs beans", i said "have you been ordering from coffeeworks?" she said "yep, and im never going back to normal coffee".....theyve all got the bug, well those that know that nescafe is like rabbit droppings have. keep up the great vids bud. and the roasting too. all the best Wayne.

@TheWebstaff 10 ай бұрын

No I blame the coffee. Each and every time. 😂

@TheWebstaff 10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of that one time someone gave me earl grey tea!

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

@@TheWebstaff I love Earl Grey! 😆

@playnicegames 10 ай бұрын

As a coffee professional, I still find your videos highly entertaining

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

That's good to hear, thanks! :-)

@tonycannon3906 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Kev. Very much a noob here. My second hand Ranchilio Sylvia V2 just arrived today and will a few bags of speciality coffee to play with I'm just discovering this. One bags setting can be quite different to the next. I guess coffee isn't all the same. But isn't that half the fun. Great stuff as always buddy 👊

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Yeah one bag can definitely be quite a bit different to the next, it's definitely a challenge working with freshly roasted beans and traditional baskets, it's worth it though in my opinion, and it's mostly fun, except at 7.59 AM when you were supposed to be leaving for work at 8, and you're debating giving up and grabbing a take away coffee instead ;-).

@shanewilson2152 10 ай бұрын

Hi Kev, my friend has a Brevel Barista Express, the same as me. The problem with this machine is when she makes an extraction, the preinfusion pressure is OK, but the pressure for the extraction barely makes it into the espresso range. Tryed adjusting the grind size, but made no difference. Could you help me please.

@veraduarte5218 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos! Im looking to buy a sage machine, but I can't choose between the old dual temp and a separate grinder, or a barista express with integrated grinder. I am a cappuccino drinker and I love work the milk, dont need a fully automatic thing. Anybody could give me tips?

@TG-420 10 ай бұрын

I had a sage machine with a built in grinder (Sage Oracle) and I now I have a Gaggia Classic Pro with a Sage Dose Control Pro. Out of both, I actually prefer the Gaggia with a Grinder setup. I think I've been getting better espresso and I've become better a milk texturing since. The Sage Grinder did require me messing with the burr settings (Kev has a video on this) to be able to dial in. Honestly, I'd go with the duel temp and get a decent grinder. If you can afford it, get something better than what I got, a better suited grinder means better tasting espresso.

@MsJokert6 4 ай бұрын

That's a little frustrated because trying to dial at each bag is annoying these coffee brands are not cheap enough to be sitting here experimenting with.

@ferincr 10 ай бұрын

Hi, another espresso newbie here. I'm on my fourth or fifth bag of coffee through my BDB and I haven't had a decent shot yet. I've been tweaking the settings but I seem to go from choking the machine to too fast (I have a basic grinder the one that came with the dual boiler) but no matter what I do shots are unbelievable sour. Today I bought a bag of dark roasted and turning the pre infusion off and droping the temp to 90C I managed to get a not too sour coffee but I got some channeling. So I guess all my shots are over extracted. I guess I'll need to upgrade my grinder and see if that helps. Thanks for another interesting video

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Hi :-). The SGP isn't the perfect pairing for the DB, in my humble opinion, but it should be an OK start. Are you making small adjustments? You say you dropped the temp to 90, what temp were you using before? If it's sourness you're tasting, under extraction, that's usually too low a temp, dropping the temp would usually increase the sourness rather than fixing it. Are you using freshly roasted beans? Cheers Kev

@ferincr 10 ай бұрын

@@Coffee_Kev Kev thanks for getting involved. Today I got my first batch of specialty coffee (so I can rule out the coffee) (I'm running out of things to blame 🤣) I dropped the temp (from 93 to 90) when I changed to dark espresso roast (that was just bitter not sour but drinkable) now that I got a bag of medium roast Geisha I went up to 94C and bumped the pre infusion again to 10 sec but it still sour. I guess the grinder is the next upgrade (hopefully soon) and anyway I'll be in London for few weeks soon so I might get some of your coffee to try when I come back (feels weird bringing coffee from the UK living in Costa Rica😂😂)

@shanewilson2152 10 ай бұрын

Hi Kev, my friend has a Brevele Barista Express, the same as me, the problem with her machine is when she makes a coffee, the pre-infusion pressure is ok, but the pressure for the main extraction barley makes it into the espresso range. Just wondering if you could help me. Ps we tried adjusting the grind size, but that didn't help.

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

What happens if you stick the backflush disk in and do a backflush, does it reach full pressure?

@shanewilson2152 10 ай бұрын

@@Coffee_Kev l shell get her to try it. Thanks Kev.

@ShaneWilson-cp4gu 10 ай бұрын

@@Coffee_Kev it only goes to the second bar on the pressure gauge

@veraduarte5218 8 ай бұрын

I have a barista express impress for a month now, and still trying to brew the perfect espresso. No easy to asjust the grinder, and im not getting a good crema.

@mauroiacuzzo3501 8 ай бұрын

I’m on the same page, still in the trial and error path trying different coffee beans, different inner grinder setup but no crema so far…

@jstones9872 10 ай бұрын

so why don't the manufactures put on the bag what the recommended grind size should be and brew times/temps??? Why leave it a mystery?

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Great idea in theory. In practise every espresso machine requires a different grind size, and grind size from one grind to another isn't universal either.

@TitanCalE 10 ай бұрын

The guy that acted like a ** in traffic this morning.. Now you know why :D

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

That may have been me, sorry, not a morning person ;-)

@embecmom5863 10 ай бұрын

mmmm I went to a top cafe in London one promoted by an ex barista champion and all of us thought the coffee was dreadful just sour, awful coffee.

@OldSkoolPGFan 10 ай бұрын

Which cafe? (just curious!)

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Please don't judge speciality coffee by just one experience, at one cafe. There are so many different reasons that what you've said could be the case. Speciality coffee comes in so many different flavour profiles, there's something literally for everyone. Cheers, Kev.

@shanewilson2152 10 ай бұрын

Ps great video 🎉

@Coffee_Kev 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! :-)

@shanewilson2152 10 ай бұрын

@@Coffee_Kev Hi Kev, me again, my friend has done a back flush on her machine. The pressure got to the second bar of the gage