Our Slayer Espresso

Our Slayer Espresso machine

If you follow our Facebook or Twitter, you might have heard us banging on about our Slayer Espresso machine. No, it’s not coffee aimed at metalheads, but rather one of the rarest and most customisable coffee machines in the world.

The Slayer has a lot of features that make it, in our opinion, among the finest coffee machines around. For one, it’s a beautiful piece of design, with low lines, smooth dark wood paddles and a polished stainless steel body. Take a closer look next time you’re at Goldilocks and you’ll see that it’s one impressive-looking apparatus.

The real thing that makes the Slayer so powerful, however, is its ability to allow absolute control of pressure and temperature. It gives our baristas the capacity to change the brew pressure at various points in the coffee-making process – commonly referred to as ‘pressure profiling’. This means our baristas can finetune every coffee shot to highlight the particular flavour characteristics present in the roast. It’s a real treat for any barista to play with pressure in this way as it allows total control over the machine, whether they want to amp the machine up to 8 or 9 bars of pressure for an espresso blend, or tease out the delicate flavours of a single origin roast with a low 3 to 4 bars of pressure.

Slayer machines are made by a small company in Seattle and we're proud to have one in our venue. To learn more about how this amazing machine works, come and speak with our friendly staff, who love a good chat about all things coffee!