Filter Notes Global edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Friday Edit No. 07 · Global
4 September 2026
Designed to reveal

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Local availability, prices and fresh coffee sources.

The Friday Edit

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01 / The cover story Object of the week

Designed to reveal

This week's edit is about instruments that make the hidden parts of coffee easier to read: temperature, flow, grind and extraction. Two expressive African coffees keep the engineering honest, while the closing tools solve small, recurring annoyances.

Spotlight

La Marzocco · Machines

Linea Mini

A compact dual-boiler home espresso machine built around La Marzocco's integrated group and connected brew controls.

The refreshed Mini turns commercial architecture into a genuinely legible home workflow: stable brewing, direct control and fewer black-box variables.

USD 6,600

In stock on La Marzocco Home USA; use a local authorised distributor for voltage, plug and service outside the US.

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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.

Bean of the week

THE BARN · Coffee beans

Gachami AA

Kirinyaga, Kenya · Washed · Filter · blackcurrant, mandarin, syrupy

A classic washed Kirinyaga profile with enough structure to make changes in grind and water immediately obvious.

Tadesse Natural Krume 74158 by April Coffee Roasters

Fresh arrival

April Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

Tadesse Natural Krume 74158

Bombe, Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia · Natural · Filter · peach, yellow plum, mandarin

The natural-process sweetness supplies the rounder counterpoint to Gachami without losing the clarity this edition is built around.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

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

M47 Classic

A stepless 47 mm conical-burr hand grinder with an all-metal body and fine adjustment.

Its unusually fine stepless adjustment makes hand grinding feel like a measurement tool rather than a compromise.

Tally Pro Precision Scale

A coffee scale with Brew Assist, timer and weight modes, 0.1 g resolution and USB-C charging.

Brew Assist exposes ratio drift in real time, which is more useful than adding another opaque automatic recipe.

Graycano Dripper S

A café-focused cast-aluminium cone brewer with Lava Ribs, Air Pockets and an integrated silicone grip.

Its cast-aluminium body, Lava Ribs and Air Pockets make temperature and flow part of the design, not an afterthought.

Small find

Weber Workshops · Accessories & oddities

Coffee Brush

A natural-bristle dry coffee brush shaped for clearing grounds from grinders and work surfaces.

A small, specific answer to the grounds that otherwise migrate across every home coffee station.

Stainless Steel Reusable Filter by AeroPress

Small find

AeroPress · Accessories & oddities

Stainless Steel Reusable Filter

A reusable 316 stainless-steel filter for standard-size AeroPress brewers.

It lets more oils through than paper and removes a consumable from a brewer built for repeat use.

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

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