Product Profile | Xbloom Studio
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We've not really done this before - advocated a fancy bit of home kit - but we genuinely think this product will be a winner for a lot of our clientele. So here you have it, our first-ever product profile... why we think the Xbloom is killer etc.
Automated Pour-Over For Home? And it's actually good?
We've been pretty critical of automated pour-over machines in the past. Things like the Poursteady and Marco SP9 have impressed us, but we've always struggled to see the point. They cost a serious amount of money, and while they can brew exceptional coffee, there's still enough manual work involved to make them impractical for many busy cafés.
Until now, we've not come across a good automated pour-over machine at a price point that makes sense for home use. And honestly, we reckon that's where this technology has the most to offer.
If you're really honest with yourself, how good are your home pour-overs?
Yeah, maybe on a Sunday morning, when you've got time to make a couple, you'll get a banger. Or perhaps after a week of working through the same bag, you'll settle on a recipe worth getting out of bed five minutes earlier for. But if you're anything like me, half the filter coffees you brew at home are a bit meh, and most of the time you'll just drink them because you haven't got another twenty minutes to throw at it.
Xbloom Studio - Midnight Black
Our Sipfest Experience With xBloom
So, having just argued that automated pour-over makes the most sense at home, I'm now going to tell you how good it was at a busy coffee festival.
We took a couple of xBloom Studios to Sipfest (a coffee festival in Sheffield, actually a really good one), having been given the units to try out. Naturally, we approached them with our trademark Cuppers scepticism.
We'd had the machines for a couple of weeks, but hadn't really done much beyond plugging one in, loading up a 'trending recipe' from the app and letting it do its thing. It made nice coffee, so we just carried on using it in the office.
Then, the afternoon before Sipfest, we finally got into the weeds and developed a couple of Cuppers-specific recipes for the Omni Dripper. The app is dead easy to use, and within about half an hour we'd got somewhere we were really happy with. The setup time was comparable to dialling in a Moccamaster or Sage Precision Brewer, only this time the recipes were saved on all our phones.
We ran three coffees across two xBlooms, brewing pretty much non-stop throughout the event. El Diviso, El Jaragual and Quebraditas - all expensive, mental Colombians. The machines got absolutely hammered in the morning and churned out brews on brews for most of the afternoon.
We'd settled on a 12g dose at a 1:16 ratio. We did run a couple of larger recipes too, but for the most part we were happy making small, fresh brews; they tasted great. It was sick running an event like this, not worrying about how much coffee to prepare or how long it had been sitting around. When one brew ran out, another was on its way.
The wastage was almost non-existent, every brew tasted like the last, and neither machine missed a beat. The xBloom's consistency genuinely blew us away.
It was a good day.
Our Xbloom menu from Sipfesrt
Recipes - Loads of them.
So yeah, it's a solid bit of kit that can handle an event, and everyone was really impressed with it, woohoo… but that's not really why I want to sell it.
It's the recipe setting and sharing that's got us particularly excited for the home market.
Picture this. You've bought one of our top-end filter coffees, but your experience isn't quite matching up to our exciting description. Is it the coffee? How are you brewing it? Are you even any good at pour-overs?
Well, you can use one of our recipes. Or you can send us yours and we can try it out. As long as you're using decent water, you should be able to get really close to the results we're getting at the roastery, without having to second-guess every stage of the brewing process.
This is fucking exciting from the perspective of a roaster, and it should be pretty exciting for the consumer too.
There are already tons of xBloom recipes available online, and the community resource is amazing. We're looking forward to building out our own library, regularly updating recipes for the coffees we're roasting and making them available for customers to use at home.
12g xbloom recipe
The Grinder and the Kinematic Swirly Pourer
One of the biggest surprises was the grinder. Integrated grinders are often crap, but the xBloom's is genuinely very good. It's got 48mm heptagonal stainless steel conical burrs, 80 grind settings and adjustable RPM. That's a decent-sized burr set for a conical grinder, and we were getting consistently excellent results from it, even with really dense light roast coffees.
Interestingly, xBloom don't sell replacement burrs and don't recommend disassembling the unit for burr changes or servicing. Estimates for the lifespan of burrs like these are around 300–450kg of coffee. For context, if you're brewing five 12g coffees a day, that's theoretically around 14–21 years of burr life.
