Barista Bitch Dialing In

Roasted on 05/22/22 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. 40. This is something of a strange one. As a Moka Java I don't enjoy it, drinking it black I found it a little lacking getting mostly chocolate notes and the barest hint that there are some fruit notes. However adding a little milk, it improved significantly. Lots of red wine, blackberry, milk chocolate and something like orange, but not quite.  Again I think I prefer a normal moka java, that has only chocolate and berry notes (like Counter Cultures), but this is super interesting and I was not prepared for it. When I think of moka javas I think of African South American blends, maybe the absence of an African and presence of a Yemen is throwing me for a loop....