Inspired by a thread on another forum I frequent (non-coffee related) I'd like to start a thread where everybody can shortly describe their wake-up shot of the day. After all, for most of us this is where our day really starts.

My morning shot was a bit fast (donut extraction by the looks of the largish pin hole in the puck), but surprisingly the taste was very good. Nice caramel and dark chocolate, without the bitterness I expected from looking at the extraction. The beans are starting to show their age (bag opened 12 days ago), but nothing a slight tightening of the grind cannot fix.

All in all a good start of the day!

My mother made it on the Peppina. Of course it tasted great.

This mornings coffee:
yesterdays roast, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, perhaps roasted a TEENY bit dark, only slightly shiny surface. Pulled as a down dose restretto, nice thick body for how little coffee was in the basket, cocoay with barely a hint of overroasted bitter notes. I have high hopes for tomorrows DAY 2 morning coffee of this batch.

Great

Yesterday I sent my Portafilter to get chopped by Lino, so today's morning coffee is Chemex! Caffe Fresco's Ethiopia (espresso) coffee is tasting quite good. I think my chemex might be broken though... there's no crema!

Type while drinking first cup of the morning Panama Esmeralda Gesha No.5 '08 Americano. Love the stuff. FWIW greens kept vac' sealed and frozen in 4# bags for half capacity roast batch, only 16# left oh no! Roasted in Nor'West Coffee's USRC 3k, that would be me of course.

I'm playing with Sweet Marias Liquid Amber Espresso blend this week. I had two absolutely delicious shots before work that were mostly caramel with an nice smoky flavor with background fruit hints. The blend has monsooned coffees so I've been pulling my shots with 16-16.5 gm at higher temps then normal (~203).

For work I made a press pot of Guatemala Huehuetenago (FC roast) which is a favorite with milk chocolate and biscuit. Its a rich balanced cup to my tastes.

7oz latte from home-roasted SM's Monkey Blend (7 days post-roast). Still new to the roasting world - if anyone has any sure-fire roasting profiles for monkey blend (using a gene cafe) i'd love to hear them.

Shot was pulled on this recently installed beast:



Weighs more than my car, but fun to muck around with!

Local Roaster's ( Legacy Chocolates) Yergh full city+, 6 days since and pulled on a Cremina. One down the hatch and another as Latte while I sit here. Very berry and butterscotch, no hint of chocolates. Nice finish as butterscotch.
Hope all you had shots as good!
Cheers
-Richard

i was making a ethiopian darartu illili from harrar cappuccino for a customer. the shot was an accidental "face melter" 42 seconds for ~1 ounce. i told her i was going to re-make her shot and then drank the "face melter" it was tasty.

heheheh sometimes you just have to take one for the team.

jon