by zix » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:28 pm
Yeh, I like to change continents too. And I like to feel the bean! One of my roasting all time high-lights was that Liberica I got from sweetmarias. Ahhh... to heeeat, to smell, to crack you! To cool, to sift, to griiind you! (sorry, that was probably much too Swedish a reference for anyone here, you'll have to look up Björn Skifs AND NOT Hooked on a feeling)
Anyway... half of the fun is to try a different bean.
One of my best espressos ever was with an extremely fresh Old Java single, if you believe me... I just had to see if it was possible to get a good cup out of it. And it was!
We had a couple visiting that night, I managed to hit the sweet spot after a few tries... The guy was flying high on that Java, saying it was the best cup he'd ever had, anywhere. Don't know what it was with that particular batch, but it was... very unexpectedly a great single coffee - for the first two days. Then it faded, and I blended it with Colombians or something like that.
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