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Celebrating Lever Machines at the Bakke Coffee Museum! This month at the Bakke Coffee Museum we are celebrating all things lever machines and how they work. The amazing lever, that gave us espresso as we know it, and even gave us the term "pulling a shot"! Our month of levers will culminate on April 26th when we will be hosting an open house event showcasing several lever machines, both vintage and modern, operating and serving espresso shots. RSVP for this special event here! The essence of...

It's been a long time coming, but a very special restoration project has just been completed at the Bakke Coffee Museum, and we're so excited to share it with you! This machine was incredibly unique to begin with — a rare example of a pre-WWII two-group vertical steam pressure machine with a lever attachment added at some point. (Presumably shortly after the lever was introduced by Achille Gaggia in ca. 1948.) The other original group, which used steam pressure from the boiler to force the...

Actually, more than 100 years of Espresso! But what an honor to be able to share some of the most iconic machines from the story of espresso in the city where espresso was born. It is not a coincidence that the first espresso machines were born in Milan, and were in fact unveiled at the trade fair that was the precursor to the Host Milano fair today. Milan has long been a center of industry and innovation, and since the turn of the 20th Century the city has been the place where Italy...