Guides
Most guides describe the destination — "microfoam", "wet paint", "glossy milk" — and almost none describe what your hands are actually doing. That gap is where beginners get stuck, and they nearly all get stuck in exactly the same way.
Julien Mercier
Guides
When a shot finishes in twelve seconds, or takes a full minute to fill the cup, the reflex is always the same: go back to the grinder. Sometimes that is the right answer. Often it is not — and adjusting the grind at that moment actively makes things worse. Flow rate is not a fault in itself. It...
Camille Laurent
Guides
Roast level is almost always framed as a taste question. Light if you like acidity, dark if you like body, medium if you would rather not commit. That is true, and it is the least useful half of the answer, because it says nothing about what happens inside the grinder and the basket.
Élodie Fontaine
Guides
An espresso is two weights and a stopwatch. The weight of ground coffee going into the portafilter, the weight of liquid landing in the cup, and how long that takes. The relationship between the first two is the brew ratio — the single most useful number in home espresso, and the one almost...
Julien Mercier
News
The date that matters is 30 December 2026, not December 2024, not June 2025, not January 2026: those deadlines still sit on live roaster pages, and they're stale. Coffee and deforestation are governed by a single European text now, the EUDR, whose calendar has moved twice in three years,...
Julien Mercier
Guides
The rule everyone repeats fits on one line. Sour means under-extracted, bitter means over-extracted. It's correct, and it isn't enough. It leaves out the two cases that keep people going in circles for weeks: the shot that's sour and bitter at once, and the shot that stays bitter whatever you...
Camille Laurent
News
Two coffee brands are already listed in the IFA Berlin 2026 exhibitor catalogue. JURA, no surprise there. And KAXFREE, a KALERM group brand almost nobody outside the trade has heard of.
Élodie Fontaine
Guides
Ask what grind size espresso needs and someone will tell you to set it to 12. That is the one answer that cannot work, because a click number describes nothing universal — it describes where a collar sits on one specific grinder, with its own burrs and its own zero point. The question you...
Élodie Fontaine
News
The World Barista Championship 2026 lands in Panama City from 22 to 25 October, at the Panama Convention Center. It's the first time the competition has been held in a coffee-producing country in Central America, after roughly a quarter century of history.
Camille Laurent
Guides
A manual coffee grinder at €69 (Amazon.fr, checked 8 August 2026) puts nearly its whole price into the burrs. No motor. No housing, no timer, no plastic hopper. Two pieces that cut the bean, a shaft, a crank. That is the real argument for the category, and it holds up fine. The problem is the one...
Élodie Fontaine
Guides
Coffee bean prices are not rising any more. They already rose, and the bill landed in 2025: over that single year, the French consumer price index for coffee gained 17.8%. Since January 2026 it has barely moved at all. So your bag costs roughly what it cost six months ago, except that "roughly"...
Julien Mercier
Guides
If you're after a new bean-to-cup coffee machine in 2026, this isn't a year of upheaval. It's a year when two manufacturers moved, Jura and De'Longhi, while everyone else re-listed the same catalogue. Five Jura announcements between February and March, a new De'Longhi flagship at €1,399, and a...
Julien Mercier
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