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Jan 21, 2025 | 
coffeegeek.com | Mark Prince |Natia Simmons |Allison Gainey
This is the first and only edition of this guide This is the first time we've published a "Best of" for the previous year's best equipment, in over 14 years.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Allison Gainey
Ah, coffee, my coffee. That magical elixir that not only jump starts my morning, but drives my passion to produce it better and more complex, every day. To enjoy the true culinary aspects of the drink. To tinker, to toil, to experiment, to taste, and try it all over again. If you’re like me, chances are you don’t think much about anything involving coffee other than how to make it, and how to taste it. But coffee is very much more than all that.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Natia Simmons |Mark Prince |Allison Gainey
This is it: CoffeeGeek’s ultimate list of coffee and espresso gift choices for the loved one in your life who loves coffee and espresso. This final list, our ultimate guide, is also our year end “Best of the Best” guide, because we’re only choosing the best selections based on our own testing and ownership of these products. Every price range is covered, from $50 to $3,000 and more.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Mark Prince |Allison Gainey |Natia Simmons
Of all the Holiday Gift Lists we do each year, the Under $100 list is probably our favourite at CoffeeGeek. In this price range, you still get affordable (yes, $100 or less is “affordable” in 2024, when a fancy meal out for 2 can cost $200 or more!), but you also get into some very good quality and unique gift choices.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Natia Simmons |Mark Prince |Allison Gainey
Our Holiday Gift Lists for 2024 are fully underway, and now it’s time to present our choies for espresso related gear under $50. Our holiday gift lists have one goal in mind: to find you unique and actually useful suggestions for the coffee and espresso lover in your life. It could be finding the perfect gift for that office gift swap, one or two stocking stuffers guaranteed to please, or a nice budget-friendly piece of uniquery to place under the tree. Our lists have three priorities.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Zuzanna Kaminski |Allison Gainey |Mark Prince |Ethan McGonigal
It’s that time of year again: the CoffeeGeek Holiday Gift List time! This year, we’re changing up the lists a bit. We’ll have individual lists for coffee and also for espresso, both under $50. Then we’ll have three additional lists: Under $100, Under $250, and for any price, covering both coffee and espresso. Those lists will come later this week.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Mark Prince |Allison Gainey |Natia Simmons
Amazon sure likes dragging out a sales period, right? But we’re finally here – finally at the real Black Friday Sales event. And not just Amazon. We’ve found a few door-buster deals elsewhere online too!Natia, Allison and I have been combing through Amazon’s entire deals database – which has over 75,000 products (!!) – for weeks now. We’ve found the absolute best prices on top-quality coffee and espresso gear, many of them the best prices in the last year.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Mark Prince |Allison Gainey |Natia Simmons
Enjoying quality espresso in the home is not a cheap venture. Unlike pour over coffee’s entry point budget of well under $100, having good espresso in the home means starting at around $500, factoring in the cost of the espresso machine, a good grinder, and a starter set of accessories. Ten years ago, there were several choices in the powered, pump driven espresso machine market under $300 that we felt confident in recommending.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Allison Gainey
So, I recently had the chance to visit Victoria, BC for a little vacay, and guess where I ended up? The CoffeeGeek Lab, aka Mark Prince’s crib! (okay, it was his very nice arts and crafts style home). The place is sensory overload if you are into coffee, though a lot of it is tucked away. He happened to have an espresso machine up on the test bench, one that I could only dream of owning: a Lelit Bianca V3 machine. Let me tell you, that Lelit is absolute next level.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
coffeegeek.com | Allison Gainey
Since I’m still new at CoffeeGeek, it seemed natural I should write about my favorite brewing method by a long, long measure. I love the V60. The Hario V60. It changed my relationship with coffee forever. The thing is, I didn’t know a lot about the origin or background on the V60, so I spent the last little while diving into its history and why so many people just like me are entirely fascinated with this brewer.
