The Acaia Umbra Lunar scale on the latest SCA Expo in Houston. Every day Espresso Information photograph by Howard Bryman.

Espresso-focused scale maker Acaia lately launched the Umbra Lunar, a scale with no show display. The gadget is designed to pair with different Acaia scales for show, whereas becoming the place bigger scales can’t.

The skinny gadget is 4.1 inches lengthy and broad, rises solely 0.6 inches excessive, and has a most capability of 1,000 grams (35 ounces). Acaia revealed the Umbra Lunar on the 2025 SCA Expo in Houston in April. (Learn all of DCN’s 2025 Expo protection.)

The Umbra Lunar subsequent to an Acaia Pearl. Every day Espresso Information photograph by Howard Bryman.

The delicate, matte-finished gadget may also pair with Acaia apps for utilizing telephones and different gadgets as shows.

The corporate stated the extra sturdy and energy-efficient design gives longer battery life than different scales, whereas offering house owners of Acaia Pearl scales a cheap possibility for one thing to suit extra conveniently on espresso machine drip trays the place clearance below the group could also be restricted.

“It is a nice approach to broaden with out the upper value level,” Acaia Digital Advertising Supervisor Susan Kealy informed Every day Espresso Information. “You’re not sacrificing accuracy or linearity. You’re going to get that very same precision that we try for. It’s additionally nice if you’re a touring barista; you may brew on the go along with a way more waterproof scale.”

Every day Espresso Information photograph by Howard Bryman.

Acaia can be presenting the Umbra Lunar as a further scale layer in pourover brewing situations, as a way to weigh and report each water in and brew out, or for makes use of past espresso.

“You may begin utilizing it elsewhere within the kitchen, like in the event you’re into baking and such,” stated Kealy. “There’s no show it’s important to be worrying about scuffing up.”

Following a 2013 Kickstarter marketing campaign, Acaia formally launched its flagship Pearl scale in 2014, whereas establishing a U.S. headquarters in California. After rolling out quite a few different scales, bean dosers and a grinder, the corporate has lately launched a number of gadgets designed to reinforce and lengthen the lives of its present merchandise.

Every day Espresso Information photograph by Howard Bryman.

In 2023, along with the premiere of the Orion Nano doser, the corporate rolled out Orion’s Belt, a wi-fi connectivity system that hyperlinks as many as 9 Orions to collectively grow to be an on-demand espresso mixing station.

Final 12 months the corporate launched the Acaia Astra, an information logger with colour show that features as a distant circulation meter and predictive timing gadget that integrates with present Acaia scales.

Promoting for $135, the brand new Umbra Lunar scale is at present suitable with Pearl, Pearl S and Lunar scales. Compatibility with extra gadgets is forthcoming, in keeping with the corporate.

Acaia can be planning to introduce the Umbra Lunar Duo, which is precisely twice so long as the Umbra Lunar, for weighing portafilters, espresso cupping pattern trays and different longer objects, with the next capability of 1,500 grams.

The forthcoming Acaia Umbra Lunar Duo.

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