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| Balance | Balanced |
| Roast level | Medium |
| Country | Brazil-Guatamala |
| Variety | Arabica |
| Processing | Natural-Honey |
| Tasting notes | Chocolate, Pistachio, Caramel, Creamy |
| Place of purchase | CherryDog |
| Weight | 200g |
| Density | 1.4.5 |
| Appearance | Small, Medium Golden Brown Bean |
| Brittleness | Breaks easily under the thumb |
| Fragrance | Chocolate and a little cardboardy |
A better more balanced shot, but at some point in this shot the water tank ran dry. Still got 30g out, but it’s probabky affected the flavour and you can see the temperature and flow going strange so I don’t think I can read much into this shot.
However, the shot was reasonably balanced. Not much crema and the taste is a kinf of boring standard coffee shop flavor. I like the single origin Brazil Fazenda Toucan from Cherrydog better.
Blend: Brazil Fazenda Toucan Natural Process + Guatemala Honey Process
The bean colour is a rcch golden brown which often works out as a flavour I like
There’s obviously 2 different beans in here of different sizes - medium and small.
Breaks easily under the thumb which suggests there will be a lot of fines which point toward grinding coarser. Seems similar to the Brazil Toucan, so might base initial grind and profile on that. UPDATE: Grinding at 1.3.5 gave a very slow extraction. Seems like the fines theory was right!
I don’t trust CherryDog roast dates. They don’t write on the bag and seem to make something up when I ask them. Previous experience with varying freshness levels backs this up. I might be wrong, but very suspicious.