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Brewing Good Guatemala F.E.V.

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  • 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:

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.

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