Weve settled into a comfortable routine consuming 2 x 200gm roasts per week in my barbecue rotisserie roaster.
The drawback is being stuck on single origins and only wondering what a blend may taste like.
But with 200 gms being the minimum viable roast for critical mass, the procedure makes it impossible to roast, say, 3 or 4 varieties and THEN blend them--theyd go stale by the time all are consumed.
So, against my better judgement, I decided to blend first, and then roast them all together.
Ive had as much as 7 different bean types stirring away in that rotisserie. That works out to a shade under 30 grms of each variety to comprise a 200 gram batch.
The result? -- Very pleasing. May I say first up the roasts are extraordinarily even. Impossible to pick out one bean from another by the colour--all are evenly hued.
Grind? --No special consideration for the different beans, just grind as per usual and it all comes out in the wash.
Taste?--Again, very pleasing. And always interesting to see how all the flavours come together.
Crema?--Always lots of that, specially given no beans are more than 4 days old.
The drawback is being stuck on single origins and only wondering what a blend may taste like.
But with 200 gms being the minimum viable roast for critical mass, the procedure makes it impossible to roast, say, 3 or 4 varieties and THEN blend them--theyd go stale by the time all are consumed.
So, against my better judgement, I decided to blend first, and then roast them all together.
Ive had as much as 7 different bean types stirring away in that rotisserie. That works out to a shade under 30 grms of each variety to comprise a 200 gram batch.
The result? -- Very pleasing. May I say first up the roasts are extraordinarily even. Impossible to pick out one bean from another by the colour--all are evenly hued.
Grind? --No special consideration for the different beans, just grind as per usual and it all comes out in the wash.
Taste?--Again, very pleasing. And always interesting to see how all the flavours come together.
Crema?--Always lots of that, specially given no beans are more than 4 days old.

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