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Originally Posted by californiagrown
^^ DAMN that is about the cheapest gesha i have ever seen. i usually pay between $18 and $45 a pound for gesha green, so 3-5 times that cost for roasted gesha is totally within reason.
let me know how it is? super curious!
I think I saw here that the thing to do is buy 5 pounds of fresh roasted coffee, freeze, and take out one pound at a time? Do you separate the coffee into one pound bags initially? Does the coffee in the freezer need to be vacuum sealed or is a ziplock with air pressed out good enough? Should the coffee be fully thawed before grind time? Sorry lots of questions. I used stale coffee this morning and there was almost zero crema. The change from "fresh" to stale was fairly fast and drastic.
Yep, buy a 5lb bagQuote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
Freeze ASAP. Ideally, you'll buy a bag roasted to order. JBC Coffee does this and they will also give you a wholesale account if you ask. That's who I would recommend.
Vac seal into individual "weeks" of coffee (8-16 oz depending on how fast you move through it)
Ziplock is good enough, suck out excess air with a straw
Let it thaw completely (on counter the night before) before opening
Store in an airtight jobber
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Perfect, thanks for the details.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgapp
I have a lazier approach that has worked for me. I buy fresh and about ~5 days from roast I drop the whole 5lb in the freezer. Each morning I drop my daily ration of beans into the grinder and without haste drop the bad back into the freezer. Bag is at room temp for <1 minute and I grind seconds after loading. I will almost always have a few gs of beans that sit in the grinder overnight that just get ground into the next mornings first shot but don’t sweat that.Quote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
yeah this is fine, just buy good coffee and use it while it's fresh, that's 98% of the struggleQuote:
Originally Posted by Doremite
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Agreed on freshness. I grind at the dose needed for a shot if that wasn’t clear in the explanation of my approach. So ~70g of beans could be allocated from freezer into the grinder hopper on a given day but only grind ~18gs at a time.
Hmmm, interesting. Just did my first roasts that weren’t Yirg, two natural Ethiopians, and they roasted way faster. The Yirg took forever, I couldn’t hear the cracks at all so I just judged it visually and when I pulled them sooner than 11 minutes they still had the grassy taste. These new batches I pulled about 2 minutes after first crack and I think I over did them a hair due to my prior experience with the Yirg. Will post some pics tomorrow. I’ve been following the general Gene newbie advice of full bore until 1cs then back it down. I think I’ll try backing it down pre 1cs.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgapp
naturals roast faster, but they also look darker too, so if you're going off of color, chances are they're not overdoneQuote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
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Well fuck me. Ground the coffee, dumped it in the V60, started pouring water and, in my morning haze, thought "damn this is draining quick, wtf?"Quote:
Originally Posted by tgapp
Turns out my wife, who drinks coffee once every couple months decided to make a cup of french press yesterday and left the grinder on that setting. this cup of coffee sucks. Still not as bad as the kuerig cups at work, but damn i was really hoping for a treat this morning.
There's always tomorrow.
I would have been late for work.
With a good cup.
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or dump your contents in the press and wait a few more minutes?
Kenya AB
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Ethiopian Dambi Uddo
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Ethiopian Abiyot Bobea
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Results are improving. All naturals. Will try tomorrow.
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Looks good man!!Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
Where are you sourcing from?
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These are all sweet Maria’s.
The Dambi was a bit too dark. The AB was solid!
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Currently playing with a V60 01 side by side with my Aeropress. Doing a 1:15 ratio with each. Which means adding 70-100g water afterward. Hence the V60 experiment.
If I wanted to do 40g (or more) of bean in a V60, should I do an 02 or 03?
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yep, my daily is an 03 v60, 46 grams of coffee in, 740 outQuote:
Originally Posted by jm2e
i find 1:16 to be more forgiving but obviously YMMV
If I’m making 40g of coffee (600g water) I use a kalita wave. For a single cup I still use a v60 (350/21).
Bump just to say that tgapp's beans set the bar pretty high for me. I ran out of his "bullshit espresso blend" (his naming) awhile back and everything I've tried since has been a little lacking in comparison.
ha, thanks man!! i'll send my wife up with more this week or nextQuote:
Originally Posted by zion zig zag
one more argument for buying beans from a nationally recognized roaster. my coffee is good, but it's nothing compared to jbc/birdrock/paradise, whomever. those guys set the real high bar.
another happy member of TGapp's Beans Fanclub
dude sent me fkn five bags of choice beans as a get-well gift, unreal cool & kind. thank you
X3
It’s like we’ve gathered to praise our crack dealer/cult leader.
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I’m a devoted follower.
When does HaleBopp come back?
Hey OP,
Can you send my 93 y/o Mom some ground coffee ? She drinks some really shit “donut shop blend” my SIL gets for her on Amazon. I have tried talking her into getting a grinder and some good beans she might enjoy it. She thinks having a grinder is somehow unnecessary. If you can send her some pre ground that would brighten up her day. Thanks !
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praise beQuote:
Originally Posted by jm2e