Filter Notes Europe edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Edition No. 05
21 August 2026

Shopping region

Local availability, prices and fresh coffee sources.

The Friday Edit

Excellent beans. Interesting objects. Once a week.

The new regional edit, every Friday. Nothing else.

01 / The cover story Object of the week

The Friday Edit Europe — Read the cup

European levers and grind-by-weight engineering meet radically simple flow tools, two distinctive coffees, and two genuinely useful pieces of regional coffee culture.

Spotlight

Profitec · Machines

Pro 800 2.0

A 35.5kg spring-lever dipper machine with PID control, a 3.5-litre copper boiler and tank-or-plumbed operation.

A spring lever whose quiet mechanics, adjustable preinfusion and PID put pressure development back at the centre of the shot.

€2,459.02

Three units shown in stock on the verified European retailer route; checked 14 Aug 2026.

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02 / Fresh coffee 2 bags to know

Beans for the week

A short regional edit of fresh coffees worth brewing now.

ProcessWashed

Coffee

Prolog Coffee · Coffee beans

Chelchele Washed

Chelchele, Gedeb, Gedeo, Ethiopia · 1,900–2,100m · Washed · Omni · peach, jasmine, lemon zest

A clean Gedeb washed lot whose peach, jasmine and lemon-zest cues make water and flow changes easy to taste.

ProcessAnaerobic natural

Coffee

MOK Coffee · Coffee beans

Ethiopia Hambela Buku Sayisa Anaerobic Natural

Hambela Buku Sayisa, Guji, Ethiopia · 2,000–2,300m · Anaerobic natural · Filter · ripe tropical fruit, floral sweetness, winey finish

A sealed five-to-ten-day fermentation and raised-bed drying create the loud counterpoint to Prolog's washed precision.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

The objects making brewing more precise, more enjoyable or simply better looking.

Gear

Fiorenzato · Grinders

AllGround Sense

A direct-drive 64mm flat-burr grinder with a built-in load cell and 10-micron grind increments.

Built-in grind-by-weight and 64mm Dark-T flat burrs connect a physical burr setting to a repeatable dose.

Gear

Ceado · Manual brewing

Hoop Coffee Brewer

An Italian radial-infusion brewer designed for even, low-intervention extraction.

Its radial water path reduces pouring technique to a single controlled fill, making grind and dose the clearer signals.

Gear

Sibarist · Accessories & oddities

BOOSTER 45

A precision stainless mesh support disc for 45mm flat-bed brewers.

A small metal screen that changes support and exit flow, making the bottom of the coffee bed a visible recipe choice.

Small find

Prolog Coffee · Accessories & oddities

Five-Panel Cap

Designed coffee-company swag that is subtle, practical and genuinely connected to this edition's roaster.

Designed coffee-company swag that is subtle, practical and genuinely connected to this edition's roaster.

The World Atlas of Coffee — 3rd Edition, Signed by Square Mile Coffee Roasters

Small find

Square Mile Coffee Roasters · Accessories & oddities

The World Atlas of Coffee — 3rd Edition, Signed

A durable context tool: origin, processing and coffee culture sit beside the sensory signals in this week's cups.

A durable context tool: origin, processing and coffee culture sit beside the sensory signals in this week's cups.

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