After all the light roasting I’ve done in the past month and a half it is so nice to hit the dark stuff again. Sweet Maria’s Espresso Workshop #10 is a great blend to kick off our next espresso experiment. I’ve decided to go with all blends this time around. I have one or two [...]
Not my usual coffee shot to accompany a short review of my current coffee trials, but I figured I’d break it up a bit. The Ecuador Zumba Microlot Especial marks the end of our light roasting experiment.
The Burundi Kayanza Bwayi has got to be one of my favorite lighter roasted coffees to have as straight espresso. The texture is so creamy. Once you start adding water for an Americano, or milk it changes to a more delicate coffee.
The excitement that ran today waiting for FedEx to arrive with my little box full of KA-POW!s was probably a site to see. When the package finally got here I was so excited I was hardly able to open the box. In the end PolyVector had to do it. What was waiting inside was totally [...]
I’m a litte bummed I wasn’t able to get a picture of our latest coffee. This was my first time trying a “Cup of Excellence” (CoE). In fact, I’m still learning exactly what that is. From what little I have read, it is basically a region’s farmers/co-ops/etc pitting their crops against one another to see [...]
During my current light roast experiment I believe I have been able to slip a bit into Full City roasts. I don’t have a thermometer for my Behmor (which would require a massive mod undertaking I am not up for), so I cannot with 100% certainty say I actually have gotten a Full City, but [...]