- The best rated Sage Barista Touch Impress now has a cold espresso mode
- It promises rich, rounded cold espresso for cocktails and ice cream targets
- We will soon test the new machine to see how it compares to its rivals
Sage Barista Touch Impress (known as Breville Barista Touch Impress in the US and Australia) has long had a place in our guide to the best espresso machines, and now it is even more versatile thanks to a new cold espresso mode that should be ideal for producing ice cream and coffee-based cocktails (rather than a shot of hot espresso. ice cream).
The Sage Barista touch impresses with cold extraction has all the other features we appreciated in the original machine, which makes the extraction consistently good espresso as simple as possible.
These include Impress Puck system, which helps you dose and tamp your coffee properly (crucial to avoiding over or lower extraction), plus the Auto Milq system, which helps you create creamy foam without having to master the art of using a manual steam rod.
Cool beans
Cold brewing coffee machines are becoming more and more popular and promise to deliver authentic-tasting cold-extracted coffee in just a few minutes (rather than overnight, as with traditional cold brewing). For example, Jura Z10 uses pulses of water at high pressure to extract freshly ground coffee, and in my tests I found the results surprisingly tasty and well rounded.
The excellent Ninja Luxe Café (currently sitting in the first place in our Roundup of the best coffee machines) also has a cold brewing mode, as well as the compact de’longhi la specialist in touch, although its cold espresso is not as fully the pants as from the prices Jura Machine.
I test Sage Barista Touch Impress with cold extraction very soon and brings you a complete review as soon as I finish putting it through its pace to see how it compares to its rivals. It is available today directly from Sage for £ 1,699.95.
