Email Redux (1:33) - From Cea Smith: Kona blends (1:39) - From Stephen Chambers: Grinders for press pot coffee (5:25) - From Bruce Thayer: Aging green coffee (10:30) - Revisiting freezing roasted coffee vs buying freshly roasted coffee (18:54)
The WBC in Japan and Tim Wendelboe, 2004 WBC Champion (22:21) - Shout out to Colter Jones, the current Canadian Barista Champion (22:44) - Tim has just opened a roasting company and coffee school in downtown Oslo; he is also on the WBC Board of Directors and is currently coaching Einar Holthe (link in Norwegian), the current Norwegian Barista Champion, for the WBC (24:03) - Coffee quality around the world: the Nordic countries, Australia (26:19) - New things at the WBC this year: Bellissimo will be filming the competition, and offering DVDs of the event; an espresso bar, called "The Fourth Machine," staffed by national barista champions, will offer espresso drinks to spectators with half of the proceeds going to the SCAJ (link in English) and the other half funding a scholarship for national barista champions that lack sponsors (28:58) - Tim's and Mark's faves for the competition (34:13) - Some coverage of the WBC will be available from CG; portafilter.net will be podcasting from the event and zacharyzachary.com will offer near real time video (37:24)
Mark's New Machine - the Olympia Cremina (39:07) - Olympia Cremina 67, direct lever, manufactured in Switzerland in 1981, and restored by CG'er mogogear (39:22) - See the YouTube videos! (42:21)
Mark's Latest Pimp for his La Marzocco - Lights! (43:45) - Mark used Dioder light strips(US) from IKEA (44:57) - See pics at Flickr! (48:24) - The strips are too long for home machines, but you can try the Dioder light discs (US) for your own pimp-your-espresso-machine summer project (48:41)
Wrap Up - It's Hot in Vancouver! (49:55) - Mark gives his recipe for an iced americano using crushed ice, espresso, DaVinci sugar free chocolate syrup, and cream (50:34) - You can substitute simple syrup for chocolate; Mark gives a recipe for making your own from fructose (55:22)
Outro (56:16) - Best of luck to all the competitors at the WBC! - "The Coffee Song," Frank Sinatra
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