GoodShave's Coffee Journal

Wonderfully informative! Maybe during the next sale I will pick up the golden filter. Good experimenting!

Yesterday, I tried out the Daddy Got Coffee recipe for the Cafec Deep 27 Flower dripper with the Bridge City Coffee (Greenville, SC) - Uganda Sironko Micro Mill beans. I nailed the the tasting notes and mouth feel. I was amazed.

I hope one day to be able to get those results from a V60. Maybe I should be using Flower dripers instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elueROJaIqE

I made two brews this morning, both with the Bridge City Coffee (Greenville, SC) - Uganda Sironko Micro Mill beans.

The first brew was with the Cafec Deep 27 Flower Dripper using the 10g recipe from Viacheslav Druzhynin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrkkqAZ9ySM

That was the first time using that recipe and I need to work with it a bit to get it where I like it. I think I would have more circle pours and maybe just two center pours. It had a bitter hint in the finish.

I have been itching to try out the Cafec T-90 filters I bought not too long ago. I decided to get a baseline brew with my regular Cafec Abaca filter.  I used the James Hoffmann "A Better 1 Cup V60 Technique" recipe with my glass Hario V60-01 brewer. I have not used that recipe in a while but the brew was OK. I plan to try again tomorrow with the T-90 filter and see what happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oB1oDrDkHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5WQ1sZzW4o

Today's brew was with Bridge City Coffee (Greenville, SC) - Uganda Sironko Micro Mill beans using the James Hoffmann "A Better 1 Cup V60 Technique" recipe with my glass Hario V60-01 brewer and a Cafec T-90 filter. This was the first time using the Cafec T-90 filter and today's brew was better than yesterday's brew using the Cafec Abaca filter but I think today's brew was better due to remembering to do both swirls for the recipe and pouring super slow. I would need to do more side by side testing with these two filters to see which one I like better for a given set of beans. Unfortunately, I don't have enough of these beans to repeat this comparison, so it will have to wait until my next bag of beans.

The upshot is that I have 8.2g of beans left which will be perfect for the Cafec Deep 27 Flower dripper using the Daddy Got Coffee 8g recipe.

I was given a gift card to Mystic Monk Coffee by a family member and decided to try out their Ethiopian beans.

I first did two brews at 8g with the Cafec Deep 27 Flower dripper using the Daddy Got Coffee recipe to find a good starting grind size.

I then did a third brew with my glass April Brewer using the April Gabi B recipe to see about pulling some of the tasting notes.

No tasting notes so far, but I am just getting started with these beans.

Today's brew was with Mystic Monk Coffee (Meeteetse, WY) - Ethiopian beans using the James Hoffmann "A Better 1 Cup V60 Technique" recipe with my glass Hario V60-01 brewer and a Cafec T-90 filter. I think having the slow pouring ability from my Oxo electric goose neck kettle is making my Hario V60 a relevant brewer. I still have my eye on a 1 cup Cafec Flower dripper to pair with my Cafec Deep 27 Flower dripper.

I am still on the quest to get the blueberry tasting notes for the Mystic Monk Coffee (Meeteetse, WY) - Ethiopian beans. The tasting notes were labeled as having "notes of intense blueberry and bright citrus". I have yet to get any blueberry notes at all but I have managed some citrus.

I tried two different brewers this morning (and three brews):
Varia FLO dripper using the Kurasu logo 'Fast 2' screen and the Alternative Brewing 4:6 recipe with a target of heightened acidity (more brightness) and a light body
Timemore B75 with a Timemore filter and using the Coffee Chronicler B75 recipe

Still no blueberry notes. The quest continues.

MaineYooper I did another AeroPress brews this morning as a follow up to my comparison between the AeroPress (silver) stainless steel filter and their gold tone titanium-coated stainless steel filter.

I was brewing with the preground Wicked Joe Organic Coffee Co. (Topsham, Maine) - Guatemala Huehuetenango coffee using the Wonderstate Coffee recipe.

In a previous post I mentioned using this recipe with the regular (silver) stainless steel filter and mentioned that 1/4 of my coffee cup was full of brew water before I was able to seal the chamber with the plunger.

Today, I repeated the brew with the AeroPress gold tone filter and examined the amount of water that wound up in my cup before I was able to seal the chamber with the plunger. The gold tone filter filled my cup 1/4 of the amount compared to the silver filter. In other words, the gold tone filter was much better at keeping water in the chamber to brew than the silver filter did.

I ran across these brew guides from Ceremony Coffee and liked the added guidelines for brewing older coffee. I plan to give some of these a try.
https://ceremonycoffee.com/pages/brew-guides/

I decided to try one of the brew guides from Ceremony Coffee today (see my previous post for a link to all their brew guides).

I went with their (hot) immersion brew guide:
https://ceremonycoffee.com/pages/immersi...?ref=shown

I used my Hario Switch but any steep and release brewer would work with the recipe.
I am still working through my Mystic Monk Coffee (Meeteetse, WY) - Ethiopian beans.

I might try the drip cone brew guide next.
https://ceremonycoffee.com/pages/drip-cone-brew-guide

The Hoffmann 'Better 1 Cup V60' recipe worked the best for these beans so far.