Barista Bitch Dialing In

Roasted 03-22-24 Natural Geisha  Grapefruit, Lemon, Tea like astringency and spice.  I always struggle with Luminous's symbols especially on the 50g bags. 

Roasted 04-01-24 Geisha  Natural  "The Lamastus family have been growing coffee in the Boquete region of Panama for over 100 years and have won the Best of Panama competition five times with their Geisha. Wilford Lamastus and his son, Wilford Jr., manage the family's three farms high up in the cloudy rainforest of the Boquete region, on the edge of the Volcan Baru National Park. Elida Estate was their first farm to be planted with Geisha back in 2005, and they have been producing some of the best Geisha in the world ever since. In 2018 and 2019, Geisha from Elida won both the washed and the natural categories in the Best of Panama competition, something never seen before! This Geisha was processed using the traditional natural method and packed with delicious fruit notes." Tropical fruit, mango, black currant and lemongrass. Proud Mary sure does love Panamian coffees so much that I struggle to keep them straight. This one was very good, definitely not worth the price, but...

Roasted 03-20-24 Geisha Washed Juicy, Oroblonco, jasmine tea and lingering aftertaste.  Very refreshing. 

Roasted 12-01-23 Geisha Natural Jasmine, Peach, Black Teal and astringent.  This was quite boring for me. 

Roasted 03-01-24 Geisha Washed Jasmine, Honey sweetness, Mandarin and Peach. 

 Roasted 06/23/23 Lemon, Milk chocolate, green tea and buttery. 

Roasted 06/16/23 Pineapple, Orange Blossom Water, candied Citrus, very juicy and vibrant. 

 Blackcurrant, Cotten candy, passion fruit and plum.

Roasted 03/02/23 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 43. Coffee flower, honey, milky tea, cherry, & peach. I went coarser then I normally like to go and was not disappointed. I haven't been that impressed with my Proud Mary Deluxe subscription and often think that my water is at fault, my water is relatively hard, but I actually enjoyed this.  I have been to lazy to play around with my water, I often find at home filtered or purified water leaves coffee too anemic for my taste and never really cared for Third Wave Water enough to use it often. 

Roasted on 12/01/22 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 36. Jasmine, mandarin, meyer lemon and passion fruit. 

Roasted on 07/23/22 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 46. Sweet white grapes, chocolate, tropical and floral. I loved it. 

Roasted on 07/23/22 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 46. Strawberry, truffles, tropical, peach and very sweet. 

Roasted on 06/01/22 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 44. Chocolate, jasmine, honey and lemongrass. Not a fan. It was pretty lackluster. I still have a subscription to Proud Mary Coffee even though I have had maybe two coffees from them in the last year that I enjoyed. The others have been either ok, but not worth the price or bad.  I feel like they constantly send out mediocre geishas that I am always surprised at they claim they are deluxe coffee. I tried playing around a lot with my water composition and I cannot find anything that improves them. 

I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 47. Not really impressed with this as a pour over, it feels like it would be perfect as an slightly orthodox espresso. Lots of chocolate notes throughout, light brief floral notes and some light apricot sweetness. 

I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 45. Nectarine, jasmine, lemonade and currants. Not the biggest fan of this one, but it isn't bad. It just feels lackluster in a good, but not memorable way. 

I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 44. Very juicy, some black tea-like astringency, followed by loads of fruit flavors like peach, mandrin oranges and guava as well as floral notes at the end.

Roasted 10/01/21 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 42. Jasmine, nectarine, key lime pie and it was very clean. I think I am burning out geishas. 

Roasted 07/28/21 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 39. Very wine like, black currant, starfruit and a lingering taste that the closest thing I can think of is sangria. 

Roasted on 07/27/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Niche Zero grinder. My recipe is 28g coffee, 400g hot water not necessarily aiming for any particular time, but somewhere between four and five and half minutes. I try to do a 50g bloom in the first 45 seconds then three or four more pours. 43. Lots of brightness. Grape at the front, however it isn't sweet grape, almost wine like, plum, citrus and pineapple