1 Fun Thing
The Yungas Road in Bolivia is nicknamed the ‘Road of Death’ and is a 60km stretch with 3500 metres of descent! It attracts ~25,000 tourists a year, especially for downhill biking, and is a popular attraction for those visiting La Paz.
3 Coffee Facts
Subminimal just announced the Nanofoamer PRO on Kickstarter. This product claims to heat and create perfectly textured milk with little to no human intervention, and while we have no affiliation whatsoever with the company, we can’t wait to test it as a consumer later this year.
The Cup Of Excellence is an annual coffee competition to determine the highest quality coffees and is often viewed as the most prestigious. It is organised by Alliance for Coffee Excellence, which was founded by George Howell (entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of the specialty coffee movement), Susie Spindler and Silvio Leite. The national winners of participating countries compete internationally, resulting in each of the “Top 10” coffees being cupped at least 120 times. The winners are then auctioned for purchase online. Not every coffee producing country competes in the CoE.
Flat burr grinders benefit from alignment which is basically ensuring that the 2 burrs are as parallel to each other as possible and the distant between them is even throughout the circumference. The simplest way to check this is using the marker test.