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Just bought my first pound of medium roast decaf beans from my favorite local roaster a few days ago. It looks very similar in color and weight to the caffeinated roast that I always buy from them. Based on that, I weighed out 18 gr and single dosed it through my grinder looking...
All the coffee I order online has been shipped usps and other than December of last year delivery has been 2 days coast to coast. I just read that changes are coming in the form of temporary price increase and extended delivery times for certain items.
I understand this is quite subjective, and I'll most likely continue to enjoy just a little bitterness in my coffee. I was watching James Hoffmann's video, A Beginner's Guide to Coffee Tasting , today:
At 17:35, he says:
This struck me as really uncharacteristic of James....
I have a bunch of single dose tubes with valves which I love. I am using them to store beans after I open a new bag (roughly 4-7 days after roast date).
What happens the valves fail?
Is air able to get in?
Are the valves even necessary for beans 5+ days old?
There has been a good amount of talk about Black and White Roasters on the What is wow'ing you? mega-thread so I thought I would give them a try. Big thanks to IMAWriter for bringing this to everyone's attention over on that thread.
I have felt like I have had a lot of good coffee this year, but nothing that has really wow'd me. So I am just wondering if you guys could point in me in the direction of some exceptional coffee, only caveat is that I am not comfortable with light roasted espresso as my Preciso...
Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I know there are several threads on Italian-style espresso on this forum, but some of that information (about roasting, in particular) is quite technical and not very accessible for a beginner like myself.
