- Beans: Brazil (Cerrado) from Foxtail Coffee Co. (Winter Park, FL)
- Roast level: Medium
- Roast date: 10/4/2024
- Purchase date: 10/21/2024 at Foxtail Coffee in Mount Dora, FL
- Tasting notes: Almond, milk chocolate, toffee
- V60:
- 19 to 19.2g coffee / 300g water (1/15.6 to 1/15.8)
- Ode: 4
- Water at 95°C
- Recipe: Single Cup V60 Pourover with 40g bloom water – typically finishes at between 02:45 and 03:00
I bought these beans while we were in Florida visiting friends who had just moved down there. The above settings produced a nicely flavored cup. 19.4 grams was a little too strong-tasting, so I think 1:16 may be the sweet spot.
I seem to get more consistent brews with the Ode than I do with my hand grinder. It’s not that I can’t brew good coffee with the hand grinder, but it does seem like I have to play around with the brew parameters a lot more to get things dialed in. On the other hand, with the Ode, I’m finding that I’ll often go through an entire bag of beans without tweaking my starting settings at all. In light of this, I may rethink how I do these blog posts at some point. I want to continue to track how I’m brewing various beans (mainly to have something to refer back to if I buy them again) but I don’t want to fill this space up with repetitive posts. Maybe I could start creating pages instead, or take them out of WordPress entirely and move everything into a spreadsheet. I will have to think on this a little bit.