Monthly Grind Sizes

 EXTRA FINE/FINE

I have gone too course from Medium on the initial cups on this production roast. Si to get the extraction value up on espresso I have come in towards the top end of Extra Fine.

I am looking for new Burrs so am a little cautious they are worn. The Rocket is running in the green on 8.5 bars.

 FINE

Started this on espresso at Medium and came in a few notches towards fine sitting in the first notch of fine. 

An extra taste note for this was pineapple as Nik Messaged me yesterday - I think its at the back after a sip of espresso - I try not to drink all of it when testing.

 FINE (MIDDDLE)

Starting on Medium where we always start and extraction low to moving two notches down to top of fine and the extraction came up.

The third shot on this production roast was mid range fine and gave some chocolate notes.

FINE 

This Pea berry was running fast at medium, but came in on top end fine with a predominant Gooseberry tartness. On the cupping table there was a little more black current than Goosberry.

FINE/MEDIUM

This was was a change from All Things Bloom as they requested to split our Tanzania order so they did not let other customers down as we had the sample anyway this was not a problem.

I had to move this one around a little on the grinder, the first shot was under extracted so started medium we went from Medium to top end of fine, early medium.

COARSE

We found this coffee worked best in the middle of the Coarse grind size range.  For us, the tasting notes for this were 'Toffee Apple'.

COARSE

This coffee needed a slightly finer grind than the Atman's but still sat in the Coarse grind size range.  Our tasting notes were 'Sweet Red Apple'.

EXTRA COARSE

This coffee needed the coarsest grind of the four this month just tipping into the Extra Coarse grind size range. This is fairly normal when roasting a Kenyan coffee for both Filter and Espresso... as it can get a little bit acidic if you go too light on the roast.  Our taste notes were 'Blueberry'. 

EXTRA FINE

Django typical roasts a little on the light side compared to some roasters as they like to highlight the acidity, and this coffee is no exception.  For us, it worked best in the Extra Fine grind size range, and on Espresso we even experimented with a Lungo shot to really let it sing (18g in to 45g out).  Our tasting notes were 'Tropical Fruit'.

MEDIUM

This coffee is super consistent and well-behaved - the sign of a great roaster.  We found it worked best on at the coarser end of Medium.

COARSE

Again a well-behaved coffee that we found worked best a little coarser than the Machina - this one at the finer end of Coarse.

MEDIUM

This coffee needed a slightly finer grind than the Machina Uganda and worked nicely in the middle of the Medium grind range.

FINE

This coffee needed the finest grind size of the four coffees this month.  We found it worked best in the Fine grind range

EXTRA FINE - Espresso 

EXTRA FINE - Filter 

Nice bag, designed especially for us. That is Fred on the bag, the Echelon roastery dog.

Nice waft from the bag when opened. First go at an espresso poured fast in a medium grind, moved to finer grind.

Profiled first time on Filter at an Extra Fine grind, behaved as expected taking hints from the espresso profiling.

EXRA FINE - Espresso 

EXTRA FINE - Filter 

Nice bag, great coffee from Ben. First shot was a longer pour for 26 at a medium grind, quite far out for extraction, so we pulled into a finer grind.

Touch finer than Echelon. Tasty. Light.

On filter, again profiled first time at Extra Fine - very similar to Echelon profile.

Nice roast, branding good. running courser than Keen - good bodied 'spro.