Filter Notes Europe edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Edition No. 14
23 October 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 — Engineered for clarity

Europe's edit leans into tactile control: a spring lever, grind-by-weight dosing, Workshop Coffee's washed Ugandan espresso beside a Pink Bourbon filter roast, and small tools chosen for purpose rather than novelty.

Europe 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.

It gives the spring lever's declining pressure curve modern temperature control without erasing the physical act of pulling espresso.

€2,459.02

Configured through an EU specialist; choose the 230V model and destination plug. Price excludes destination tax; local service terms depend on the seller.

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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.

ProcessFully washed

Washed Uganda

Workshop Coffee · Coffee beans

Bulaago

Sipi, Mount Elgon, Uganda · Fully washed · Espresso · fresh quince, honeyed sweetness, fresh pine

SL14 and SL28 from Mount Elgon give an espresso built around quince-like brightness, honeyed sweetness and a fresh pine lift rather than weight alone.

ProcessWashed after dry fermentation

Pink Bourbon

Workshop Coffee · Coffee beans

Maidy Bocanegra Pink Bourbon

Finca Los Limones, Huila, Colombia · Washed after dry fermentation · Filter · lime curd, blackcurrant, cane sugar

Maidy Bocanegra's Pink Bourbon layers lime-curd brightness and blackcurrant over cane-sugar sweetness, making a sharply defined filter counterpart to Bulaago.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

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

Grind by weight

Fiorenzato · Grinders

AllGround Sense

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

The floating load cell brings commercial-style grind-by-weight repeatability to a compact enthusiast grinder without giving up burr control.

Thermal brewer

Graycano · Manual brewing

Graycano Dripper

A ribbed aluminium cone with a cork sleeve that uses high conductivity to shape the slurry temperature curve.

Its material choice is not cosmetic: the metal body deliberately changes heat transfer while the cork makes that usable by hand.

Water toolkit

APAX LAB · Tools & water

Mineral Concentrates

Three mineral concentrates for adjusting extraction, acidity and structure in brew water.

A compact way to learn what water composition does by changing one cup at a time rather than rebuilding a full reservoir.

Small find

Prolog Coffee · Accessories & oddities

Prolog Cap

A light five-panel cap cut from quick-dry recycled nylon.

Functional, restrained roaster merchandise from one of Copenhagen's defining coffee companies.

Small find

UFO · Accessories & oddities

Filters Type A · Pack of 100

Purpose-shaped papers for the UFO's radial flat-bed geometry.

A very specific consumable whose folds and fit are part of how the brewer manages flow.

Editorially selected, never paid placement. Prices and availability can change; affiliate links are always disclosed.

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