coffee for mags - a coffee roasting trip report (& free mag coffee)

[jackattack]

tgapp -- as I polish off this bag -- I think it's my fave bag of beans I've ever made on espresso. Florals and chocolates and fruits. And easy to pull even on a middling setup of a Chrono and Bambino. So fucking good.

That said, all the spro in the world can keep me from new bone-headed new dad sleep-deprived shit. Last night I left the car running, keys in, on the street for 8hrs.

Awesome!

In our house, it was the mom who lost her mind, but don't tell her I told you that. She wasn't drinking any coffee though.

[mntlion]

has anyone found a USB rechargable bean grinder that goes does a fine enough grind for espresso? Using a stove top mocha pot.

looking for something to use in my small pop top camper. Too lazy to hand grind, I've tried one USB and didn't go fine enough, and have limited power to plug in.

[tgapp]

tgapp -- as I polish off this bag -- I think it's my fave bag of beans I've ever made on espresso. Florals and chocolates and fruits. And easy to pull even on a middling setup of a Chrono and Bambino. So fucking good.

That said, all the spro in the world can keep me from new bone-headed new dad sleep-deprived shit. Last night I left the car running, keys in, on the street for 8hrs.

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Ahh damn I just saw this, sorry buddy. I was out yurting (need to post pics and such).

Glad you liked it, I think it's pretty great coffee. And you should still have 6 more bags of it )

The Hamasho Natural that I posted above is just breathtakingly good as drip. Tastes like a lemon blueberry scone.

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[doebedoe]

Ahh damn I just saw this, sorry buddy. I was out yurting (need to post pics and such).

Glad you liked it, I think it's pretty great coffee. And you should still have 6 more bags of it )

The Hamasho Natural that I posted above is just breathtakingly good as drip. Tastes like a lemon blueberry scone.

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Dude that worka aneorobic is fucking wild.

[neufox47]

has anyone found a USB rechargable bean grinder that goes does a fine enough grind for espresso? Using a stove top mocha pot.

looking for something to use in my small pop top camper. Too lazy to hand grind, I've tried one USB and didn't go fine enough, and have limited power to plug in.

Have you used a good hand grinder? A good one isn’t too much work. I’d say my good hand grinder takes 1/4 the time my old cheap ceramic burr one did. Or get a hand grinder and add a drill to the mix. Just don’t spin too fast.

[jackattack]

Have you used a good hand grinder? A good one isn’t too much work. I’d say my good hand grinder takes 1/4 the time my old cheap ceramic burr one did. Or get a hand grinder and add a drill to the mix. Just don’t spin too fast.

I can grind 35g and prep the v60 before the water is boiling using the 1zpresso.

[caulfield]

I need a new kettle

if anyone was dying to know what happened, I ended up with this cute unit. The handle gets kinda hot and I lost precision on both temp and pour, but I get a serving of water at 200F-ish in a minute and it sparks joy for me, so I'm keeping it

[neufox47]

I can grind 35g and prep the v60 before the water is boiling using the 1zpresso.

Oh for sure. I’d say I still sit there waiting on the water for a good minute or two. Takes maybe 45 seconds


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[bennymac]

I posted in the espresso thread - but I recently bought the 1zpresso Q- air - it’s light, inexpensive, and effective. Basically the same metal internals as more expensive models but with plastic body.

[californiagrown]

. Or get a hand grinder and add a drill to the mix. Just don’t spin too fast.

Holy shit that's a great idea for camping. 100% gonna do that this summer.

[jackattack]

Good manual grinders are designed for low rpm’s.

[skaredshtles]

Anybody have any recommendations for a drip coffee maker? Two requirements:

* at least 10 cup
* thermal carafe (no glass on cooktop shit)

[jackattack]

Moccamaster

https://www.amazon.com/Technivorm-Mo...002S4DI2S&th=1

[doebedoe]

All of these are going to make good coffee. Moccamaster is the top dog though.

https://sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer

[neufox47]

I’ve had a moccamaster for about 5 years and it’s still great. Only thing I’d change is to add a bloom function. One nice thing about it is you can order all the pets too, so when my kid broke the plastic tabs on the brew chamber we could just order a new one.


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[JimmyCarter]

4thed on the moccamaster, love ours. Would buy again, though it seems like it could last a few decades.

[skaredshtles]

Thanks, mags - think I'm gonna go the Moccamaster route...

[neufox47]

Just make sure you still descale it. No coffee maker can last if you don’t descale (well unless you are using basically perfect water, but you will also need to descale a LOT more if your water is hard).

