• Beans: Colombian Mountain Water Process Decaf
  • Roaster: Gracefully Coffee Roasters (Baltimore, MD)
  • Roast level: Medium
  • Origin: Colombia
  • Roast date: 02/12/2025
  • Purchase date: 02/21/2025 at Gracefully Curbside Cafe (2601 N Rolling Rd Ste 104, Windsor Mill, MD)
  • Tasting notes: milk chocolate, caramel, citrus
• V60:
  • 20g coffee / 300g water (1:15)
  • Ode: 5
  • Water at 90°C
  • Recipe: Single Cup V60 Pourover (60g pulses) — finishes around 03:30 to 03:40 — use size 2 cone

This is another pretty good decaf. It’s definitely on par with the offerings from Brewing Good and Rise Up, and I’ll likely cycle through these (depending on availability/freshness; Rise Up can be hit-or-miss around here) until another local competitor comes along. The grounds draw down fairly slowly, though not as slowly as the Brewing Good decaf. I brewed most of the single cups in a size 1 V60, and double cups in the size 2. We’ve taken a long time to go through this bag, and as of this writing, it’s over 6 weeks past roast date and starting to degrade a little bit. I brewed most of the early cups at grind 4 and water at 95°C, but more recently, I noticed some slight bitterness, so I backed off to 4+1/92.

5/18/26: We’re on our third (or possibly fourth) bag now. The latest bag was roasted around 5/1/26. I don’t drink much of this myself, but I do taste each cup. The cups I’ve brewed at 95° have had an unpleasant burnt flavor, but the cup I brewed today at 90°/grind 5 was nice and smooth. I’ve updated the recipe (above) so I will remember to use this as a starting point next time. It still takes upwards of 3:30 to finish brewing, but that seems to be a common thread with decafs. For that reason, I’m now brewing single cups with a size 2 V60, because a 300g pour was almost filling up the size 1 cone, making it a pain to swirl at the end.