• Beans: “Costa Rica (Terrazu)” from Amity Coffee Roasters (Greenwood, DE)
  • Roast level: Medium (wet process)
  • Origin: Costa Rica
  • Tasting notes from bag: clean sweetness / floral
  • Roast date: 6/11/2024
  • Purchase date: 6/16/2024 at T S Smith & Sons in Bridgeville, DE
• AeroPress:
  • 20-21g coffee / 250g water
  • JX: 18 (54 clicks)
  • Hot water from Cuisinart machine (pretty hot but not boiling)
  • Prismo with metal and paper filters
  • Pour to 250g and stir 6-7x; steep until 2:45; stir 6-7x; press slowly, finishing up somewhere around 4:15

I have brewed this recipe 5 or 6 times now at our beach house, and the cups have been pretty consistently good. I’ll almost certainly be bringing some home, so I’ll try it in the V60 next week and see how that compares.

6/28: At home, I’ve been using the same recipe with my gooseneck kettle and 95°C water. The past few cups have been very slightly bitter. I tried dropping the temperature to 90°, but it still was not quite as good as last week’s cups. I only had about 30g of beans left, so today, I brewed all of them with the V60 (size 2) and 450g of water at 95°, and I also backed the grind off 6 clicks to setting 20. The result was a very good, smooth cup. Seems that making the grind slightly coarser is the ticket with these beans as they start to age. They were only 17 days past roast date when I used them up.