Beans: Round Hill San Pedro #1
Adjustments
- Grind size: 1Zpresso QS @ 80 (888.89μm, Burr Distance: 60.0mm)
- Grind Type: Slow Feed
- Water to bean Ratio: 15.0:1 (240g)
- Flavour Pour %: 45
- Flavour Pours Ratio: 1:1
Comments:
- This week I have been humbled by the bean. Thought I was getting a handle on it, then had disaster after disaster.
- Yesterday, though, I got some new beans
- These are delicious beans
- I think the moral of the story is ‘When things are going wrong, buy stuff’
- At the risk of under-extraction, I went with a super light touch in order to see what flavours exist without them being overpowered by bitterness.
- The grind size is at the upper limit of what should be considered for a pour over, and well over that of a V60.
- The pours are spaced close together.
Method: Experiment 16-03-04
- 1st Pour (Flavour): 54.0g in 10s (total: 54.0g)
- 3 Medium Swirls
- Wait 25s
- 2nd Pour (Flavour): 54.0g in 10s (total: 108.0g)
- Wait 25s
- 3rd Pour (Body): 132.0g in 10s (total: 240.0g)
- 1 Light Swirl
- Bed Clear: 02:15
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s that delicious boozy wine smell. Also some cloves, so mulled wine, which is great because I love Christmas.
First Taste: A nice big bright opening. The whiskey is in there, and some milk chocolate notes on the way out. Just a really pleasant evening reading a good book in my favourite armchair by the fire.
As suspected, though, it is somewhat underdeveloped (the coffee, not the fire).
Second Taste: Getting even bigger. Raspberries, pineapple, and a long lingering boozy finish just leaving the most amazing aftertaste. There are other notes that are triggering sense memories but that I can’t yet place on the Coffee Flavour Wheel. The only solution, of course, is to drink more of this stuff until my brain figures it out.
Rating:
🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
This is an exceptionally good cup of coffee with all of the unique flavours are going a long way to make up for the lack of body. The whiskey finish especially is an absolute delight and just sticks around for ages.
Unchanged Settings
- Coffee weight: 16g
- Water temperature: 88°C (190.4°F)
- Filter paper: Hario V60 01 Brown
- Funnel warming water: 400mm @ 88°C (190.4°F)