But the real joy is in the patented kinematic pouring mechanism. The little robotic spout can adjust its pouring patterns, water temperature and flow rate, giving you an extraordinary amount of control over how the coffee is extracted. More importantly, it actually pours beautifully. The movement is smooth, the distribution is even, and you can build surprisingly tech pouring sequences without having to stand over the brewer with a kettle.
We were wowed by the Poursteady when we first used one a couple of years ago, and this is the first bit of relatively affordable tech we've come across that comes close to that experience. It's the sort of pour you'd be pretty chuffed with if you'd done it yourself...
A very nice picture of an Xbloom
...Except you’ve not done it yourself, you pressed a button and had a good long stare at the contents of the fridge.
It Looks Mint.
I don't know about your kitchen situation, but I can tell you about mine. (That's not my kitchen in the photo; it's a lovely product shot from the manufacturer).
I have a small(ish) kitchen counter, and it's used for everything. I've got space for my fancy kettle, but not for it to stay out because apparently 'it's not as good as the normal kettle for tea'. Then there's the scales, the grinder(s), the bags of coffee, the brewer(s). Sometimes it all pisses me off, and I'm the nerd in the house.
The xBloom is just its own thing. Grinder, brewer and scales all in one, so most of that stuff can go in a drawer.
It looks pretty slick as well. Tall and sleek, futuristic but minimal. The knobs and LEDs make it feel tactile, like you don't need an app to operate it. I'm really happy it doesn't have a touchscreen on the front.
Why Were Selling It - In a nutshell.
Honestly, it solves a problem.
How do we help customers brew our filter coffees to the same standard we're aiming for at the roastery? And how can we share more of what we're doing without constantly writing twenty different recipes for twenty different setups?
The xBloom gets us closer to an answer.
It's a bit of a game-changer if you just want consistently good pour-over coffee with minimal faff. It's fun if you want to play around with recipes from roasters all over the world. And it's tidy enough that everyone in your house can get off your back about the brew bar that's invaded your kitchen.
We're looking forward to sharing our recipes, seeing what people do with them, and hopefully getting a few more people drinking our filter coffees the way we intended.
Is the xBloom Studio worth buying?
Yeah, we think so.
If you're serious about filter coffee but don't always have the time or patience to make a proper pour-over, it's a great buy.
The xBloom Studio combines a genuinely decent grinder, precision scales and an automated pouring system in one machine.
After putting a couple of them through their paces, we vouch for the consistency of results and general build quality.
Can you use your own coffee beans with the xBloom Studio?
Yeah you can use whatever beans you like. We've trialled it using our own, light roast, high quality speciality coffee.
I reckon if you put really oily dark roast stuff through it you'll need to clean it extra frequently.
What about these Xpod things?
We don't make them, so never mind the Xpod.
Can you share xBloom brewing recipes?
Yep, and it's probably our favourite feature. The xBloom app allows you to create, save and share brewing profiles with other users. We're building a library of Cuppers Choice recipes so customers can brew our coffees using the same settings we've developed at the roastery.
Does the xBloom Studio have a built-in grinder?
Yes, as described above it's got a 48mm conical stainless steel burr grinder. It's stepped with 80 different settings.
Is the xBloom Studio better than a manual V60?
It's not necessarily better than any manual pour over rig, but it's definitely more consistent, and way less faff.
Can the xBloom Studio be used in a café?
Yeah it definitely can hold up to cafe service, as it proved when we used it at Sipfest, but seeing as it's primarily targeted for the home market, I wouldn't want to bet on its longevity in heavy service.
I think it's ideal if your small cafe is looking to trial filter as a guest option.
Do you need the xBloom app to use the Studio?
No. The Studio has physical controls and an LED interface, so you can operate it without constantly reaching for your phone. The app is where things get particularly interesting, though, allowing you to create more detailed recipes, save your favourites and share them with other coffee drinkers.
Jasper Dumas
Well I'm pretty far down the coffee rabbit hole, so far that I can see the other side. The other side is the context around coffee, and the shaft of light is a future where I never need to make another Flat White.
Sources:
Cata Export Release Materials (27/08/2026)
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