Get to know CTG Member Leah Ellis – owner of JavaTech Mobile Espresso Equipment Repair in Snohomish, WA.

The CTG just held its second Coffee Technicians Guild Summit in the U.S. and is gearing up for its first Summit in Europe, which will be held 16-17 November 2017 in Susegana, Italy. Event sponsors Astoria and BWT Best Water Technology will provide the venue and equipment to make this CTG Summit possible.

Jason Fox gives a recap of the the first Gearhead Event that took place last month in St. Louis, MO.

Get to know CTG member Homer Chaney as he shares his journey to becoming a coffee technician from his beginnings in the U.S. Air Force and working part-time as a barista.

Hylan Joseph outlines the basic concepts of electricity that espresso machine techs must be familiar with, including: voltage, current, power, and resistance. 

Get to know CTG member Carlos Bennett as he shares his journey from slinging cocktails in the heart of Downtown Austin to joining Texas Coffee Techs, where he repairs home units. 

The nominating committee of the Coffee Technicians Guild put forth twelve candidates for the 2017 Executive Council elections.

As technicians and servicing dealers, we have a unique set of qualifications in being able to train and educate our customers on how to run and grow their businesses more successfully, and key to connecting those qualifications to our customers is in understanding their point of view and the standards to which they measure and benefit from our equipment.

In the coffee business, water can be our best ally or our worst enemy. Water can add to, or subtract from the quality of a cup of well-prepared coffee. It is important to acknowledge the effect water can have on the performance and longevity of brewing equipment.

The nominating committee of the Coffee Technicians Guild has put forth twelve candidates for the 2017 Executive Council elections.

Working Group member Larry Eister shares his experience representing the Coffee Technicians Guild at World of Coffee Budapest.

Are you a coffee technician attending World of Coffee Budapest 2017? Join the Coffee Technicians Guild meeting and mixer at HungExpo on Wednesday 14 June from 15:30 to 16:30 in Hall 25 Room 118. 

This year at the Global Specialty Coffee Expo we offered a raffle for a one-year membership to the Coffee Technicians Guild. Congratulations to our winner: Ben Brown of Nuova Simonelli!

Kaleb Leach of Texas Coffee Techs shares his personal experience working at the Coffee Technicians Guild booth at the Global Specialty Coffee Expo.

Nominations for leadership positions on the first-ever CTG Executive Council are now open! This is a great opportunity to help guide the direction of the guild and to suggest someone who you think would make a great leader. We are looking for a CTG leadership that will be highly representative of a diverse and global membership.

I was 17 years old when I got my first job in the coffee industry, sweeping the floors for Corsair Coffee, a wholesale coffee roastery in Wichita, KS. I built the foundation of my coffee knowledge there; I learned to roast and cup, how to source green coffee, sales, and how to fix specialty coffee equipment.

Troubleshooting is crucial to what we do as coffee technicians. Over the years, I’ve collected manuals and books about the best way to troubleshoot systems. This entry is a combination of several articles, training manuals, and other sources on troubleshooting that I’ve edited for training purposes.

I began my career in espresso and coffee equipment in 1999, thanks to my brother-in-law Don Pighetti. He had worked for Bunn-O-Matic from the 1970 to 1999, where he did everything from sales, building and adding knowledge, to the development of a coffee brewer. Bunn decided to get into the espresso equipment business and he was chosen to play a large part in the development of that venture.

By Hylan Joseph

I blame Shad 100%. Normally these conversations happen over beers after the SCAA events and we lay out our grand plans on stained napkins then forget about them in the morning. The next morning, our grand plans are swept up off of some bar floor. That was really where we made our first mistake. We should have had a beer first.

By Jill Fountain, Macchinisti, LLC

I can’t tell you how many times I have been leaning over a machine with a wrench in my hand when one of the baristas from the cafe comes up to me and asks, “How did you learn how to do that?”, often followed by “where can I learn?”.