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Read about the rise of filter coffee with Lars in the new Specialty Coffee Melbourne book which was launched last week by Smudge Eats.  Copies of this beautiful book will be available for purchase shortly. https://smudgeeats.com/rise-filter-coffee-lars-engdahl-nord-coffee/  

At the beginning of each morning, a barista will "dial in" coffee to an espresso machine. This involves a bit of guess work: coffee doesn't taste the same day to day, or even over the course of the day for that matter. Dialling in comprises of fiddling with the size of ground coffee, the amount of ground coffee, and tamping pressure to name a few. An optimum balance is found that extracts the best possible flavours of the coffee, just in time for the line of snoozy customers after their caffeine fix.  Now that everything is up and running, and...