Your brewing equipment and grinders (and customers!) are counting on you to keep making your best coffee. Equipment maintenance is needed daily and weekly, plus a tune up every six months, to assure they run smoothly and turn out the best possible coffee. 

Resolve to stick to some regular procedures, and your equipment will thank you.

Cold brewed coffee has become a mainstream staple, and just like hot brewed coffee, cold brew equipment needs the same attention to cleaning details. From preparation in a Toddy Cold Brew System to a dispenser like a Brood Nitro System, this process requires extra care to ensure safe preparation and serving.

The extended immersion time of cold brew leaves behind coffee oils in brewing equipment. But removing them is easy with an alkaline cleaner such as Urnex Clearly Cold and Urnex Complete Cafe Equipment Sanitizer or a one-step product such as Urnex One-Pro.

It's not the most glamorous part of making good coffee, but the way you clean your equipment can have a serious effect on the taste and quality of the drinks you serve, as well as the life of your equipment.

Irregular or short-cut cleaning will result in unsanitary equipment or coffee that's tainted with the taste of mineral residue or coffee oils – and lost revenue due to equipment repairs.

Keep your espresso machine and grinder in tip-top shape with the following steps.

A daily soap and water scrub can still leave behind coffee and mineral residues on your brewers and urns, and taint future batches of coffee.  

With Tabz Urn & Brewer Cleaner, you're equipped with an exceptional all-purpose cleaning solution that strips away coffee or residues, so you can maintain flavor integrity in every batch, every day. As an added safety feature, Tabz tablets contain an organic blue dye which helps ensure proper rinsing.

The quality of an espresso shot is determined by myriad factors. Most people focus on the espresso machine and/or the quality of the coffee being used —both important, of course. However, the quality of the espresso grinder used in preparing a perfect shot of espresso is equally important.

Espresso requires a very fine, consistent coffee grind in order to brew correctly, and thus a specifically designed and engineered professional grinder. Other factors: choosing the correct size and model for speed, efficiency and consistent quality to keep up with your espresso machine during busy hours at your coffee shop or restaurant.

Serving espresso is a great way to increase sales, but there is a lot to consider when choosing an espresso machine that will meet your operation’s specific needs. The type of food service you do is probably the most important factor, followed by your daily customer traffic.

It may seem excessive or snobbish, but it would be a shame to take a premium specialty-roast coffee or a fine tea and brew it in regular old tap water. Coffee and tea are nearly 99 percent water, making good water quality essential to the final product.