Marco has been a fan of undercounter technology for years stretching from our Oceanic range right through to our Uberboiler, Ecoboiler and Ecosmart undercounter ranges. The space saving potential opens up a wave of new possibilities as it frees up counter space to do more and we’re always interested in [...]

This years Irish Aeropress Championship is happening at Roasted Brown Thursday the 11th of April 2013 and the winner will be flown to Melbourne to represent Ireland at the World Aeropress Championships in May.  Details below: Maximum of 18 competitors. Entry fee is €20 payable in advance (send cheques made [...]

Marco will be launching a brand new coffee brewer at Catex in February so we thought it might be a good idea to do a blog on it… Having already established our Filtro pour and serve brewer as one of the best-selling small batch brewers on the European market we [...]

The hot beverage industry requires liquid to be heated. Heating liquid consumes energy. Energy is expensive and getting more expensive all the time. In general heating costs follow oil costs. These have been on a steady trajectory upward for quite some time. Energy cost trends, recent recessionary pressures, corporate social [...]

Vince Fedele of VST, the coffee industry leader in brewing measurement devices, amongst other things, delivered a very notable talk at the Nordic Barista Cup last weekend. Go to the NBC site to see a video of his talk. The key subject of twitterdom and indeed the talk of NBC [...]

If you have a Coffee Refractometer I encourage you to visit this site and take part in a brewing study. The principle of the study is that multiple participants can submit and evaluate their own brews (following the experimental procedure), and that collectively the data may (re)define taste preference and/or [...]

The Uber Project, encompassing the Uber Boiler, Grinder and related projects are intended to function as frequently upgraded, constantly improved, collaborative efforts between our R&D team and members of the coffee industry. That was the genesis of the project, and it is where would like to see its future remain. [...]

Our good friends the Baratzas recently sent us a full set of their grind profiles for us to geek out on. For each grinder they analysed settings at the finest, at the coarsest and at a median level. Some surprises, some things we very much expected. First up the Maestro. [...]