- Beans: Clumsy Girl
- Roaster: Gracefully Coffee Roasters (Baltimore, MD)
- Roast level: Medium
- Origin: Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Costa RIca
- Roast date: 02/06/2025
- Purchase date: 02/21/2025 at Gracefully Curbside Cafe (2601 N Rolling Rd Ste 104, Windsor Mill, MD)
- V60:
- 20g coffee / 300g water (1:15)
- Ode: 4
- Water at 95°C
- Recipe: A Better 1 Cup V60 Technique
This was my first time visiting this small local roaster. I first had their coffee at Evergrain Bread Co. in Chestertown, and enjoyed it. I think it was this one, but there’s a small chance it was Jamberry, one of their other popular roasts. They don’t classify this in terms of “light, medium, or dark roast”, but visually, the beans look like what I would call a medium roast. This is a really good everyday kind of coffee- not overly complex, but with a lot of interesting character. There is a noticeable fruity twang to go along with a decent amount of body. Grind setting 4 worked well, for the most part. Finer than that brought out a touch of bitterness. My cups were pretty consistent up until the end of the bag, for some reason. My third-to-last cup was a little bit subpar, with a little less body to balance out the acidity. I brewed the penultimate cup with more water (about 425g), still at 1:15, and it was really excellent- maybe the best of all of them, actually. The final cup, though (back to 300g/1:15), really fell flat. It had a weak, dishwatery kind of taste. I suspect that I messed something up. It had been about 48 hours since I last used the grinder, so maybe there were enough stale grounds in there to foul things up? I’m not sure, but it’s not going to stop me from buying this again at some point. I’ll probably alternate between Gracefully and Brewing Good in Savage for a while, at least until I’ve tried several roasts from each.