Espresso-making with the CoffeeJack v2 (Pro)

    No, this isn't a review (not yet ... one is coming), but because I'm a regular coffee brewer and not really an espresso maker, I needed to understand espresso a bit better before I could use this cool little device.

    Because I'm a tech writer and a flowchart and process nerd, I made myself a flowchart, which I'm just dying to show off:

    Click to enlarge:

    It's a crash course in espresso-making concepts and how they apply to this machine.   It definitely violates some best-practice rules for flowcharting, but I decided that keeping it all on one page was more important to me.

    Pretty cool, huh?  I do love a nice flowchart. I'm giving it away under a Creative Commons license (there's info at the bottom of the image on how to get an editable version). Or you can click here (you need a google/gmail account to save and edit the file, though).

    Anyway, I will eventually write a review of the CoffeeJack v2, but I have to learn how to dial in a shot first, so it'll be a while.  But the early impressions in the online groups are quite promising.

 Here's the introductory video from the Kickstarter campaign, so you can at least see how cool this thing is.   The campaign has ended, and they are in their shipping phase, and it's not yet available for sale, so unless you were a backer, you'll have to wait a bit to get one. I've linked info below.

Those gears give it an almost steampunk vibe, am I right?

Links:

• Kickstarter (ended) with lots of info: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coffeejack/coffeejack-v2-gear-powered-portable-espresso-machine/description
• https://www.coffeejack.co.uk/ (the v2 isn't available for purchase at the time this article was published - if you go to the buy now button, only the v1 is listed for sale).
• Full review video by Lance Hedrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmtF_UI9Ps
• Full review of the v1 (which brews very differently) by James Hoffman, detailing how the company got slammed by COVID during their first campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnSUFXfRddE&t=2s Note: their v2 campaign went FAR better, and they delivered on time, though there were some mishaps along the way (what crowd-funded campaign doesn't?)