The Mexican Chiapas Altura I had yesterday was enjoyable. I think my next brew of it will be a blend with some of the Indonesian Flores Ngura -- probably what I'll break the press in with 
Kawfee beanz, DIY and assorted Shenaniganery :)
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Was all excited to get the Cubis tank.... NO LEAKING!!!! I haven't gotten through a half a tank in the thing yet without burning the coil. It also slurps and floods on me all the time so it will get passed on to someone else, the tank I love flavorwise is the Target tank but it floods and leaks on me all the time. I choo choo puff, pretty much puff a second or 2 and then off same amount only to repeat process and will go maybe a minute before I truly come up for air or to let the tank cool down and most tanks just can't handle that without burning or flooding... I tend to stick to my RSST and v2MK2 Genesis tanks for that reason. I am using an Atlantis tank that belongs to my son right now and so far so good as far as no leak or burn but only 2 ml and bottom fill so rather a pain on the XVOStick but flavor isn't bad. Everyone raves over this tank or that and I finally bite and when it arrives, just doesn't work out at all for me
I loved the Target for flavor, picked up another pack of the ccell heads, but did run into some leaking. With the tfv4 mini I get a couple days with no leaks, then a little, but can just redo the wick and I'm good to go again. (the leaking is minor, I can easily wait until end of the day to take it apart and re-wick)
I needed "Cake Batter" vodka for a drink recipe a few weeks ago. Added a few drops of CAP Cake Batter to some plain vodka, and voila! Nebber know the difference....
I don't need no stinkin' Grey Goose
(well, mostly because I'm a cheapskate and cringe at the thought of spending that much on al-kee-hol. Sippin' straight up, I'd consider; mixin' - nah, I am quite fine with "lesser-expensive" spirits.....
I needed "Cake Batter" vodka for a drink recipe a few weeks ago. Added a few drops of CAP Cake Batter to some plain vodka, and voila! Nebber know the difference....
I don't need no stinkin' Grey Goose
Right there with ya, Darlin'... unless it's Bourbon. Then I gots ta have da good stuffs. My wife bought me a 5 liter oak barrel so that I can age my own. Surface area makes it age a LOT faster than the bigger barrels that distillers use, so I can replicate an 8-12 year old bourbon in months instead of years. Even better, I can just cut down Everclear and then age and flavor it... better than most things you could buy off the shelf! Your Cake Batter Vodka gives me ideas to play around with flavoring up some rum though... TFA is gonna LUV me!
O.k., @markfm, or @LouisLeBeau, or @dcfluegel....
Kawfee-blending kweshun.... So, when you're listing all the beanies that are going into a blend, do you roast them separately and grind separately; roast separately and grind together; or roast together and grind together?
I don't see any significant barista activity in my future, but I was kinda curious as to how you would do that....
Kawfee-blending kweshun.... So, when you're listing all the beanies that are going into a blend, do you roast them separately and grind separately; roast separately and grind together; or roast together and grind together?
I don't see any significant barista activity in my future, but I was kinda curious as to how you would do that....
hiya! when i have blended, i tend to roast separately then blend roasted beans and grind - roasting bean types separately allows for a more uniform, consistent roast - as bean size, shape, water content can vary a good bit
Dammit, now I'm gonna have to go and break out my Type O Negative library! Thanks for the reminder, Ding... I needed a musical changup!
Happy Friday to you and the Repairbot as well, DC! I got a little bit more here, then I'm out for the weekend, so...
HAPPY WEEKEND, EVERYBODY!
woot! happy weekend, indeed - i have some honeydo stuff this weekend, but nothing too major... really need some non-adulting time - my cranium is craniain't
I thought that might be the case - I can only imagine that one bean variety might take x minutes/hours to roast to *ITS* perfection point, but another variety needs y minutes/hours to be right..... Grinding together makes for more uniform blend, no?
Heh, I stopped formally adulting about 3 hours ago.... I'm just stuck in my dungeon for at least another 30 min or so.....
Yeah, I don't get a whole lot of non-adulting time either... but I'm hoping to sneak in a bit of video gaming this weekend. Other than that, I predict quite a bit of weekend adulting...
I needed "Cake Batter" vodka for a drink recipe a few weeks ago. Added a few drops of CAP Cake Batter to some plain vodka, and voila! Nebber know the difference....
I don't need no stinkin' Grey Goose
Never thought about using it to flavor drinks like that, although I can't have vodka....hmmm...project for this weekend? Maybe play with the everclear I have hidden in the cupboard
Roast separate, grind together.
The different beans have different temperature/fan speed profiles used to get to the desired roast for a given batch of a given bean. You may also, for instance, want to blend a lighter (city) roast of bean A with a darker (vienna or french) roast of bean B.
Once roasted, the beans have different "steeping" times. Some are ready to use in a day, others take several days.
Grind is done with the beans combined, tossed into the grinder hopper. For a given brew method (drip, espresso, french press) you want the ground coffee, all of it, to be at the appropriate size -- coarse, medium, fine.
In theory you want to brew immediately after grinding. In practice, I'll put some extra ground coffee into a small mason jar (the kind with the rubber gasket) to take into work and use during the day.
I'm just going to go ahead, and go to bed now! Because my day is not going to get any better than that.Oooooooooohhhhh, H-A-W-T
Nicely done Mssr. LLBSo glad there weren't any incidental blood-lettings
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