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Sovereign Lodge Town of 1770

The Town of 1770 is a very special place to us. We discovered this little gem of a town, with the nicest people you could ever meet, over 10 years ago. My Dad and his partner Dorothy, who are here from Canada for a few weeks were very keen to see the Great Barrier Reef [...]

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How to take your Presso apart for cleaning and repair

A great little how to video from Koh & Co in New York. Makes you want to tap your toes and do some Presso Cleaning.

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Baby Food Tamper

Thanks or sending this to us Brett Ryan. Very innovative. As a prize for your creativity we are going to sending you one of our new K49 tampers hand made in New Zealand. Congratulations. Alison and Greg

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Presso Blend

Shipping them out

We are very proud to announce that the Presso Blend is now available. To get the most out of your presso it is very important to ensure you use the freshly roasted and ground coffee. Our Presso blend is hand crafted, hand packed, uniquely selected coffee, roasted with love by an Artisan Roaster in Byron [...]

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Stocked up for Christmas

Alison and David putting in the last box

We are very excited to have just received our largest shipment to date. Just in time too..we were sold out for the 3rd time this year. A special thanks to all of our patient presso people who have been very understanding. Here are a few photos from our pick up and unloading yesterday. A big [...]

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Tabaso Bottle Tamper

John Cayler Custom Tamper

There is nothing better then customer feedback. Note that I did not qualify what the flavour of the feedback is. Good or bad, happy or sad, we are always glad to hear from our customers. Here is a perfect example of the type of unsolicited input and ideas we get. Last week I got into [...]

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Milton Moon Ceramic Japanese Cup

Milton Moon Thank You Again

Our cup runneth over. Today we got the most lovely wrapped parel in the mail. Brown paper, binder twine and calligraphy writing in black ink. “What could this beautiful package have in it?” When I got home and showed Alison she knew at once it was from our lovely friend Milton Moon. We can’t wait [...]

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Porlex Tamper Boot for Presso

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A tool is only as good as the person using it

There is a saying that a tool is only as good as the person using it. This notion has inspired me to produce some helpful content for people interested in getting the most from their Presso Espresso maker and our associated coffee products. In the spirit of my mantra: fire, aim, ready here is a [...]

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Morning Grind

Once again I take my hat off to Alison for her commitment to the products we sell. When I was away in the Daintree last month, Al retired our big 1950′s grinder, well it kind of retired itself to be honest, and started to use the porlex everyday. Wow what a difference the precision hand [...]

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