If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Unless, of course, you’re Douglas Weber of Weber Workshops, the company renowned for its high-end coffee gear fashioned that wouldn’t look out of place in a laboratory. In fact, many of its products are fashioned with actual lab glass.
Driven by the mission to “redefine quality in the specialty coffee industry,” Weber (an alumnus of Apple) and his team “challenge the status quo” and “strive for continuous improvement,” his company says โย two mantras that certainly color the company’s latest manual coffee grinder, the HG-2 Mk2.
Weber Workshops HG-2 Mk2
Weber Workshops HG-2 Mk2
Weber Workshops makes a variety of coffee gear, including innovative portafilters, a watchmaking-inspired WDT device and an espresso-pour-over hybrid brewer called the BIRD (short for Brew in Reverse Direction).
But the company is most famous for its grinders, starting with the manual HG series, which introduced a two-speed transmission technology that cater to lighter roasts (typically troublesome for manual grinders).