Now I need to figure out the difference between sour and bitter. Is this ph?

Helpful! Simplifying what can be so confusing for a beginner.

I had a subscription with 1kg a month for a year of Elevate and can confirm that it’s a delicious coffee with milk.

correct me if im wrong, ratio and grinding are basically same thing, both done meaning to change the brew pressure. Maybe consider temperature as the 2nd parameter

Can you add how to change temperature to change your flavors?

How do you overcome sour-bitter confusion?

Changing a ratio from 1:2 to 1:1.8 is an increase of the ratio (of coffee grind weight to yield weight), not a decrease. So maybe it would be better to write 'decrease relative amount of water' instead of 'decrease ratio'. Also, in the example, it's not 40g extracted but 40g yield (liquid in the cup). You can't extract 40g from 20g of coffee. So to beginners this version of the coffee compass might be confusing.

Thank you

The link to Espresso compass on the website are dead

It makes sense, but why adjust more than one dimension at a time? Just don't add those diagonal cases.

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Came to this 3 years later but wanted to say this is great! It really helped me

No need to tamp if your leveler is set to the proper depth.

Gonna print these out and leave them at bad coffee shops

Love the explanation and visual. Makes a lot of sense! Time to dial in my sour expresso from this morning 😂!!

The download link for the compass is broken on the site. Would you be able to fix it?

Quick and easy explanation to help dial in. Love it!

Great coffee and great advice

Thanks!!!

Yes👌 Got excactly the same setup, and i LOVE it

I came here looking for information on Cascara Sagrada, the herb. I had no idea there is a tea with a similar name. Thanks.

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And what if the espresso taste salty ? What should i do?

I don’t have a distribution tool yet. Just want to say I will try tapping on the back of the portafilter with my hand to see if that will work better in leveling the espresso.

Great compass

Would it work with Breville Dual Boiler ?

I am thinking about getting this machine the main problem which color to go for!

4 minutes of reading texts on a single picture... omg...

Thank you for sharing. I find it easy to understand and very practical to follow.

Hi.. Can I know what grinder you grind the coffee bean you show in the video? Appreciate that you can answer my question.

I don’t tamp anymore. It works better.

Mark at Whole Latte doesn't tamp with his current distribution tool, is that doing something different or is he doing it wrong? 🤔

best guide and make me cofidence to dial in espresso thank great video sir .

Too deep or too much coffee, where it kind of caves in, is what I think is occurring with mine. I only see it though after extraction in the wet puck, not right after being ground. After using the jack leveler, I get extraction down the center of the portafilter coming out first vs all around the puck. I am using the IMS Nanotech brew screen. I will try the shallow setting. Thanks for the tips! I hope it works, im out of 4 lbs of coffee trying to figure this out.

Lots of discussion from roasters, machine sales and espresso pages saying distributor only can work. Have you tried?

What’s tea?

I'll just say this is first comment by on this amazing video. Thank you good people, now all we have to do is to share it 🙃 Grazie!!!!

This is just amazing... Great job good people! Greetings from Ireland!

This is very helpful. Thank you so much!!

The Linea - doesn't ramp up but can adjust through the app - the preinfusion time. It is only a switch. The GS3MP has a manual paddle. They are both great machines. Nice review.

Level up? It‘s a huge huge step spending 1-2k for a home espresso machine to spending well over 4k not even counting the grinder. It‘s more a giant leap few are willing to do to get maybe a better espresso.

I thought the paddle on the Mini is not for ramping up the pressure/ flow control. It’s just an on/off switch designed (misleading) as a paddle.

I notice you don't get any coffee grinds on the sides of your baskets. I have La Marzocco LM baskets which have ridges on the border and there are always grinds stuck in there that I need to scrape off. Are ridgeless filter baskets better for any other reason?