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I now think this is it for sure. Picked up this photo of an Australian auction site- it would be the same rough age of the machine you have now. Seems there are plenty of sparepart suppliers out there, so you should be fine. Its a Visacrem KB200

Just got this link sent to me, 360kg toper drum roaster in action. Makes a 60kg look tiny! Impressive but too big for me! > Toper Ürün Demosu - TKM-SX 360

Build out for cafes. Really I have to ask myself why I still do this for a living. I am onto my 11th cafe fitout at present (11th I have owned and therefore been responsible for- umpenth other buildouts with some other idiot taking thecabinets pressure!). Hours are insane. Over the last 3 weeks...

A trip to Papua – Indonesian Papua Highlands The endless blue ocean that is the Arafura Sea meets Papua with a violent shudder of breaking surf on rocky beaches. Papua simply rises out of the water like some strange prehistoric animal. Ponderous, enormous, mysterious. The mountains climb...

I noticed Elizabeths post regarding her new cafe. She is also on the social media Twitter. I am wondering how many Coffee forum members tweet? I know I do regularly. I have already added Elizabeth to those I follow for twitter updates, drop your twitter details here and we can all follow what...

Merdeka Coffee is URGENTLY seeking a manager for two busy cafes in Jakarta, Indonesia. The ideal candidate must be able to speak English and have a cafe/coffee shop retail background. The start would be immediate. Please email to [email protected] and cc to [email protected].

Look, I love lever machines. The theatre, the sweet...sweet shots. I have a three group Lever in a cafe at present. My question is- I am opening a new cafe July. It needs a machine. Should it be a lever or not? The slight kink in the equation is most of the clientale will be antipodean (look it...

I have had a few PM's (plus three emails) enquiry about why I have been so quiet lately. The truth is I have been getting Medeka Coffee NZ started up. It has been quite an adventure topped off by the salient fact that I have not spent much time in tempratures so cold for over a decade...

Hot on the news that Starbucks is closing another 300 stores (including 100 overseas) one is left wondering in just which direction the Giant Green Mermaid can go to restore its ambitious growth and expansion goals, as well as the shareholder luster of years gone by. For a start the...

We are in the process of re-working our website. It will involve an overhaul of some sections, a revamp and touch up in other sections. If anyone is interested in linking to our site, now would obviously be an opportune time. I do have a stack of emails from people asking about linking from like...

I measure coffee culture in the crema of my very short ristretto. This is nigh near impossible to do in Indonesia, where an espresso can come in cups as big as cappuccino mugs. Often the cafes of Indonesia make the mistake of changing the time honoured drink preparations to suit the perceptions...

From the news wires. I am not too familiar with the Central and South American coffee agricultural systems. I assume that because most growing areas are not as inaccessible as they are here, and in Africa, fertilisers are an important part of the micro-system. In Indonesia 'organic'- using...

So a while back the company announced the closure of 600 stores in the US- Imainly underperforming stores in a slowing economy where retailers, banks are struggling. I think the fact they are now closing 61 (or 2/3rds) of the stores in Australia at very short notice is actually very telling- and...

Here is a theoretical question I would like to get some feedback on, and then (maybe) put to real use in a real life situation. Lets say you are a cafe owner on the ground floor of a 2 storey building bordering a very, very busy boutique shopping centre. The shopping centre is very well...

One of the very best things about roasting for me here in Indonesia, is the proximity to my growers- or even the closeness to coffee being grown full-stop. Such is the case at present, the West Java harvest of Robusta, and tiny bit of Arabica, is almost over for another year. All the photos...

Its that time again, the FHA (Food Hotel Asia) convention is on week after next in Singapore. If I am not wrong there will be some Coffeeforum.com contributors attending. We sould all try and get together for a drink on 1 of the evenings. I will be there only Sunday, Monday and Tuesday- flying...

Having been effectively marooned in Sinagpore the last month (baby was unexpectedly born here), I have had a very good opporunity to look at the coffee scene in the Island state. Essentially coffee can be seperated into 3 distinct groupings- 1/. Local coffee: Kopi Tiams and coffee shops...

Sad to read this news to day. Peet spent some time in Indonesia as well as NZ (my adopted, and home countries!) before emigrating to the US. I never meet him but I am sure many of the US posters to coffeeforums.com probably did have the honor. Ashland - Alfred H. Peet, the son of a Dutch...

For all you Roman-ites, or lovers of Italy- what in your oppinion on what is the best cafe/s in Italy, and of course the best local coffees (NOT Illy, Lazzaza etc but Locally consumed favs)? Would appreciate comments as will be visiting and would like to emerge myself neck deep in espresso while...

Another Coffeeforums member in the news... Just reading my daily Communicafe report and came accross this article- China - Cafemakers’ President to speak at Asia Tea & Coffee Conference Andrew Hetzel, president of leading retail specialty coffee consultancy Cafemakers, LLC, will speak at the...

For the second time in less than 2 years, Indonesia has been hit by a devastating earthquake. At 5.53 this morning DKI Yogyakarta was shaken awake. Central Java is not a prominent coffee growing area, like the province of Aceh is, but there is still quite a bit of medium altitude Arabica (as...

I am heading off to the Food and Hotel Asia Expo next week in Sinagpore. I would be keen to meet up with any of the Asian based Coffeeforum.com posters who may be there. As it is the biggest expo of its kind for the year (in Southeast Asia), I am pretty sure there should be at leat one or two of...

I guess its hardly surprising that some of the members of this forum are in the news. I just got this one via emal from Italy. Now remind me...Boca Java??? Who would that be then :wink: US 3/ - Boca Java Creates First Gourmet Coffee for Bloggers Boca Java, the premier, direct-to-consumer...

An interesting clip I just stumbled accross- might pay to delve into this with your brokers. I know here quite a number of the origins I deal with are projecting drops in output again this year. The world's 2006/07 coffee supply and demand are near a balance, although low carryover stocks in...

A quick thank you to those from this forum who have sent me an email to ask if all of us at Merdeka Coffee are OK. We are in Java, so quite some distance from the epi-center off the coast of NW Sumatra. Obviously the devastation in the Aceh province is immense. Indonesian TV (which is not sh to...

Okay...heres one for you. A dear and old family friend recently called up to request a special order of our Java Village coffee. "I really can't live without it", he commented. Of course I was touched by his nice comments until he added...."it keeps me regular you know!". So...has anyone heard...

I was reading through several other coffee boards the other day and was amazed at the number of posters who were advertising supposedly premium roasted product made from "100% mountain grown arabica" at...cheap, cheap prices. This is one of the things that irks me most about the coffee business...