Milwaukee

In Milwaukee on a layover today.  A few blocks walk from my downtown Hilton layover hotel, I found by googling:

Stone Creek Coffee

List of observed geek cred:

-the door handle was a used portafilter bolted to the wood door, i've not seen this before, cool
-the machine was a four-group La Marzocco Linea
-there were two grinders, a K30 Vario used primarily, and a doserless Super Jolly that i did not see used at all.  i bet it had decaf in it.
-there was an AeroPress (good geek sign), and a dedicated pourover grinder.  they made an aeorpress drink for a customer, and weighed both the dose and the extraction
-i ordered (as always), a shot of espresso and small-amount, milk drink (machiatto, cortado, gibraltar, cappucino, etc...)  the shot was bright and third-wavey the way i like them, an indication that the beans are not too dark.
-the barista did not weigh either the dose or the extraction (things i do at home), but i asked her and she does weigh the dose from time to time as a calibration check.  she said she extracts by volume, and has a little beaker she uses to check on volume every so often so she can adjust the machine to reproduce that volume
-there were no oddities or foibles in her prep technique.  she dosed straight into the bottomless portafilter and did a stockfleth move and a standard, single-stage tamp without overpolishing or rapping the tamper against the portafilter after a partial tamp