Announcing Winners for the Espressos Grinders Under £500 (Patreon)

We drew seven winners from the Gleam contest on January 10th and sent out emails to all seven winners. We've just finished hearing back from everyone with confirmations so we can now announce the wins:

• Jörg from Germany won the Eureka Oro Mignon
• Minna from Finland won the Baratza Sette 270
• Daryl in England won the Niche Zero
• Peter fromIreland won the Solo DF64 Gen 2
• Kevin from Singapore won the Timemore 064S
• Sheila from Hong Kong won the Lagom Mini
• Joey from England won the Mahlkönig X54

Here are some of their winning answers to the question we posed: 2023 was the year of grinders. What will 2024 be the year of? And what would you like it to be the year of?

"2024 will be the year of smart espresso machines for a decent (haha) price! I’m looking forward to my Meticulous and hope for more options."

"Year of innovation: mixing and matching the best ways of making coffee, and producing new type of coffee makers"

"Smarter espresso machines! Machines like Meticulous will push the industry towards an increasingly data driven approach to espresso - and I'm all for it."

"2024 I want it to be a year of roasters, as during COVID a lot of coffee lovers turned to home roasting. It will be interesting to see a comparison of small to medium size roasting machine."

"All kinds of brewers. Love the pipe one"

"Hacking espresso machines"

"2024 will be the year of WDT exploration! I honestly tried spraying 4 squirts of water to my coffee bean for that longer extraction, and it works!"