When we hit Bundaberg I asked Dorothy if she could pick out a nice place to stay and she shouted out the phone number for Sovereign Lodge and within 5 minutes the lovely Mara had us booked into the only room they had for a couple of days. This morning as we were packing up and cranking out a few coffees from their lovely room the owners Trevor and Lindy got very excited about the Presso. We have left a couple of Presso Espresso machines behind and are excited to have reconnected with Agnes Water and the town of 1770. Presso on the go–it’s the only way to travel.

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

Our Presso blend is hand crafted, hand packed, uniquely selected coffee, roasted with love by an Artisan Roaster in Byron Bay.

An amazing bold and rich espresso blend with hints of chocolate, butterscotch, indian spice and earth, thick syrupy mouth feel, beautiful as a black or milk coffee.

25% Sulawesi Bukit Marante – washed
25% Brazil Rio Verde – natural
25% Ethiopia Harar – natural
25% Colombia Supremo – natural

Here is a perfect example of the type of unsolicited input and ideas we get. Last week I got into some back and forthing with John Cayler from the United States. John bought a presso and let me know he thought our shipping terms and pricing were a bit confusing. I thanked him for his comments and revised our wording and process–which I had to admit was a big improvement. Thank you John.

Today, I got another email from “dear john” and this time it was about our plastic tamper that comes with the presso. John let us know nicely that it left a little to be desired and referred to our free tamper scoop as a “thumb buster”. Point taken again. More points for John too, as he let us know he has discovered an innovative way to tamp using a Tabasco bottle. Can’t wait to give this a try, but we dont’ suggest using chilli sauce in your espresso.

John Cayler Custom Tamper

When I got home and showed Alison she knew at once it was from our lovely friend Milton Moon. We can’t wait to have our morning presso from this hand made cup. Thanks so much Milton and if anyone is interested in having a look at Milton’s work here is a link to his gallery

Milton Moon Thank You Again

Casting the right sort of people to demonstrate is key. Now let me see who do I know that likes to be the centre of attention and loves to be on the opposite end of a camera? Me, me, pick me… No, No pick Moe. Morley one of our four daughters is perfect for the job. This morning we had a go at taking some preliminary photos and video showing how the Porlex Hand Grinder works.

Here are a few of the action porlex pics. In the first shot Morley is carefully filling the porlex using the combination scoop tamper that comes with the Presso. In the second photo you can see Morley using proper  body position –straight back and serious demeanour to make sure the beans know you  mean business. Thanks Moe. More to come. I think we are onto a winning forumla here.