Green Coffee Buying Club
Coffee Discussion boards => Hardware & Equipment => Topic started by: EricBNC on October 09, 2011, 02:23:39 PM
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I found time to play around with adjusting the OPV on a Gaggia Classic using my Silvano as a benchmark. A perfect method? probably not. Pretty close? Taste does not lie - same beans, dose, and grind produced similar tastes and near identical flow patterns. I think the Classic is dialed now.
Here is what some Velton's Bonsai Blend looks like (ignore the dirty glass - it was working overtime this afternoon):
A little tight using my LaPavoni PBC sample grinder:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/s3k3rp.jpg)
Loosened up a bit - was Guinness while pulling - by the time I got my camera out again it had settled a bit:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/hukpqg.jpg)
It ran blond at the very end - look at that blight on an otherwise perfectly flecked crema top:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/27zawid.jpg)