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Roasted on 02/17/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Baratza Encore 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. 15. I forgot I tried this one before, but I feel pretty similar to beforehand that it has a lot of chocolate-nougat notes with a dry acidity throughout and the barest hint of smokey cardamom. I think I could have gone coarser around 17, but it looses some of its clarity. 

Using a Niche Zero Grinder and an Anza espresso machine at 23, 18.3g in, 27 seconds and 50g out. I am not completely happy with how this turned out, it was a much bigger shot than I generally like and I feel that I had to keep going coarser. It was slightly muddy tasting, dark chocolate at the front and some plumot. 

Roasted on 02/09/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Baratza Encore 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. 13. Lots of dark chocolate with hints of guava. I was surprised at how dark this was roasted and I could still get fruit notes out of it. I have a feeling this will be better as an espresso. 

Using a Niche Zero Grinder and an Anza espresso machine at 19, 17.8g in, 29 seconds and 35g out. Tangy plum with lots of chocolate and rose at the end. I rather enjoyed this is I generally don't care for coffees with chocolate in them, but the rose notes while brief and fleeting were incredibly novel. 

Using a Niche Zero Grinder and an Anza espresso machine at 20, 18.5g in, 29 seconds and 27-31g out. Very sharp, slightly unbalanced, but pleasant nevertheless. Sharp citrus at the front, followed by milk chocolate, plum and tart tangerine at the end. I rather enjoyed it, the flavors were rather clean and while I feel I could have done more to make it more balanced I felt that I lost a lot of the cleanness and citrus notes.

Roasted on 01/12/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Baratza Encore 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. 15. I might want to go slightly coarser, but think dark chocolate at the front, followed by berry acidity, some floral notes and a tad smokey.  I do not have much left, but I think going slightly coarser will give this a little more vibrancy, but I am afraid the smoke note might be inherent to the coffee and no mater what I adjust it will be present. 

Roasted on 01/12/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Baratza Encore 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. 14. Lots of tangy tamarind notes in the front, with a weird grain like tastes that quickly disappears with a pleasant tart acidity throughout and a hint of fig at the end. While this was very aromatic I wish I could get a slightly cleaner tasting cup, nevertheless I think this would be nice as a daily drinker. 

Roasted on 01/12/2021 I brewed this in a Kalita wave using notneutral filters with a Baratza Encore 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. 13. Lots of berry notes (more of a berry medely than anything specific), fresh bread, sweet wine and a tangerine finish. I enjoyed it, I struggle with whether or not to call this one a berry bomb generally when I do I think of a very crisp coffee with intense flavors whereas this isn't quite there. 

Using a Niche Zero Grinder and an Anza espresso machine at 22.5, 18.5g in, 27 seconds and 24g out. Mostly crisp sweet grapefruit, a bit too thin tasting though. Not quite as good as the last time I had it.

Using a Niche Zero Grinder and an Anza espresso machine at 22, 18.1g in, 31 seconds and 24g out. Tad too tart for me, lots of sour grapefruit notes at the front that quickly turns sweet, followed by some murky floral notes and ending with some hard to narrow down herby notes. I regret using this as an espresso, I feel that it would be much better as a pour over.