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Make Coffee Like a Champion with Gwilym Davies

December 31, 2014 By Michael Leave a Comment

Gwilym DaviesIf your New Year’s Resolution is learning how to make coffee from a world barista champion, you’re in luck. A new video series from Gwilym Davies and European Coffee Trip offers just that opportunity. Davies is the 2009 World Barista Champion and co-founder of London’s Prufrock Coffee. These days Davies is running a barista training center outside of Prague, which doubles as a film studio for this series of instructional videos.  Over the course of the series, Gwilym breaks down the fundamentals of espresso preparation, including dosing, tamping, and equipment maintenance. The series is being released in installments, so be sure to sign up for notifications for when each video is released. With more and more resources like this becoming available for baristas worldwide, we can only expect 2015 to be the best year for specialty coffee yet.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: European Coffee Trip, Gwilym Davies, Prague

Cafe Review: Prufrock Coffee in London

August 26, 2013 By Michael Leave a Comment

Prufrock Coffee espresso machine

Coffee as Poetry

In The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot famously wrote, “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” Most Eliot interpreters understand the line to denote the protagonist’s disillusion with the monotonousness of modern society. I certainly don’t claim to be a literary critic, but a life measured out in spoons from London’s Prufrock Coffee wouldn’t be too …

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Filed Under: Coffee Shop Reviews Tagged With: coffee, Gwilym Davies, London, Prufrock Coffee

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