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!
Guy was one of those who correctly answered the Gleam question For which movie did Drew Barrymore win an MTV award for Best Kiss? which was, of course, The Wedding S...
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 you can tell us all about your suggestions:
https://forms.gle/UZeEXE9LeQ9gEgWd6
2. Today's video is a review ...
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
2024-01-26 15:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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 3pm UK time for an hour
We will pos...
2024-01-24 11:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe 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:
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, which is newly minted. On there you'll find some older BTS videos that were originally released just for the top tier. They'll still get those videos early but eventually they'll end up here. Other things...
2023-12-21 21:32:29 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 Zero, Eureka Oro Mignon, Solo DF64 Gen 2, Lagom Mini, and the Mahlkönig X54.
Here is the link if you're interested to enter:
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 information about what he's working on next!)
For that video, the intention is to make it available to all Patreon supporters, because I want to share the information we collected. I might then relea...
2023-12-13 16:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
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 missing out on discounts on things like books!)
The new Square Mile Coffee Roasters discount code for you is active from today until the end of February and will give you 10% off purchases of ba...
2023-12-11 16:37:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
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/ EU Square Mile shop. I'm afraid it won't work towards other products like subscriptions, merch, or equipment.
I hope you enjoy trying some new co...
2023-12-11 16:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a little bit of the nonsense from my recent dressing up and being a little silly.
2023-11-28 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 double check though)
Thanks again to everyone who came and took a gamble on their evening for, what was for us, a giant experiment. We all really enjoyed the event and it has made me want to get am...
2023-10-26 11:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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
I'll post a new link on Patreon just before I go live, but wanted to give you all a heads up.
2023-10-11 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTickets 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 ticket. We'll share the exact location about a week beforehand, but there's enough specificity to hopefully make travel plans easy enough!
I look forward to seeing a few of you there!
2023-09-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHi 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 going to film a video that is a tasting of 5 vintage coffee liqueurs from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 4pm. There'll be two types of tickets on offer:<...
2023-09-25 12:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 studio's space is an area that is dedicated to testing equipment. Previously we were doing it in the set, which made filming more difficult and testing more difficult too - especially when we had more...
2023-09-08 13:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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 Manument review video in case you haven't come across it yet. Looking forward to making and sharing more videos with you soon!
2023-09-07 12:18:41 +0000 UTC View PostTwo 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 here.
Secondly, there's a new discount code for Patreon members, which gives you 10% off coffee (this excludes subscriptions, equipment and merch, I'm afraid)
Your new code is: PATR...
2023-09-05 12:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostTwo 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 here.
Secondly, there's a new discount code for Patreon members. There'll be a matching post locked to the Espresso tier, as their code is slightly different to yours, so don't worry that...
2023-09-05 12:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 push folks to join the Patreon, so wanted to make this available to those of you who are here now. Here is the link to enter the contest:
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 interesting, but my first thought was that I could upload any audio I wanted, so I made a commentary track for this video as an experiment.
To enable it, you have to select the audio track "Engl...
2023-07-01 20:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello 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 UK & Rest of World Square Mile shop or the EU Square Mile shop. (The other Square Mil...
2023-06-07 10:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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 code is available for all tiers of my Patreon supporters to use on the UK & Rest of World Square Mile shop or the 2023-06-07 09:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 had asked What’s the future of filter coffee at home? and loved this response:
"A robot butler who has perfected the craft of pour overs—even and high extraction, ideal drawdown time, pe...
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:
https://gleam.io/ZOmC8/win-an-xbloom-machine
2023-05-22 12:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi 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 the studios/offices etc and this has soaked up a lot of our collective resources. We took an empty shell, and we've been building out a space that should allow us to make videos way more easily and al...
2023-05-16 12:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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'd like to see on a machine like this?' Florian's answer was "Better temperature control for the boiler" and we did have to agree there.
Looking forward to publishing a video this week (...
2023-05-09 12:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi! 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 here's how we think the video could flow:
A). Category comparison. Here we take one category (let's say build or UX/UI or espresso quality), and then we run through how each of the seven perfor...
2023-04-27 15:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello! 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:
The Coffee Toy winners were:
