I've recently bought a second hand Gene Cafe and it's bought up my roasting game a fair bit.
A couple of roasts ago I walked into the roasting room the day after a roast and it smelled like a fruit cake in there.
Last roast didn't smell so nice in the room, but now when I grind the beans they are releasing a wonderful caramel smell. I can almost taste it, rich, sweet, like biscuits in the oven.
When I pull a shot on my Pavoni lever (that I am still learning how to use, should only be a few more years), or brew in the AeroPress the promise that the grinding smell made, is not fulfilled by the taste in the cup.
It tastes nice but not at all like the caramel smell that was released during grinding. It tastes like coffee, not the biscuits!
I've known a lot of teas like that too. You open the bag and they smell like fruits, vanilla, cocoa whatever. But when brewed they don't reflect that smell.
So what I want to ask is this ... is there a way to make the coffee taste like the smell that it produces when grinding? Is it an impossible dream because the heat of the water simply destroys the complex taste molecules? Or is it something that's easy as pie and most other people can do but because I'm doing something wrong I'm not getting it?
As you can imagine, I would really appreciate any help! thank you.
A couple of roasts ago I walked into the roasting room the day after a roast and it smelled like a fruit cake in there.
Last roast didn't smell so nice in the room, but now when I grind the beans they are releasing a wonderful caramel smell. I can almost taste it, rich, sweet, like biscuits in the oven.
When I pull a shot on my Pavoni lever (that I am still learning how to use, should only be a few more years), or brew in the AeroPress the promise that the grinding smell made, is not fulfilled by the taste in the cup.
It tastes nice but not at all like the caramel smell that was released during grinding. It tastes like coffee, not the biscuits!
I've known a lot of teas like that too. You open the bag and they smell like fruits, vanilla, cocoa whatever. But when brewed they don't reflect that smell.
So what I want to ask is this ... is there a way to make the coffee taste like the smell that it produces when grinding? Is it an impossible dream because the heat of the water simply destroys the complex taste molecules? Or is it something that's easy as pie and most other people can do but because I'm doing something wrong I'm not getting it?
As you can imagine, I would really appreciate any help! thank you.

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