by GVDub on Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:34 pm
Thursday evening I roasted a half pound of the Organic Yirga Cheffe that SM was selling about a year ago (I bought 5 lbs at the time, and this is just about the last of it). Took it just barely into SC, and had the first shot of it this morning. Since I'm using the Synchrony until I get the Caravel and hand grinder in a couple of weeks, I don't have a lot of control (as in, virtually none), so I get what I get, but it's still pretty good. Just cleaned and descaled yesterday, plus did a couple extra rinse cycles on the brew path (because, like an idiot, I forgot to warm up the machine before starting the descale, so when I turned it on, it rinsed the brew path with Dezcal. No apparent harm done, but I wanted to make extra sure it was all out), so it's probably the best shot the thing is capable of doing. And it was worth it. I'm looking forward to getting the Caravel and making all the newbie mistakes, but this was still pretty damn good coffee.
"Experience is a comb nature gives us after we are bald."
Chinese Proverb