Chivalry Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 33 Location: UK Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Izzo Vivi Grinder: Eureka Mignon
Posted Sat Dec 22, 2012, 4:26am Subject: returning to coffee... but bitter!!
Ok,, so its been a couple of years since ive manage to use my espresso machine (2 new young boys and lack of space!!)
So i have fairly decent kit... an Izzo vivi, and i just treated myself yesterday to an Eureka Mignon... :)
So spent last night doing a full descale and clean... got everything done.. or so i think... filled and emptied the tank about 5 times to get rid of any descaler... and so far have pulled about 10 shots through it while i dial the grinder in...
Got my pull time to 25/26 secs so about bang on... a fresh bag of pre roasted stuff i picked up from Bella Barista...
But so BITTER?
am i missing something? i know its been a while.. but my old shots were never this bitter... do i need to flush the machine even more?? or is there something else im missing?
Chivalry Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 33 Location: UK Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Izzo Vivi Grinder: Eureka Mignon
Posted Sat Dec 22, 2012, 5:00am Subject: Re: returning to coffee... but bitter!!
hmmm. well i can assume that as i am getting 25-26 sec pulls the tamp and grind are about right..... takes about 8 secs from flipping the lever till i start to see coffee coming through..
Crema isnt blonding,,,, if anything it seems a little dark,? but loads of it and perfect texture..
Boiler temp... mmmm possibly? the pressure reading is alternating from 1.2 to 1.35 as the boiler kicks on and off... seem about right it think?
Havent backflushed with pulycaf yet but i assumed the numerous backflushes i did while descaling would have removed the majority of stuff? or do i need to do a few backflushes with pulycaf in addition to descaling?
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