• Beans: “Snow Day Blend” from Zeke’s Coffee (Baltimore, MD)
  • Source: Bali Blue Krishna (Indonesia) / Tanzania Peaberry
  • Roast level: medium (4/8)
  • Roast date: 2/19/24
  • Purchase date: 2/27/24
• V60:
  • 20g coffee / 300g water (1:15)
  • JX: 29 (87 clicks)
  • Water at 95°C
  • Recipe: Single Cup V60 Pourover

Similar story to pretty much everything I’ve been brewing with my plastic size 2 V60 lately: I started too fine, and am slowly adjusting coarser in an attempt to make the coffee not taste bitter. This was starting to taste pretty good at 28 today, but could maybe go a couple more clicks. I think that my rule of thumb for light to medium roasts is going to be to wait until 10 days to 2 weeks past roast date, and then start with a grind setting of 28 to 30.

3/11: I brewed my first pourover with these in 9 days, using grind setting 29, and it was quite good. I’ll keep this setting for the next few cups, and see how it goes.

3/14: Used these up today. This has been one of my favorite blends from Zeke’s. Once I got the grind setting dialed in at 29, every cup was very consistently good. I also brewed several cups with the AeroPress while out of town, and those cups were good too (if not quite as good as the pourovers) in spite of inconsistent water temperatures and bean/water ratios.