- Beans: “Organic Breakfast Coffee” light roast (Ethiopia)
- Roaster: Rise Up Coffee Roasters (Easton, MD)
- Bag #1 roast date: 10/12/2023
- Bag #2 roast date: 5/14/2024; purchase date: 5/28/2024
- 20g coffee / 300g water (1:15)
- JX: 18-21 (54-63 total clicks)
- Recipe: A Better 1 Cup V60 Technique (see below)
- Preheat V60, pre-moisten filter, add coffee, and tare scale
- Make small indentation in center of coffee grounds
- 0:00: Pour 60g of water to bloom, then return kettle to base
- 0:10 – 0:15: Gently Swirl
- 0:45 – 1:00: Pour up to 120g total (40% total weight)
- Hold kettle for the remainder of the brewing process
- 1:10 – 1:20: Pour up to 180g total (60% total weight)
- 1:30 – 1:40: Pour up to 240g total (80% total weight)
- 1:50 – 2:00: Pour up to 300g total (100% total weight)
- 2:00 – 2:05: Gently swirl
- Drawdown finished around 3:00
New 12oz bag today. I picked these up in Ocean City, but my local grocery store also sells beans from Rise Up. Their main location is right off US 50 in Easton, so that might be the place to go to get the best selection and freshest beans.
This is the same recipe I had been using with my last bag of lighter roast beans from Zeke’s, and it also worked well with these. I brewed a larger cup this morning, but probably will stick with 250g water and 16g to 17g coffee for most of my cups. These beans produce more fines than the Zeke’s beans did, and as a result, the draw-down took longer. I swirled after the initial 60g dose, which I had not been doing with the Zeke’s. I’m curious if swirling vs not swirling makes any noticeable difference.
I bought another 12oz bag of Rise Up beans at the same time, which I’ll try tomorrow. It is also a light roast, so I am hoping I can use the same recipe for both bags.
11/18: Getting down to the end of these, and in case I buy them again, just noting that I have been brewing my more recent cups with 250g water/16g coffee (1:15.6) and grind setting 21. I had been noticing a slight tinge of bitterness occasionally at setting 20, which is not present at setting 21.
6/3/24: I have been brewing my second bag of these at grind setting 18 and 21g/300g, and the cups have been pretty good, with a mild flavor and a touch of acidity — pretty much what I would expect from a “breakfast” coffee.