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Sound Homebrew Supply often does a yearly sale of fresh-pressed cider for fermenting, but it’s typically a blend of eating or baking apples (e.g. Jonagold, Gravenstein, etc). Nothing wrong with that, but I’ve long wanted to try my hand at fermenting with true cider apples. This year, they (unfortunately, due to a cidery closure), got access to a couple of blends made true cider apples, and put them up for sale.

An oft-mentioned shortcoming of the Gaggia Classic is the crappy steam knob. It’s not ergonomic, can break, and is just not that good looking: Modified from image by Guy Sie I was working on my 2014 Gaggia Classic last week and cracked the knob trying to remove it. Instead of paying 20 bucks for a equally-crappy replacement, I decided I wanted to try and build a replacement.