Filter Notes Global edition

The Friday Edit

Beans, gear and good finds. Every Friday.

Friday Edit No. 09 · Global
18 September 2026
Control the variable

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

Control the variable

A software-defined espresso machine leads a global edit built around legible feedback: cleaner distribution, steadier measurement and two current coffees that make process contrast easy to taste.

Gear spotlight

Decent Espresso · Machines

DE1PRO

A compact pressure-profiling espresso machine that exposes live flow, pressure and temperature data.

Few machines make the relationship between a recipe and the resulting pressure-flow curve this visible.

£2,756

Available through Decent's official direct-order route with destination-specific configuration.

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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.

Coffee · Natural

THE BARN Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

MOHAMED ALI

Jimma, Ethiopia · Natural · Filter · peach, blueberry, raspberry

A plush, fruit-driven natural gives the edition an expressive reference point from a long-running producer relationship.

LA COLINA WASHED by THE BARN Coffee Roasters

Coffee · Washed

THE BARN Coffee Roasters · Coffee beans

LA COLINA WASHED

Guatemala · Washed · Filter · milk chocolate, pear, stone fruit

Antonio Medina's washed Caturra supplies a silky, structured counterpoint to the natural Ethiopia.

03 / The objects 5 more to know

The gear edit

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

Flat-burr hand grinder

Pietro · Grinders

Pietro Manual Coffee Grinder

A vertical 58mm flat-burr hand grinder built for unusually even filter grinding.

Large flat burrs make manual grinding feel like a legitimate control surface rather than a compromise.

Bed preparation

Nucleus Coffee Tools · Tools & water

NUCLEUS BLOOM

A dual-needle coffee-bed preparation tool with straight and fan configurations.

It turns distribution and trapped-air release into a visible, repeatable pre-brew step.

Responsive scale

Acaia · Tools & water

Umbra

A compact coffee scale with a simplified display and the responsive weighing expected from Acaia.

Umbra keeps the feedback loop fast while taking visual noise out of the daily workflow.

Nebula Brewing Tool by NANA Coffee Roasters

Small find

NANA Coffee Roasters · Manual brewing

Nebula Brewing Tool

A perforated insert that turns a conical dripper into a flatter-flow brewing bed.

A small insert makes bypass and bed geometry tangible without requiring another full brewer.

Small find

Fellow · Accessories & oddities

Carter Carry Lid

A leak-proof Carter Move lid with a folding metal carry handle.

It fixes a practical carrying problem with one compact, replaceable part.

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

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