The Bentwood Vertical 75 grinder. All images courtesy of GH Grinding & Brewing Solutions.
A new commercial grinder called the Vertical 75 is slated to launch later this summer, courtesy of a collaboration between Swiss grinder maker Bentwood and North Carolina-based equipment seller GH Grinding & Brewing Solutions.
Outwardly identical to Bentwood’s distinctive debut grinder, the Vertical 63, which centers on vertically oriented 63-millimeter burrs, the Vertical 75 fits a pair of 75-millimeter burrs.
The pre-breaker auger and grinding chamber are enlarged to accommodate bigger burrs, which combine to output up to 5 grams per second in the filter range of grind fineness. That’s nearly double the output speed of the Vertical 63, yet with an identical footprint and using the same motor.
“What we were looking for was some more speed,” GH Grinding & Brewing Solutions Founder Gary Horne told Daily Coffee News. “Everybody thinks you’ve got to go to motor speed. You don’t have to go to motor speed. You’ve got to figure out the output of your grinding chamber.”
The Vertical 75 maintains the 63’s straight-through vertical path for beans from the hopper to the receptacle, and an adjustment system whose analog numerical display corresponds to the particle distribution’s peak particle size in microns at that setting.
Founded by former Hemro Group executive Manuel Maimann-Stern in 2017 in Switzerland, Bentwood developed the Vertical 63 with Germany-based engineers and manufacturing in Treviso, Italy. Today, the machines are made in Switzerland using almost entirely Swiss components.
After originally launching in Europe, the Vertical 63 later debuted in the United States in 2021 via distribution from GH Grinding & Brewing Solutions.
The first public display of the Vertical 75 occurred at the SCA Expo in Houston in April of this year, where it largely flew under the radar, being so easily mistaken for a Vertical 63 while also standing alongside Bentwood’s current marquee release, the grind-by-weight H75 grinder.
Bentwood Founder Manuel Maimann-Stern
Sales of the Vertical 75 will launch exclusively in the United States later this summer via GH Grinding & Brewing Solutions. The final price, as yet unannounced, is aimed to be nearly the same as the Vertical 63, Horne said. The Vertical 63 currently sells through GH for $2,435.
“If people eventually want the 75 around the world, we want them to have what they want, too,” said Horne. “It won’t be exclusive just for [GH]. It was just a concept that I went to Manuel with and said, ‘look, what if we try this?’ And we did, and we had success.”
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Howard Bryman
Howard Bryman is the associate editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
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