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ribletman
May 13, 2021
I love this coffee, roasted twice in my Hottop KN-8828B-2K+. Both times I maintained a smooth profile with around 33% in browning phase pre-first crack, and around 21% in development phase, ending about 30 seconds after FCe. No temp drop at end of roast, but was challenging to keep heat flowing smoothly into beans. Overall roasts were about 10% longer than for most Ethiopian beans I roast. I ended with a city/medium roast. Tasting notes: I get under-ripe cherries, blueberry, earth, vanilla, hints of chocolate, syrupy sweetness balanced against acidity.
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Bub's Daddy
March 23, 2021
Roasting it dark/oily. I think these two beans are a good match, so this blend is a natural. Don't think you could be let down by this one. Strong body, earthy, smooth.
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Paul
November 15, 2020
Okay maybe I should go 5 stars but then because this is me roasting I don't always get the subtitle flavor profile flavor notes.
I am pushing this up to second crack but not into second crack. My inital brew which is drip after 3 days rest showed some lemon flavor and fruit undertones. Brewing it the whole house woke and commented how they loved the smell which isn't always the case.
Next time i'll take the second part and push into second crack and see how it does as espresso my other brew method.
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Doug
February 25, 2020
A nice blend, though not without some issues. I've roasted 4 batches in my Original Poppery, stopping each just before the first snaps of second crack. The first was 175gr and I picked out 53 quakers. I tried to slow the second roast way down, hoping it would even things out a bit, without success. That's an awful lot of defects for a premium coffee. It would seem that the prep on one or more of the beans used in the blend wasn't very good.
The Yemeni component of the blend thoroughly overpowers the Ethiopian component. I get the wild/spicy/earthy/bittersweet chocolate notes I associate with a nice Yemeni, but not nearly as much of the sweetness/fruitiness as I typically get from a good dry-processed Ethiopian.
All that said, after 1.5 to 3 days of rest, pour-over brewing yields a very nice, very typical Yemeni in the cup, and Aeropress shots are smooth, chocolaty, and delicious. I'll be revisiting this one in the future.
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