[mud]

Some new Colombian beans from Sweet Maria’s, been getting some great roasts from the Behmor P2 settings.

[neufox47]

Nice! Always on the lookout for more good beans. Really looking for a fruit bomb right now.


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[mud]

Just went through a few bags of this Ethiopian medium roasted to about 15% loss of weight.
https://www.sweetmarias.com/ethiopia...uddo-7626.html
Lots of positive feedback from people that are use to drinking Dunkin.

[neufox47]

Any of you roasters spraying water on beans right when they come out of the roaster? I started using a very fine small mister (same as I use for spraying beans before grinding, about .1g per spray) and spraying distilled water as they drop. The water evaporates on contact and I stop as soon as I see any accumulation of water. But it dramatically reduces the cooling time and while I haven’t done any controlled tests (2 identical roasts except use water on one). I feel like it has improved flavor clarity.

I’ve had some good graphs lately. Was super happy with this Kenyan on paper at least. Will test it out in 4-5 days.


I’ve been giving away a lot of coffee through work lately and it’s wild the beans people like vs what I like. Most of the time I feel like people prefer a basic “flat black” coffee or one with a little bit of chocolate to it over something light and fruity. I have a good client a bag of Kenya Mumwe from Royal and also a Brazilian Yellow bourbon from Royal. The Kenyan costs like 4 times what the Brazil coffee did and I’d take it everytime over the Brazilian for drip coffee and he loved the Brazilian coffee and didn’t like the Kenyan, said it was weird.

[tgapp]

Any of you roasters spraying water on beans right when they come out of the roaster? I started using a very fine small mister (same as I use for spraying beans before grinding, about .1g per spray) and spraying distilled water as they drop. The water evaporates on contact and I stop as soon as I see any accumulation of water. But it dramatically reduces the cooling time and while I haven’t done any controlled tests (2 identical roasts except use water on one). I feel like it has improved flavor clarity.

I’ve had some good graphs lately. Was super happy with this Kenyan on paper at least. Will test it out in 4-5 days.


I’ve been giving away a lot of coffee through work lately and it’s wild the beans people like vs what I like. Most of the time I feel like people prefer a basic “flat black” coffee or one with a little bit of chocolate to it over something light and fruity. I have a good client a bag of Kenya Mumwe from Royal and also a Brazilian Yellow bourbon from Royal. The Kenyan costs like 4 times what the Brazil coffee did and I’d take it everytime over the Brazilian for drip coffee and he loved the Brazilian coffee and didn’t like the Kenyan, said it was weird.

Interesting on the spritzing of beans out of the roaster - where did you come up with that? It makes sense, honestly.

That kenyan looks good; mine from two days ago crashed so fkn hard. All my other profiles have been stellar though so whatever.

There's no accounting for taste; Starbucks and Folgers have preconditioned a ton of people that good imeans hollow and roasty.

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[Spats]

has anyone found a USB rechargable bean grinder that goes does a fine enough grind for espresso? Using a stove top mocha pot.

looking for something to use in my small pop top camper. Too lazy to hand grind, I've tried one USB and didn't go fine enough, and have limited power to plug in.

I used to use one of those cheap ceramic burr grinders (available for about $10 on ebay or amazon) with a cordless drill.
It worked reasonably well.
But the grinders I posted here work far better and grind a double shot in under 20 seconds. The effort is so minimal that I've never bothered to use the drill. It takes longer to set the chuck than it does to finish grinding.

Honestly I can't imagine anything USB powered that would actually cut through a light roast.

[neufox47]

Interesting on the spritzing of beans out of the roaster - where did you come up with that? It makes sense, honestly.

That kenyan looks good; mine from two days ago crashed so fkn hard. All my other profiles have been stellar though so whatever.

There's no accounting for taste; Starbucks and Folgers have preconditioned a ton of people that good imeans hollow and roasty.

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I think I read about it a long time ago and when I upped my batch size for most beans to 800g the cooling unit on the Bullet felt under powered. I also put the shop vac at the fan discharge and use that to increase suction.

I’m still trying to figure out when I want the RoR on a profile to come way down to 3-5 degrees F per minute at the end (like the above Kenyan) and when I want a flatter profile where it finishes around 10. Right now I do the tail on city roasts and keep it flatter on full city or city +.

Speaking of crashing. This is the other Kenyan I did right before. I was following a past roast profile that had worked really well, despite no “gas dip” but the bean reacted totally different.