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This should answer your question…… Slayer makes it easy to pull perfect shots of espresso.  See more pictures

Brewing with Mellita On our front bar at Fratello we have recently become enamored with the simple Mellita drip coffee maker. This most simple of coffee brewing methods can yield some stellar results. French press for most of us has held the torch as the non espresso method of choice, but we really wanted toMore

Slayer Espresso Machine @ Fratello – teaser from Chris Prefontaine on Vimeo.

On January 17th my brother’s Jason & Chris joined my self to travel to Guatemala to visit our friend Johann Nottebohm and his wife Holly at their farm Nueva Granada.  Our journey began in Guatemala City when we traveled 7.5 hours by car to the far North West corner of Guatemala which is known asMore

Fratello Coffee is introducing a new Costa Rican to our clients this February.  We have done a lot of research to find this coffee and are very pleased with our results.  After narrowing down from 30 original varities submitted from Costa Rica, we had decided to put the top 12 into a final round of cupping.More

Check out some pictures from our “cafe crawl” at:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/15126591@N02/sets/72157603439934924/     My brothers and I spent a day last week touring 14 of some of the best cafes in Seattle! We had a lot of great coffee and gained new insights as to where coffee culture is going. Our hope is to influence the coffeeMore