Please consider donating to help offset our high running costs.
Thats a very fun and enlightening tour. I wish Mrs S and I liked Kona Coffee. I’ve purchased every so often since our tour but it just doesn't sing to us.

Old school, I like it, I'm partial to that myself on occasion. I always use filtered water, even though here on the Emerald Isle it's pretty good quality, it's good for the machine as well. I get up for work at 0545hrs, and I thought that was early😲
We also use a midsize French press/Bodum press, usually with three heaped measures because we prefer it strong. I like it black and Mrs S with a dash of cold milk.
I'm Italian and I like coffee a lot...
also in Italy we have several way to make the coffe but the most populat are, with the espresso machine at the bar and at home with the moka (Bialetti or Lagostina) or in the city of Napoli (Naples) with the "napoletana" moka.
My only suggestion, looking at the picture above, in case you make a coffe with an Italian moka (even the caffettiera napoletana) do not press the coffee into the moka with the pusher tool but instead make a "mountain" of coffee a bit taller than the container and than when you'll close screwing the top of the moka it will be abit compressed. Tha's the way they teached me from Napoli.