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Announcing the Winner of Drew Barrymore's Coffee Maker

Wasn't truly expecting this video to go as wide as it did, but am glad it found an audience! 

The winner for the Made By Gather x Walmart x Drew Barrymore Beautiful Single Serve Coffee Maker was Guy R. from New Jersey, USA. Congrats / condolences to Guy!
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Coffee Candy Request & Win a Drew Barrymore Coffee Maker

Two things today!

1. I want to know what coffee-flavoured candy is out there. What do you like and what do you hate? What should I try? I hope to find out about a bunch of options from across the world with your help, and will try to get my hands on them to taste. Here's a Google Form where...

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Live stream!

Stream with sound!

Do click through to YouTube so that we can interact in the chat!

See you soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-9jJbjFgk

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Livestream this Friday

It's been a while! We want to stream more this year.

Throw some comments down here if there's anything in particular you want to see, otherwise we'll brew some decaf and hang out. 

The livestream will be this Friday, January 26th at 2024-01-24 11:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Announcing Winners for the Espressos Grinders Under £500

We drew seven winners from the Gleam contest on January 10th and sent out emails to all seven winners. We've just finished hearing back from everyone with confirmations so we can now announce the wins:

  • Jörg from Germany won the Eureka Oro Mignon
  • Minna from Finland won the Ba...

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The Full Chris Hendon Interview

Hi everyone! Here's the full interview I did with Chris Hendon about his work on static in grinders, and about why he's interested in it in the first place (and a little bit more about some exciting work he's doing for the next paper). 

You'll notice it is now on a second channel, whic...

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Win An Espresso Grinder

This one has been a long time coming! 

We've created a contest to win the seven grinders featured in my comparison video of espresso grinders under £500. The video will come out tomorrow, but the contest is now open to entries. The grinders are: Baratza Sette 270, Timemore 064S, Niche...

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The BTS/Extra Videos

Hi all! I wanted to write a little post to ask your opinion about something. We're working on finishing up the edit of the full interview I did with Chris Hendon for the recent video on RDT and triboelectrification. (It's 40 minutes long and has some super interesting stuff in it, including infor...

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New Cappuccino and Pourover Tier Discount Codes

Hello!

There are new discount codes for your tiers from today onwards! There'll be a matching post locked to the Espresso tier, as their code is slightly different to yours, so don't worry that there'll be a post you can't access. (This just prevents codes getting mixed up and you missi...

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New Square Mile Coffee Discount Code

Hello!

There is a new Square Mile Coffee Roasters discount code for my Patreon members which gives you 10% off bags of coffee from the UK Square Mile shop or the​ Rest of the World/ 2023-12-11 16:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Tony's BTS

Just a little bit of the nonsense from my recent dressing up and being a little silly.

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BTS Photos From The Live Show

Here are a few photos from the Live Vintage Coffee Liqueur Show, capturing (I suspect) a few of you lot too. (Don't feel the need to identify yourselves if you don't want to!).

It was a fun night, and there's no real BTS video footage and shockingly little in the way of bloopers. (We'll dou...

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A Live Stream!

Come and hang out!

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Patreon Livestream this Friday

Hello! I thought it would be great to have a Patreon-only livestream for you all and will be setting this up for this Friday, October 13th at 

  • 4pm UK-time
  • 8am Pacific Time
  • 11am Eastern Time
  • ...

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Vintage Coffee Liqueur Tickets Now Live!

Tickets for the vintage coffee liqueur tasting are now live!

Here's the link to the tickets page.

There's a bit more info about the event, as well as about each t...

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Live Event Ticket Details

Hi all,

As mentioned previously, we're going to be doing a live event in London in October. I can now confirm the date will be October 10th. The event will take place in East London around 7pm. (Location details will be given closer to the time, but fair to presume Hackney).

We're goi...

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The September Update

Hello lovely people!

Now that the studio move is done (though you'll see the set continue to evolve for a while), and we're starting to film more regularly again, I also wanted to start giving some updates on what's going on here in case you would find it interesting.

Part of the new ...

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Announcing the Manument winner

Hello! We have drawn the winner of the Manument Leva machine and have received a reply from them by email confirming that they would like to accommodate it into their life.
The winner was Diego from Spain - congratulations to them!

Here's a link to the 2023-09-07 12:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post

SQM Discount Code and Manument Last Call

Two quick things:

We're going to close the Manument competition at midnight UK time tonight, because we'll be posting the video tomorrow (at 2pm UK time). If you haven't entered and want to then the link is 2023-09-05 12:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post

SQM Discount and Last Call for Manument

Two quick things:

We're going to close the Manument competition at midnight UK time tonight, because we'll be posting the video tomorrow (at 2pm UK time). If you haven't entered and want to then the link is 2023-09-05 12:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Win a Manument Leva Machine

Hello everyone! I hope you've had a good summer.

The Manument lever machine will be the subject of my next video and we wanted to give you access to this contest before the video comes out. I didn't want the contest to go live after the video, in order to leverage a high value item to ...

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Secret Director's Commentary - The Barisieur

I don't miss DVDs, but I do miss the director's commentaries on DVDs. If you feel the same - good news!

YouTube recently released a feature called MLA (Multi-Language Audio). This was intended to be used for me to upload foreign language dubs to my videos. This is something that is interest...

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New Cappuccino and Pourover Tier Codes

Hello everyone! Here's a couple of updated discount codes for you.

For your tiers, there is a new Square Mile discount code active from now until the end of August. This can be used on purchases of bags of coffee as well as my new book from the View Post

New Square Mile Code for Patrons

Hello! There is a new Square Mile Discount code valid from today until the end of August for all patrons to use. This will apply a 10% discount to individual bags of coffee in your cart but I'm afraid it won't work towards other purchases like equipment or subscriptions of coffee deliveries. This...

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Announcing the xBloom winner

Happy Friday to you!

The winner for the xBloom contest has been drawn and the machine will be headed towards Peter K. from the USA! Congrats to Peter, we've been in touch by email and have received delivery details so we'll be shipping it out next week.

On Gleam we ha...

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Win an xBloom machine

Many thanks for your understanding on my last post, I really appreciate the grace you've extended to me in this period. 

We've created a contest to win the xBloom coffee machine from last week's video. Here is the link if you're interested to enter:

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Pausing the Patreon

Hi everyone!

I wanted to write a little update about why I'm pausing the Patreon and hopefully answer some questions preemptively.

You might have noticed a bit of a drop in the frequency of videos recently. This is primarily down to the fact that we're building out a new location for ...

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Announcing the winner of the modified Faemina

Hello! A quick announcement to share that the winner of the modified Faemina contest was Florian from Germany. We've been in touch by email and have received delivery details so will be shipping it out this week.

In response to our question 'What's another modification you'...

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A poll about a grinder comparison video format

Hi! A bit of an odd one today, but we've been talking about the structure of the upcoming video covering the best espresso grinder under £500. We could structure the review in two ways, and I'm really interested in your preferences.

There are seven different grinders in the comparison, and...

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Announcing Toy, CoffeeJack, and Clearout winners

Hello! I hope you're all well and enjoying your coffee this week. Thanks for your patience with this one, we can now share the names of the contest winners for you:

The COFFEEJACK winners were:

  • Tom from Singapore
  • David from the USA

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