Filter Notes Europe edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Edition No. 15
30 October 2026

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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: Engineered expression and studio utility

The Speedster sets a high industrial-design bar, followed by four coffees spanning washed clarity and natural fruit, plus brewing tools that make flow, extraction and service more visible.

Spotlight

Kees van der Westen · Machines

Speedster

A hand-built single-group espresso machine with 316L boilers, progressive pre-infusion and unmistakable industrial design.

The Speedster is one of the rare home-scale machines whose engineering and bodywork feel inseparable: separate 316L boilers, progressive pre-infusion and optional Idro-Matic control sit inside a genuinely iconic shell.

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02 / Fresh coffee 4 bags to know

Beans for the week

A short regional edit of fresh coffees worth brewing now.

ProcessYeast-fermented washed

Bean pick

Manhattan Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

Gundikhan

India · Yeast-fermented washed · Filter or espresso · apple, brown sugar, loumi

An Indian Sarchimor processed with a yeast-assisted washed method, giving apple and brown-sugar sweetness a distinctive dried-citrus, loumi edge.

ProcessAnaerobic washed

Bean pick

Manhattan Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

Rainbow

Colombia · Anaerobic washed · Filter or espresso · papaya, strawberry, dragon fruit

A Pink Bourbon whose anaerobic-washed process aims for colour without heaviness: papaya, strawberry and dragon fruit over a clean frame.

Andres Ramirez by THE BARN Coffee Roasters

ProcessWashed

Bean pick

THE BARN Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

Andres Ramirez

Huehuetenango, Guatemala · Washed · Filter · dried apricot, cocoa, pecan

Dried apricot, cocoa and pecan give this washed Guatemalan coffee an inviting everyday profile, grounding the edition’s more adventurous fermented washed lots.

Himalaya Maragogype by THE BARN Coffee Roasters

ProcessNatural

Bean pick

THE BARN Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

Himalaya Maragogype

Apaneca, El Salvador · Natural · Filter · cherry, mango, dark chocolate

Mauricio Salaverria’s large-bean Maragogype adds cherry, mango and dark-chocolate depth: the natural-process counterpoint to three washed coffees in this edition.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

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

New geometry

OREA · Manual brewing

Z1 Brewer

A compact brewer with an angular body and dedicated low-bypass paper format.

The Z1 is a genuinely different OREA model, using a compact angular chamber to concentrate control around bed shape and bypass rather than revisiting the O1 or O2.

Cold extraction

SIBARIST · Manual brewing

Cold Brew System

A handmade Barcelona borosilicate chamber and filter system for clean, slow cold extraction.

A restrained answer to oversized cold-brew towers: the sealed borosilicate chamber and dedicated high-permeability papers keep the focus on aromatic clarity.

Flow control

SIBARIST · Tools & water

Profilers

Gold-plated stainless-steel discs that change contact area and flow in 45 mm flat-bed brewers.

Instead of changing the brewer, each disc changes the open-to-contact ratio from 25% to 85%, giving a precise way to test strength, drawdown and clarity.

Panama Washed Geisha Only T-shirt by TANAT

Small find

TANAT · Accessories & oddities

Panama Washed Geisha Only T-shirt

A 100% cotton roaster T-shirt built around an unapologetically specific coffee preference.

Coffee merch at its most specific: a joke that also reads like a genuine brewing manifesto.

The Coffee Diary by Square Mile Coffee Roasters

Small find

Square Mile Coffee Roasters · Accessories & oddities

The Coffee Diary

A structured notebook for recording coffees, recipes and tasting observations.

A useful analogue counterweight to brew apps: enough structure to compare recipes, without turning every cup into a spreadsheet.

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