Last weekends roasts for the week

Ethiopia Organic Shakiso Sidamo "Maduro" - city+ for home and the clever dripper
El Salvador Matalapa -Puerta Zapa Microlot - again city+ for home and the clever dripper

I will pull some SO shots with the two coffees above as well later this weekend

Mexico Oaxaca Pluma WP Decaf - FC - my wife needs decafe much of the time - clever dripper
Espresso Workshop #9 - Dénouemoi - stopped just at the very first sound of second - WOW! The best workshop blend since #1
Ethiopia Idido Misty Valley (08 crop) city+ for colleagues at work
Sumatra Takengon Classic - 30 seconds into second - for my neighbours brewed coffee
My go-to home espresso blend of Brazil Moreninha Formosa, Brazil Mogiana, Guatemala La Maravilla and Ethiopia Idido Misty Valley -

I have been test roasting again

500gr PNG Wahgi
One of the most impressive SO coffees I have had the pleasure of drinking roasted 45 seconds into second crack

500gr Panama Boquete Bajo Volcancito
Nice bean @ day 5 to 8 but is best to be blended with a high body bean

KK

On sunday I roasted 13.3 oz batches of each of the following:

Brasil Morenheinha Formosa (GCBC new lot) roasted just into the first snippy-snips of C2 for espresso
Brasil Sul de Minas (same roast as above)
Uganda Bughisu (GCBC) - same roast as above

Yemen Sharasi roasted for espresso - pulled just as C2 started to roll

And for drip and presspot brewing:

El Salvador Finca Las Illusiuon - FC
Costa Rica la Amistad (from GCC) - FC
Rwanda Rwabisindu (from GCBC) - FC
Ethiopia Gr.3 Dry Process Yirga Cheffe (Sweet Marias) - FC

Moka Kadir (FC+)
El Salvador Finca Matalpa (FC)
Kenya Nyeri AA Gichatha-ini (FC+, fast and dark)
Nicaragua Limoncillo Pacamara (FC+)
Dextral Monkey (1/2 Dextral SS + 1/2 Espresso Monkey, leftovers)

Roasted on 3/27:

170gr Batches:
-Ethiopian Idido Misty Valley(City++)
-El Salvador Siberia Estate Pacamara(City++)..Had this today, using the inverted Aeropress*. Very Delicious.
-Organic Ugandan Bugisu(City++)
-Sumatra Sidikalang(City++)

227gr Batches
-Espresso Monkey(Full City+)
-Yemen Mohka Sharasi(Full City++/Vienna)..Hoping the darker roast here will bring out the goodness.. Ive been struggling with this Yemen

170gram Batches are for Brewing, 227gr are for Espresso.

*After reading Tim Wendelboe's article on the Aeropress, in the current Barista Mag, I decided to give the AP another chance. Used his brew ratio(15gr/200ml), with a fine grind. Cup was fantastic! Ten times better then doing the AP the way the instructions say too.. I havent used it in months because the coffees always came out wrong. The inverted method works great!

Alas, nothing. Life getting in the way.

This pm I roasted Moreninha Formosa "Raisin" 7.5 oz +FTO Aceh Arinagata 1 oz; then next run El Salvador COE La Montañita Pacamara 6 oz + DP Haile Selassie Sidamo then combined for espresso. Last run 8 oz hula daddy extra fancy kona for my am vac pot. The El Salvador I haven't tasted before and am almost out of Moreninha and Sidamo, they were bought for the roasting competition. Hottop P is the roaster. Currently drinking Hairbender bought last week on trip to NYC. Like to buy commercial roasts on rare visits to an area that has them, to "keep me honest."

Marvin

JonR10 wrote:On sunday I roasted 13.3 oz batches of each of the following:

Brasil Morenheinha Formosa (GCBC new lot) roasted just into the first snippy-snips of C2 for espresso
Brasil Sul de Minas (same roast as above)
Uganda Bughisu (GCBC) - same roast as above

Yemen Sharasi roasted for espresso - pulled just as C2 started to roll

And for drip and presspot brewing:

El Salvador Finca Las Illusiuon - FC
Costa Rica la Amistad (from GCC) - FC
Rwanda Rwabisindu (from GCBC) - FC
Ethiopia Gr.3 Dry Process Yirga Cheffe (Sweet Marias) - FC

Jon, I'm interested in your opinion of how the new crop of Brazil Morenheinha Formosa compares to the last crop. I'm trying to decide whether to go with Sweet Maria's Brazil MF or with Stubbie's new distro at GCBC.

I'm looking forward to roasting Bali Blue Moon (from GCBC) tomorrow. Yumm!

Steve, in Ft. Worth

I've been really enjoying the Kenya Nyeri AA Kiamabara from Sweet Marias. I havent been a fan of Kenyans in the past, but this stuff is good

I've also been playing around with my own version of a Mokha-Java.

texican wrote:Jon, I'm interested in your opinion of how the new crop of Brazil Morenheinha Formosa compares to the last crop. I'm trying to decide whether to go with Sweet Maria's Brazil MF or with Stubbie's new distro at GCBC.

I'm looking forward to roasting Bali Blue Moon (from GCBC) tomorrow. Yumm!

Steve, in Ft. Worth

SweetMarias is sold out of the Brazil MF.. I grabbed 4 pounds, I wanted to buy 20lb, and was waiting for this years crop, and I missed when it got listed.. by the time I got to it, there was a 5lb limit. It went very quick.

But, according to the thread over on GCBC, there is plenty of the MF to go 'round.

I haven't tried it out yet.. Im finishing up a couple loose end bags.. Todays roast session is the last of them:

Roast 1:
Ethiopian Guji Sidamo-~70grams
Ethiopian Bonko-~60grams
Ethiopian Harrar-~10grams
-For a Total of 170grams. All three of these were GREAT beans, and I rarely pre-blend(rarely blend at all), but, figured I couldn't make a bad cup with these on the table!

Roast 2:(JUST finished)
Guat Finca San Jose Ocana-162grams
Brazil DP Cerrado-8grams(Used solely to make it a 170gram batch)

Roast 3:(About to heat up the HTB)
Kenya AA Nyeri Ndaro-Ini-227grams.

Roast 4:
Brazil Santo Antonio Estate- Batch size depends on whether I like the 170gr or 227gr roasts better/worse. This is a GenX coffee.