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Just finished a batch of londinium Bolivian ,and on the last bag Of the Rwandan. Enjoyed both , possibly found the Bolivian a little roaster than I expected . I think Reiss lowered the temp on this after the batches I got though.
Pulling the Rwandan as ristretto (17 in 18 out ), has been great . Chocolate with a hint of orange , good in piccolo too as well as espresso.
After this has gone I have some square mile single origin - Kochere espresso resting .
Will be a departure for me and testing the l1 with some fruiter, lighter beans , if it hit the tasting notes of strawberry , blackcurrant and cherry cola , I'll be a happy bunny indeed .
Pulling the Rwandan as ristretto (17 in 18 out ), has been great . Chocolate with a hint of orange , good in piccolo too as well as espresso.
After this has gone I have some square mile single origin - Kochere espresso resting .
Will be a departure for me and testing the l1 with some fruiter, lighter beans , if it hit the tasting notes of strawberry , blackcurrant and cherry cola , I'll be a happy bunny indeed .
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i will replace those bolivian on monday
moral of story: never ever assume that just because a coffee is grown just a few miles away and of the same varietal that the same roast profile is appropriate
we're about 9 degrees fahrenheit lighter now, which is a huge amount in roasting terms, as you will see for yourself when you try them a second time
reiss.
That's really kind of you Reiss , i still enjoyed it a lot , just I guess with had very high expectations of it ( but your to blame for this )
Rwandan is something I would recommend everyone to try ( and trust me I have been doing ...)
i guess it is the allure of the new - everyone knows that good coffee from rwanda is excellent, but bolivia? ah, this is something new for me. and this is coffee from genuine smallholders - the premium you pay for the coffee is going back by a very direct route. i.e. you to us to mercanta (the best broker i know of in the UK, about 3 miles away from me over in Kingston-upon-Thames) to grower. the shorter the supply chain, the more of the premium goes back to the grower. Despite what Fairtrade and all the other middle men want to tell you, that is the brutal economic reality of it
i try to apply what i learnt in economics papers all those years ago, i.e. the value of specialisation. Mercanta are specialists in the selection of premium green coffee from around the globe. i pay them the premium they ask because it is the most economic way to source the coffee. it is far less expensive for me to pay Mercanta the premium they ask than for me to try and replicate their infrastructure and try to source the coffee directly myself, both in terms of capital cost and also risk management issues. its the same with the delivery of the goods to you - we pay DHL the premium they ask for - we don't try to replicate their infrastructure - just daft. its the same with green coffee.
Once again thanks for the kind offer of the Bolivian . I'll look forward to trying the later batch after it's rested ,a nd I'll come back with my thoughts on the the roasts .