Thank you for your comments on my last post. I'll be thinking about how best to incorporate the suggestions made moving forwards and very much appreciate your support.
In the meantime, there are contest winners to announce:
110V Kettles:
Hi everyone. I thought this video was a pretty good time to write something about the channel and future plans, and it is a bit of a long one. Also I should answer the question you might have about today’s video: “Why did you make this?!”
If you haven’t seen it yet, then I’d probably recommend watching before continuing on:
https://youtu.be/UALN1ZoN6bA
The Short Answer:
Honestly i...
Hope you are all doing well. There are three contests for you this time!
We decided to run two separate temperature-controlled kettle contests based on available models in separate voltages:
https://gleam.io/5NDmi/win-a-220v-temperaturecontrolled-electric-kettle
A couple of announcements for your Thursday today:
The DF64 grinder was won by Anders in Denmark!
There is an updated Square Mile discount code, as it renews every three months. Unlike the Tens Hundreds Thousands code, which is tier specific and found in a previous post from last year, the Square Mile code is open to all of you. It will work for bags of coffee, not merch or subscriptions I'm afraid, but I hope it is useful and delicious for you!
The new Squa...
2021-07-01 08:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I hope you are enjoying your June as best as you can. We’ve now heard back from all five winners so I can confirm where the under £1,500 machines are heading to.
The winners are:
Thank you all for your continued support for the channel. This one is for those of you who enjoy hacking and modifying your coffee equipment:
2021-06-11 15:53:57 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you interested in one of the espresso machines below for your home, here are links to submit your entry in the contests to win these machines:
A quick update! The 5 AeroPress winners and the 8 AeroPress accessory winners have all been contacted and we have now heard back from all of them.
AeroPresses are on their way to:
AeroPress accessories are headed to:
You may remember I made a video a while back about Taika, who I work with.
Two things:
They're now shipping shelf-stable product anywhere in the US. If you use code JAMES you get 20% off anything and everything, and shipping on orders over $65 is free.
While they do a mix...
2021-04-30 13:59:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe weren't sure when the day would come, but the AeroPress series has arrived and is now somehow almost over! I have two contests linked here, one to enter if you'd like to win one of the AeroPress accessories I tested and the other from which 5 Patrons will be drawn to win an AeroPress - for those who don't already have one!
Here are the contest links:
https://gleam.io/iqZWO/win-an-aeropress<...
Hello everyone!
Here are announcements for contests that have recently closed from the last three product videos:
Hello all you lovely patrons!
While some discounts, like the one for Tens Hundreds Thousands, are tier specific the Square Mile discount code is open to all. It renews every three months.
Here it is:
PATREONPAU2010
It works for bags of coffee, not for merch or subscriptions I'm afraid, but I hope it is useful and delicious!
*Edited for a typo in the code, sorry! Thank you for catching it quickly and to Tom and Maxime for trying to spread th...
2021-04-06 12:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Hope you are enjoying absurdity in your week so far. This post holds links to two contests you can enter enter to win one of the six interesting brewers and the Bripe.
*NB: For the moment, the Bripe is only available for distribution in the US and Canada, so we will only be able to get the Bripe sent to these two countries. I appreciate that this narrows down the possible applicants, and I'm sorry to the many who may be disappointed by this. If other distr...
Hello everyone,
My apologies for the delay on posting this from The Best Cheap Espresso Setup video. The 2 Gaggia Classic setup contests, one with an Iberital MC-2 grinder, and the other with a Sage grinder, are now live:
Hi all!
It's time for me to go shopping for the next round of espresso machine testing and because there isn't a lot at £1,000 I thought we could take the step up to £1,500.
If you'd like to see a machine reviewed then please complete this incredibly short survey here:
https://forms.gle/CeyLTwejP1caWwmS6
You can vote multiple times if you want to suggest a few different machines. ...
2021-03-02 15:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
As many of you have noticed, this community has grown a lot in the last month or so. I promise it isn't tired hyperbole when I say that this has massively exceeded what I ever thought possible. As a community, you're investing into the channel and I want to talk about that investment and what it means.
Firstly, I'm hiring. I need some more help producing videos, and the goal here is to have someone with production experience join the team and professionalise those ...
2021-03-01 10:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be doing another chocolate tasting event with my friend Spencer at Cocoa Runners in three weeks. This will be a live virtual event with chocolate tasting kits on sale for those who'd like to taste along with us. We'll be tasting 6 different bars and talking about their origins, tasting notes, and the comparison between craft chocolate and specialty coffee. If you're interested in learning more about craft chocolate and tasting some delicious bars while you do, this might be something for...
