Modbar Espresso EP

The Company

Modbar started with two bandmates in a basement. In the early 2000s, Corey Waldron — guitarist by night, barista and roaster by day — kept thinking about the disconnect between the craft going into a drink and what the customer actually saw: a big countertop machine blocking the view. Combined with bassist Aric Forbing's experience as a machine pattern engineer, that frustration became a genuinely new way to build an espresso machine, with the inner workings moved entirely under the counter. La Marzocco was an early investor from Modbar's first showing in 2007, and has taken an increasingly active role since 2016 — today Modbar and La Marzocco work closely together across sales, service, marketing, and manufacturing, and Modbar's espresso systems are built on R&D shared directly with the Linea PB and Linea Mini.

The Product

Espresso EP is built around the same gear pump used in the La Marzocco Strada EP — precise enough to shape a genuinely unique extraction curve for every coffee you run, not just deliver a fixed pressure profile. Built-in USB ports let you store and share extraction profiles, so a recipe dialled in on one machine can be replicated exactly across every location in a multi-site operation.

A multi-function brew lever, heated grouphead, and shot timer give your barista full manual control over the extraction as it happens, while 3-zone PID temperature control and two progressive boilers hold that control steady even as demand climbs. The sleek chromed tap can be customised to match your bar's aesthetic exactly, and a real-time temperature and pressure readout means you're never guessing what the machine is actually doing mid-shot. Auto-backflush and rinse timing round out a system built for baristas who want to actively shape every extraction, not just trigger one.

Strada-level gear pump precision, profile sharing built in — Espresso EP is for the café that treats extraction as a craft worth perfecting and repeating exactly.

Who It's Built For

For the specialty café — or multi-location group — that wants genuine pressure profiling control at the bar, with the ability to save and share exact recipes across every site and every barista. It's built for a team serious enough about extraction to want a unique curve per coffee, not a single fixed pressure setting.

It also suits an operation focused on training consistency — USB profile sharing means a head barista's dialled-in recipe transfers exactly, without every new hire needing to relearn it by feel.

Specifications

Summary

Espresso EP is the choice for a café that wants full pressure-profiling control and the ability to save and share exact recipes across every barista and every site — Strada-level precision, engineered specifically for teams who treat extraction as a craft.

Rent from R160 per day

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