Recent Insights into Espresso Dynamics April 14 Chicago Conference – Coffee ad Astra

I’m happy to announce that I will be presenting a conference on selected topics of espresso mechanics on the morning of Sunday, April 14 (8-11 AM) during SCA 2024 in Chicago !

While researching various topics and analyzing data sets for my upcoming book “The Physics of Espresso”, I have come to learn a lot and also stumbled upon some pretty surprising ways in which the styles of particle size distributions can affect the properties of espresso.

I will be discussing some selected topics about which I have learned the most recently, with a data-rich, deep dive. Such topics will include:

• How puck screens, baskets and shower screens affect the flow of water,
• How puck preparation tools and techniques affect the flow of water,
• How the modern, more unimodal grinders affect espresso and why there is so much taste diversity across grinders.

Tickets are available on Scott Rao’s website !

I hope to see many of you there, and bring all of your coffee questions ! Feel free to arrive 15 minutes early and enjoy Prodigal coffees on batch brew !

On the topic of my upcoming book, I have just sent it to edition last week, and I expect it to come out in about a year !