2021-02-17 14:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Thank you for all your support and enthusiasm over grinder week! The 5 winners for the grinder week machines have been contacted and we have now heard back from all of them.
The winners are:
To celebrate the arrival of next week's grinder week and my gratitude for being able to create it for you, I'll be running contests to win each of the 5 grinders. To enter, there will be a different question to answer for each grinder. Aside from the EG-1 (which can work on 90v - 240v, 50 or 60Hz) the machines are all on 230V and 50hz. Please be aware of this before entering, and we will try and give away more 110V/60Hz products in 2021 to balance things out!
The contests will go live n...
2021-01-20 15:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone is managing enough rest and coffees these days. A couple of announcements from the recent XeoLeo and Baratza Encore giveaways:
Hey all,
A less fun message for everyone today. The Patreon has grown and grown, and is an incredible community now. As this group has grown to nearly 5,000 people, the number of DMs has grown too. In the past, I said I would reply to everyone and in the last couple of months I've really struggled to do that. I think I have to accept that in order to do that, I'd have to reduce the time I spend on things like making videos, and I don't think that make sense for any of us.
This is ...
2021-01-07 15:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
UPDATE: I should have been clearer for new folk - this doesn't work for equipment or subscriptions, just coffee on the main page. Sorry!
UPDATE 2: Apologies if this shows up in your notifications again. I had to update it because it turns out the preview for people who hadn't joined Patreon still showed the code. (I'll be having words with Patreon about this.)
Just an update to your Patreon discount from Square Mile (it lapses every three months or so).
Here it...
2021-01-04 10:44:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
I made a little video, just having a little rumination on the end of year stuff, on why we drink coffee, on why we want better coffee.
I decided not to release it on YouTube, so this is just for you lovely Patreon supporters.
Thanks - wishing you the best (coffee) for 2021!
James
Here's the link to enter the contest to win the XeoLeo Grinder:
https://gleam.io/Tjawk/win-a-xeoleo-grinder
The winner of the Fellow Ode grinder was Osmin from the US - congrats!
Take care!
James
Hi all,
This is just a quick post to give you a heads up on a video that goes live (probably) tomorrow and to answer a potential question about patreon.
I'm not going to be making any videos during the month of February.
Instead the plan is to turn the channel over to four guest creators who will each post one video a week. I'll be paying them all the ad revenue as well as giving them each a budget of $1000 to help towards making the video. The video tomorrow will be a...
2020-11-13 21:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Here is the link to a contest for the Fellow Ode grinder:
https://gleam.io/7SDxo/win-a-fellow-ode-grinder
IMPORTANT: This is a 120V unit, not suitable for 220-240V power.
The most inspiring suggestion will be selected as the winner, to adhere with contest rules on Patreon.
The winner of my previous contest was:
Peter from Ontario, Canada, who won the Flair N...
2020-11-13 15:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
We've managed to clear customs a little earlier on the new cups and they're now in stock here.
As before, this is a single, one-off run ( if your tier has a discount code, it'll obviously work here too). The idea was to wrap an espresso bar around the cup, and we love the work that artist Christy Lundy 2020-11-12 11:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
It's here, and you lovely patrons get the first look!
We worked with artist Michael B. Myers to create the most intensely coffee Christmas jumper we could. There's a lot going on here: pour overs, coffee flowers, latte art, portafilter sleeves and more!
These are all knitted to order, rather than being ...
2020-11-10 10:33:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
I know there've been a lot of posts today - sorry this didn't make it into an earlier one!
I'm going to be doing a live chocolate tasting with my good friend Spencer of Cocoa Runners. It's a fun idea where we taste our way through a variety of bars and we'll talk about how they're relevant to me and my life. (Imagine it as This Is Your Life, but with chocolate and also this reference is probably extremely dated...) The tasting won't be blind - you can see what you're getti...
2020-10-20 18:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Just a quick one with a couple of discount codes and some new merch news:
Firstly - your Square Mile discount lapsed and was only just renewed but you'll need this code: PATREONCOE2010 which will give you 10% off coffee.
Secondly, we have some new merch releasing very soon. With everything going on I got a little obsessed with the idea of a coffee doomsday brew bunker, and so we turned that into some art. It's available as prints and on a limited run...
2020-10-20 08:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post