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Little update - did 20g for a 400ml mug and it came out beautiful. The flavours are less overwhelming and have a more delicate taste.

I’m using aeropress. Used 20g of coffee for a 300mlish mug.

Mine arrived today. Couldn’t resist trying a cup even though they should probably rest. I’ll not mention anything until people have had a bit more chance to get/try them and until I’ve got a good brew going.

Glad it’s not just me finding this is a bit of a machine choker! Just tried 18.8g in 39g out in around 32secs. Tasted lovely.

I’ll give that recipe a go. Need to get mine dialed in.

Merry Christmas everyone. finally opened my first bag of Drop and brewed with Aeropress. I used around 18/19g of coffee and it’s made an incredibly light feeling coffee as I do brew quite weak for a morning brew sometimes (19g: 450ml water). It has a really sweet taste and like it has some citrus tones too - maybe orange? A really refreshing cup and one I will certainly be trying with a stronger brew ratio to really get some flavours out.

Thanks for that, I've never really paid attention to actual time making the drink. It just seems to take me longer - I'm not sure whether I'm fussing too much for a morning drink.

I've recently found myself only really drinking Aeropress coffee. I like espresso drinks but I'm not a huge milk drinker so find the process lengthy for essentially the same drink I could have in a minute or two. Are there anyways to spice up my espresso routine or to make it a little simpler? I'm currently using a Gaggia Classic and a Saeco Pro grinder. P.s I haven't mentioned this near my partner as I have my allocated space. Don't want to relinquish that if I don't need to!

A slightly random request here but does anyone know of anywhere in the UK that sells or would sell straight up coffee fruit berries? I'm a primary school teacher and we're doing about the Maya people. I'd love to take in a coffee fruit berry as we're looking to do a food tasting. It seems like everyone does the extract but not the fruit itself.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I think a timer to turn the machine on may help. I think the issue with espresso for me for me is that I can’t do anything else whilst I’m making it. With my Aeropress I can make my breakfast at the same time. Got pretty fast at it now!

I've been struggling recently with making espresso drinks as I don't have time in a morning to make one but I don't drink coffee in the evening (it really effects my sleep!) I make a lot of aeropress or filter coffee as I can normally crack one out in about 5-10 minutes. Are there any other methods that are equally easy to do that provide great results - or is there a way I can attempt to squeeze an espresso into my coffee routine. Haven't felt like I can post as much recently as I basically make the same coffee every morning! (I do enjoy it though!)

Slowly getting better. Was the first shot with a new bean so unfortunately the espresso shot wasn't the best.

I have a Gaggia classic and had the same issue as you Silky. Even when I don't change any variables my pour times with the same grind on a naked and spouted portafilter are quite drastically different. I find I always have to grind finer for a naked filter than for a spouted one. No matter what I tried it resulted in the same outcome. Still not sure why.

I've been experimenting recently with different Aeropress filter combinations and wondered what others used. I didn't realise until recently there was such a big difference between paper and metal filters and currently I prefer the metal filter for a cleaner taste (albeit less clean cup!) Do you have a particular combination, multiple filters, filter sandwich?

This seems to replicate the tastes I'm consistently getting on pour over and aeropress. Loving it!