In this thread you can share what new coffee, equipment, techniques etc. you have tried this week.
What have you enjoyed and what didn’t you like? Have you learned anything new?
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! I hope any Canadians who are celebrating today have a great day doing whatever it is you love to do on Thanksgiving.
No surprises to anyone here, I’ve been mostly brewing soup and now my red, tea-like pour overs. They’ve been very fun and really highlight the best parts in light roasts, in my opinion.
The robot has even reached your profile picture
Yeah I decided to change things up a bit, I’ll probably change it again soon to a bit of a better picture of the robot but I plan on keeping the robot the profile picture for a while.
I received my Bialetti 4 cups moka pot compatible with induction hob. Instruction manual says to brew and discard coffee 3 times before first real use. A bit wasteful, I used some low quality beans for this and it was an opportunity to get familiar with the heat settings and timings.
Next time I should be ready to make a decent brew.
A bit similar, when I got my new grinder I read you should grind ~3kg of coffee to season the burrs before actually drinking anything from it. Well, that’s massively wasteful, so I didn’t do that, but for my first maybe 300g I mostly just did cheap coffee and continued to use my hand grinder for nicer beans. Not sure if it made a big difference or not, but I’m happy with my cup quality now.
3kg of coffee?!? This seems totally excessive.
That’s what I thought too. But I’d read it on many different places, so maybe there is some merit to it. With that being said, I’m still not wasting 3kg of coffee. I’ll just see it as my cups getting better with time.
I finally finished a very dark batch of beans I bought because the packaging sounded fine.
These beans actually smelled like tuna when ground and tasted extremely harsh in espresso. They were so oily that I even had to clean the hopper of my grinder afterwards.
I am finally back to light roast coffee and I really missed it. I have also ordered coffee online for the first time. Very excited to see how it is when it arrives
I had a bag like that recently too. It was not a pleasant experience at all.
