• Beans: Guatemala – Finca El Valle
  • Roaster: Brewing Good Coffee Company (Savage, MD)
  • Origin: Guatemala (Antigua)
  • Roast level: Light
  • Roast date: 9/2/2025
  • Purchase date: 9/12/2025 at BGCC in Savage Mill
    First cup: 9/24/2025; Last cup: 10/6/2025
  • Process: washed; Varietals: Red Bourbon, Typica, Yellow Bourbon; Altitude: 1500 MASL
  • Tasting notes: Nectarine, dark chocolate, cherry
• V60 or Switch with Ode:
  • 20g coffee / 300g water (1:15)
  • Ode: 2
  • Water at 100°C
  • Recipe: Single Cup V60 Pourover with Switch or size 2 cone, 60g bloom water and 60g pulses – finishes 02:50-03:00 — Switch: keep drain closed for bloom and then open
• AeroPress with JX:
  • 17g coffee / 250g water (1:14 to 1:15)
  • JX: 16
  • Water at 100°C
  • Travel AeroPress Recipe

This coffee tastes almost exactly as I expected it would. It is quite fruity/acidic with light to medium body. The Switch cup had maybe a tiny bit more “bottom end” (for lack of a better description — on second tasting, maybe I’d call it chocolate undertone), but the difference was fairly subtle. After two years of making pourovers, I think I’m finally getting a little better at choosing initial settings (grind size in particular) for brewing different types of beans.

10/1: My usual AeroPress recipe (link above) yielded a cup that was a little bit roastier and less fruit-forward than the Switch cup. I like it either way. I wonder if a longer steep in the Switch with the drain closed would taste similar to the AeroPress cup.