What are you brewing this weekend?
Post pictures, names, descriptions, recommendations, whatever you want to share that you think will help others.
May your brew be satisfying and your weekend restful.
Volcanica Coffee, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe. I would completely recommend
I’m putting the Bali Island through the Robot and the Colombia is for a pour-over. Havn’t tried the Malawi, yet, but happy mug doesn’t usually let me down.
Bali blue moon is one of my favorites. I don’t like happy mug, though. Their quality is ok, I received a rock in one of my bags once, and the owner is kind of a dick who doxxes his customers on his blog. His employees, however, have always been awesome.
Wow, fully unacceptable.
Agreed. This is why I stopped using them, but I won’t shun anyone else for using them. We each have different tolerances for these types of behavior, and, for me, it surpassed the tolerance.
Their coffee is pretty good, though…
Yikes I hadn’t heard about the doxing. Thankfully I haven’t had any issues with rocks. I need to keep a better eye out though.
Yeah, I found it on their blog and thought it was strange. Then saw some people complaining about it on Reddit back in the day, and it came together in my head that that’s what he was doing. Not cool at all.
As for the rock, I found it accidentally. I dropped the bag on the counter and a few beans and a rock fell out. So glad I dropped the bag haha
I have a blend of Brazil, Guatemala, and Ethiopia that I received as a gift. The bag says it’s a medium roast, but it’s definitely on the darker side. It’s nice and rich with milk, but I’m not getting any floral notes from the Ethiopian part of the blend. That being said, I find 3-way blends generally interesting, and some of the best espresso I’ve had were from a blend of African + Central American + South American coffees!
Tinker - Zing blend. In the moka pot this weekend
Looks delicious! How do you like it?
I’ve recently decided to take a tour of my local roasters’ espresso blends. The first two candidates have been:
4th Level Roasters’ Espresso Blend. Not terrible, but $18/lb, darker than I prefer, and “robusta forward” in that great body but unfortunate tire-fire flavor sort of way, so I’m glad I only went for an 8oz bag and I don’t think I’ll get it again.
Nate’s Coffee’s Nate’s Espresso Blend which is $15/lb, and delicious. Balanced, not too dark, good mouthfeel. I’m having to dial a bit, it’s pulling a slow shot at my usual starting settings, but even the slow ones were tasty and they’re just getting better as I dial the grind out toward a 30ish second shot.
That’s what I need to do. I usually get my bags online, but there are some awesome roasters in and around my areas of travel. Nates looks amazing, by the way, and I might just order a couple bags.
Possible extra bonus of local roasters: Nate’s (and, AFIK, not uncommon with roasters that run a coffeeshop storefront) has a deal where you get a drip, coldbrew, or $2 credit on a fancier drink when you buy a pound at their brick and mortar. Their relative location makes it a nice early afternoon break for me to go pick up.
That’s awesome! The roasters I know of don’t do that, but meh. I would regardless haha
Ran out of beans and my partner brought home Blue Bottle beans and I had very low expectations given the bag was from a big box store. Sacrilege. But actually the cappuccino I made tasted pretty close to their taste in store so I’m impressed at the consistency.
I like blue bottle, when they’re on sale. I don’t feel that their (black coffee / plain espresso) flavor warrants the non-sale price tag. BUT!! The fact that they exist adds another layer of options to our brethren, and I love that. I know several people who absolutely love blue bottle. Nothing wrong with that!
I’m brewing some cxffeeblack Uwacu - it’s a 72 hour anaerobic fermentation processed coffee from Rwanda. Tasting notes are sweet tarts, fruity pebble ceral milk, and watermelon jolly rancher, but to me it’s just floral and fruity. I’ve been trying my hand at iced lattes lately - a doubleshot over ice with a healthy amount of whole milk, but this coffee goes well as a hot Caffè Americano, or straight latte. It’s perfect jet black as a pour over as well.
Really, anything from cxffeeblack is phenomenal - Once this bag goes, I’ll pick up their Guji Mane.
I also have some of the Onyx echelon subscription coffee - which was a bit of a splurge/reward for a promotion in December. So far it’s been great… but I’m getting a bit tired of only pour over coffee (thus the lattes above).
