Your Morning Mug

[Cutterman]

Picked this up from a local roaster who calls City+ "painfully light" roast...

Anything after just touching second crack and it all starts tasting the same to me.

[gearchow]

You guys have it good. My typical workday starts with coffee supplied by Canteen food service. Brewed from a pre-packaged, pre-ground 8-10 cup pot sized vacuum/CO2 packed bag. Their Colombian coffee is drinkable when freshly brewed, but I avoid the French Roast which can only be drank under a layer of cream. So I really appreciate the weekend or an occasional work from home day or one cup before heading into the workplace.

Luxury! Many a day in the long ago, I've had to get coffee from a vending machine. If you remembered to punch the sugar and cream buttons, you got a hot caffeine coffee flavored drink.

But this morning I'm drinking a PNG Baroida (SMs) that I heard a couple of snaps into 2nd. Hard to tell sometimes. I'm not getting much of a roast flavor. The trailing edge first cracks seemed to blend in with the leading edge second cracks.

-jim

[Cutterman]

The trailing edge first cracks seemed to blend in with the leading edge second cracks.

-jim

It is hard for me to tell sometimes too, especially with my hood cranking over the stove and the noise of the roaster. Weather permitting, I like to roast on my deck, then I can really listen to the roast.

[professorchaos]

45g of Illy brewed with 700g of water via a Hario V60 with Hario paper filters. Three pours - 100g, 300g and 300g.

[xraygun]

Some stuff from Texas. It was pretty good.

[StillShaving]

Enjoyed better coffee over the weekend, starting each day with Costa Rican La Armistal and ending it with a cup of Ethiopian Natural Sidamo decaf (I roasted it a bit too long but its still enjoyable). Saturday was pour over brewing method, Sunday was Presso brewing method.

[Crixus]

El Pico made in a Black & Decker 4-cup drip pot. Served in my vintage 1960s Fire-King mugs, of course.

[xXClockwork]

Addison (tx) Roasters New Guinea Kimel Estate in a French Press.

[PozzSka]

Americano made from a 50/50 blend of Daterra Sunflower Espresso and Ethiopian Yirgacheffe (Full City Roast) in my "I [heart] Coffee beans" mug.

[xraygun]

Just about to push the plunger.

[JPDyson]

Ethiopia Limu Jimma - Alaga Sekala is still going, perhaps even peaked this morning. A thoroughly enjoyable coffee.

[professorchaos]

45g of Dallmayr Crema d'Oro, Chemex, Koava Kone, 700g water 30 seconds off the boil. Three pours - 100g, 300g, 300g.

Delicious - I love this coffee.

[StillShaving]

Had a bad coffee day Sunday. I was by myself and almost out of coffee, and tried to make an espresso (presso) with the hand grinder but it was on the wrong adjustment and grinding too fine. The Presso stalled and I attempted to salvage a 2nd shot attempt with same coffee after dumping 1/2 the grounds out, but the resulting Americano was not good.

In an attempt to minimize risk of fiddling with the hand grinder and getting the adjustment wrong, I ground my last 16 grams of beans with the electric grinder but forgot that the proper setting was one or two ticks away from finest (depending on dosage weight) instead of the finest setting which I used. So again I got a stalled shot and hastily repeated the exercise of removing the top layer of coffee grinds before making another attempt to extract caffeine....I was getting desperate.

Had to roast more coffee and drink it before the beans cooled off, but I finally did get a good cup on the 3rd attempt.

[garyg]

Well, this sounds like another thread that needs subscribing .. Middle Fork Roasters Back Pedal brew .. french pressed .. just ok,

[gearchow]

Had a bad coffee day Sunday. I was by myself and almost out of coffee, and tried to make an espresso (presso) with the hand grinder but it was on the wrong adjustment and grinding too fine. The Presso stalled and I attempted to salvage a 2nd shot attempt with same coffee after dumping 1/2 the grounds out, but the resulting Americano was not good.

In an attempt to minimize risk of fiddling with the hand grinder and getting the adjustment wrong, I ground my last 16 grams of beans with the electric grinder but forgot that the proper setting was one or two ticks away from finest (depending on dosage weight) instead of the finest setting which I used. So again I got a stalled shot and hastily repeated the exercise of removing the top layer of coffee grinds before making another attempt to extract caffeine....I was getting desperate.

Had to roast more coffee and drink it before the beans cooled off, but I finally did get a good cup on the 3rd attempt.

Funny, I had a bad coffee day on Saturday - I forgot to drink a cup in the morning! By the time I realized it, it was too late for me to drink it and I had the biggest headache that evening. I caught up on Sunday.

-jim

[JPDyson]

El Salvador Finca la Montanita Bourbon, just to City. Probably should have let it coast to City+, but it's not bad. A moderate acidity and I can agree with plum as a descriptor for the fruited component. Works best in full immersion brew methods, so my new Eva Solo and my Vac-Pot have done best. Also, these are both devices I use with "filters" that allow oils to pass (metal, cloth) so that's probably a part of it.

[avsmusic1]

Tanzanian P berry - another one of my favorites

[Deltaboy]

Cafe Diario

[nemo]

Peet's Uzari African Blend this morning. (East Africa)

[StillShaving]

Enjoyed a few cups of Uganda Bugisu, brewed using an Aeropress w/paper filter, producing a very smooth and strong cup. But the same coffee was better when brewed with the Presso.