Nom de Plume Signature Blend
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Balthazar_B
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I just finished a bag of Nom de Plume Signature Blend (http://www.nomdeplumeroasters.com/shop/signature-blend). A delightful coffee!
Nom de Plume is a fairly new roaster in the Valley of the Sun, a partnership of a couple of Cartel Coffee Lab veterans (nice guys, by the way). They roast their coffees on the Probat at Press Roastery in Phoenix, and tend towards just short of Full City. Two of their three coffees are Ethiopian (their Duromina Coop is great in a press), and the Signature Blend is half Ethiopian (see a trend here?) and Guatemalan.
Dialing in this blend was pretty easy (or I was just lucky). 20 grams, 35 secs, 50% extraction, 200 F made for a very interesting and complex, multilayered shot, with a foundation of sweet chocolate and fruity berry overtones with a whiff of citrus that blended quite well. It was very nice both as an espresso and as a macchiato. This could become a regular at home.
Someone with both big flat and big conic grinders should do some blind tastings with this coffee and see how differently it brews/tastes from the two types of grinders.
Has anyone else tried NdP Signature and have any thoughts?
Nom de Plume is a fairly new roaster in the Valley of the Sun, a partnership of a couple of Cartel Coffee Lab veterans (nice guys, by the way). They roast their coffees on the Probat at Press Roastery in Phoenix, and tend towards just short of Full City. Two of their three coffees are Ethiopian (their Duromina Coop is great in a press), and the Signature Blend is half Ethiopian (see a trend here?) and Guatemalan.
Dialing in this blend was pretty easy (or I was just lucky). 20 grams, 35 secs, 50% extraction, 200 F made for a very interesting and complex, multilayered shot, with a foundation of sweet chocolate and fruity berry overtones with a whiff of citrus that blended quite well. It was very nice both as an espresso and as a macchiato. This could become a regular at home.
Someone with both big flat and big conic grinders should do some blind tastings with this coffee and see how differently it brews/tastes from the two types of grinders.
Has anyone else tried NdP Signature and have any thoughts?
- John
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