MVM

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What a machine 👌

Life's full of surprises. A very last minute installation for our Belgian partners at .be - what a beauty she is! This Nexus was installed in the dessert bar aboard a cruise ship of all places! Yet another great project that's actively reshaping the public perception of what coffee can be.

The first step is usually to have a fun idea that you love. The second step is to figure out how to make it happen! If you have great people around you the rest will fall into place.

was born out of a love for great coffee and a desire to share this love with others. It's been a pleasure to have been involved.

Opening a horeca business isn't easy and it has a steep learning curve. Thankfully I've been fortunate enough to be able to pass on over a decade of thoughts, ideas and experiences with Mo and Ines to take some of the weight off of their shoulders.

Stop by, say hi, have a coffee and always support small local businesses with big ideas.

Preventative Maintenance. If there was ever just one rule to follow when owning an espresso machine it's this. Catch potential problems before the problems catch you!

This machine in particular was made in 2016 and has never had a descale. Although it's always been fed filtered water it still doesn't guarantee an existence free of mineral build up.

Look after your machines and they will look after you.

Fun install of the new .swiss Touch 04 batch brewer at in Amsterdam! Big brother to the Touch 03. Featuring advanced boilerless technology, 16g / s flow rate and the ability to brew up to 4L at a time repeatedly.

It's been a strong week of with new installations and looking after existing customers left right and centre. Very happy to have as my all things water partner!

Over at doing a monthly deep clean of their My85’s. Always helping to keep extractions consistently high with helping to keep track of the numbers 💪

Another day another little descale session. A bit more intricate this time around.

When things aren’t running right you need to inspect the entire path of water. Starting from the inlet and working towards the group head itself. Only then can you truly work out where the issue is. Otherwise you’re just gambling. In this case it was a combination of things.

Inlet pipes, Solenoid plungers, flow Restrictors and Flowmeters all had small traces of mineral deposits present - just enough to cause more than 4 seconds of variation from one group to the next.

All sorted now though after a thorough cleaning 🤙

Have you ever wondered why your shot times aren’t matching up? Your technique and puck prep is on point and you weigh your dose but nothing seems to help?

Then perhaps it’s not you but your machine that’s at fault.

Plus or minus a second or two isn’t the end of the world. But when group one pulls a beautiful extraction in 28 seconds and group two gives you a 10 second dribble then maybe there’s something deeper going on.

Most espresso machines have a flow meter. A little device that measures the volume of water going through your group head.
- Water goes in one way
- It then spins an impeller (picture 2)
- The electrical part of the flowmeter then counts how many times the impeller rotates based on the magnets embedded (picture 3)
- These rotations are then be translated into pulses, grams or millilitres.

After some time mineral deposits build up due to hard water. These deposits then bond to the metals inside of your machine and restrict the flow of water. As you can see in picture 1 and 3 there is some mineral build up!

Thankfully this is an easy fix however a competent technician is required 🙋‍♂️ But remember the flow meter is just one of a handful of things which could be causing this kind of issue.

So next time your groups aren’t matching, and it’s not user error, feel free to reach out and we’ll get them matching up again in no time at all 🫡

Hard working machines deserve to be looked after.

Just like changing your tires and having a service your coffee grinders also need to be serviced.

is a great example of how to look after equipment. Regular cleaning, check ups and burr changes are standard practice here.

This all helps to deliver the cleanest tasting shots.

Look after your equipment and your equipment will look after you 😉