Coated Tongues

 We want to thank everyone that joined in the madness for Sprodown this past Friday,  including customers and follow baristas from surrounding coffee shops, and of course PACA for having us host the event. Most everyone appeared to have a great time and enjoyed this rare opportunity to compare so many espressos at once in an a 2 hour time frame. Although it felt as though our "baby" ( Synesso) got raped,  it was an amazing sight to see this many shots pulled. Rima Warren took some beautiful photos of the events. Jake was a great "espresso expeditor" amongst the somewhat organized chaos. In the end, we probably all had coated tongues and slight jitters...and as I was completely burned out and cleaning out Rich's grinder, I like an idiot , ripped his modified swift or sweep ( or whatever he called it ) in the doser thinking it was a jammed piece of paper :) luckily,everyone else's equipment left intact.

Comments

[RichW]

It was a great event - thanks for hosting it, we know it was a lot of work for you guys. Seemed like everyone had fun and learned a little bit about espresso. Frank and I had a blast working the Synesso - very nice machine. Was also a treat doing nothing but shots... that's a dream job.

Don't worry about the grinder. It's a 10 cent fix. Those velcro sweeps needed changing anyway so you did us a favor ;-)