BeanBay Green Bean Release - April 2016

[Andy]

This is a good reminder for me to pick up a Brazen. Too much water temperature variation from my cheap kettle! The difference in tastes in the Ardi is ludicrous: can be berries and blueberries to a slightly grassy berry brightness from the same batch.

EXACTLY. You really notice temperature effect on lighter, fruitier roasts and it's nearly impossible to manually pour anything with repeatability (regardless of how hard you intently stare at the water coming out of the neck of an Egyptian kettle)

I wasn't really trying to plug the Brazen but yeah, once you have that fine level of control it's really hard to go back. We have been smashing-out stunning long blacks which ooze body and fruit. Make the same coffee as an Americano on the espresso machine and it's pale in comparison. Paula drinks the Brazen brews with a splash of milk (like you would make instant coffee) and much prefers that to stodgy buckets of milk.

[sprezzatura]

... not that I need a reminder. Now, what do I gotta sell on Gumtree...

[sprezzatura]

This is a good reminder for me to pick up a Brazen. Too much water temperature variation from my cheap kettle! The difference in tastes in the Ardi is ludicrous: can be berries and blueberries to a slightly grassy berry brightness from the same batch.

[Andy]

.....a coffee that costs nearly 20 times as much as many fantastic coffees from regions all over the world cannot be 20 times better.

Ahhh... this is where you are wrong. Your statement and math would be true for nearly any other seriously expensive coffee and certainly true for anything that came out of a critters backside but not true for this one.

This is the most amazing coffee I've had the pleasure to roast and drink. YES it was a nervous roast of a couple of kilos and YES you are very careful with how you roast and use it but ahhhhhh.... the aroma off the grinder fills the room with truly intoxicating florals and fruits and unlike any other bean I've ever used/seen/tasted.

A commercial roaster came into the Snobbery and bought 6 kilos for his own consumption after smelling the grind.

I ran this coffee in two Brazen brewers side-by-side at MICE. One brewed at 89C and one at 92C so people could smell and taste the difference in accurate brewing. There were some seriously wide eyes and open mouths over the 3 days. Mostly industry people find it hard to have one of those gobsmacking moments after years in coffee but this coffee certainly delivered in spades.

I must say, as an espresso it was very good but in the Brazen it's stunning.

The other observation was that it got better and better for a long period, maybe 3 weeks until it peaked which is a first for me too.

Should you buy it for the experience? Well, that's up to you. Once you try it you can see why it is a magnet to awards.

[Gavisconi007]

Yeah.......would be sleeping in the shed that night for sure.

[stephen28]

Any chance Andy could bring back the sampler pack and include 500 grams of this in it? Be good to practise on. Shouldn't cost much.......

[greenman]

Imagine the nighmares one would have if you botched the roast 😠😠😠😠😠😠

[Gavisconi007]

So it would be $6.60/0.84= $7.86. Or $6.60 for Nino owners.......

[Yelta]

Should we also be making an adjustment for grind retention and resultant wastage?

If that's what floats your boat.

PS !6% is significant.

[Gavisconi007]

Spot on Flynn, see my post, #6, did the arithmetic and like you got .33 cents a gram = $6.60 for 20 grams.

Should we also be making an adjustment for grind retention and resultant wastage?

[artman]

Oops. You're correct , I didn't take into account the moisture loss.

Would be good to go in with a few people to make the cost more palatable (pardon the pun)

Cheers

[Yelta]

Good point but don't forget to allow for 15% weight loss when roasting. That pushes it up to about $6.60 per double.

Spot on Flynn, see my post, #6, did the arithmetic and like you got .33 cents a gram = $6.60 for 20 grams.

[flynnaus]

Its only $5.60 per 20 gram double shot. Sounds like a bargain if you look at it like that. I have paid that much for "coffee" at a cafe and it was rubbish.

Cheers

Good point but don't forget to allow for 15% weight loss when roasting. That pushes it up to about $6.60 per double.

[Yelta]

Its got a head like a cow moose.

[kyeba]

The Panama would be worth it just for the cool drawing of a dog on the packet

Dog/Mule same thing :P