Data Sheet

Bella Barista
Nene Court, The Embankment,Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 1LD
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They remembered to place access ports
in the frame below the heating element of
each boiler
This means you won’t have to remove the boilers to change
the heating element
Two protective thermostats, one on each
boiler. I am almost 90% certain they can
be reset once tripped, but obviously
couldn’t try it out!
Having high limit thermostats should reduce the incidence of
failure due to fill and level problems. A small detail, but one
that could save an expensive repair bill
Strong Steamer with a nice single tip
steam wand.
Steamed 400ml of water from 5c to 60 c in around 70
seconds (similar to an Isomac Millennium) and easy to steam
small or large quantities of milk and micro-foam successfully.
Wand is good for beginners or more experienced users
The double portafilter holder comes ready
assembled and spouts in the right place.
Heavy and of good quality.
It is unusual to only have one on a machine of this level, but
single and double filter baskets are included as is a rubber
disk to seal the portafilter basket for backflushing. Bella
Barista are considering offering two as standard
The water feed tube has a water
softening filter already attached
One already fitted to the pipe and a second bonus one in the
box (maybe they made a mistake, but I was pleased to have
two)
Drawing water is good, nice and smooth Wand is sufficiently long and with a good range of movement,
so that steam does not burn your hand when drawing water
like some machines
The review Expobar Brewtus II was
running at average of 1.0 bar. Nice to see
both a boiler pressure and brew pressure
gauge
Because the steam boiler is
separate the modest 1.0 bar
is ample for your steaming
needs
Reasonably sized cup warming tray, but
because the machine is so tall, becomes
fairly useless under kitchen cupboards.
A shorter foot would help.
Drip tray is nicely finished and blends
well at the front
In addition it’s a very
generous size, the largest of
any machine reviewed so far.
It actually holds a massive
2.5 litres!
The water tank platform and switch is
hinged at one end and only uses a single
spring.
This design seems to eliminate the rattles and the simplicity
of design appears to be reliable and efficient. I certainly
preferred it to the more usual 4 spring design seen on other
prosumer espresso machines