Ifigure I'll try a number of different changes, recording those changesand the resulting brew. Today, the only change I'll make from my usualis that I will pull the filter when the resulting brew looks watery,light, or unappealing - similar to ending a shot of espresso onceblonding appears. I anticipate this will occur at or around 3:45 of thebrew time.
Other parameters:
Coffee: New Harvest's El Salvador Las Ranas
Throw: 55g to 750 ml, admittedly a slight updose from 60g/L, and I don't know what the actual final volume will be.
Grind: "31" on my trusty Maestro
Pour:50ml prewet, @:30 spiral pour to 200ml, stir, @ 1:00 spiral pour to350ml, stir, @ 2:00 spiral pour to 500ml, stir, @ 3:00 spiral pour to750, stir. Pull when resulting brew seems unpleasant.
Temp: I domy best to keep the water in the boiling vessel over 200F, thoughwithout a Fluke and some kind of wire probe, I have no way toaccurately measure the temperature of the slurry. I do the multiplesmall pour method specifically to keep the temp in the brewing vesselas high as I can, though I can't verify that this is the case.
RESULTS:Pulled the filter @ 3:50, yielding a final brew volume of 576ml, thusthe final brew ratio was 55g/576ml, or 95g/L - an updose by anyone'sstandard, and quite frankly borderline wasteful. In any case, my onlymeans of measurement is the ol' human tongue (imprecise at best!), anduntil I can get my hands on an ExtractMojo, that will have to do;luckily, most of our customers are similarly equipped!
Thetasting notes on the bag (of New Harvest Las Ranas) are honey,tangerine and clove. The front of the cup has a very pleasing acidity,with more body than I would have expected from a Chemex brew (probablyattributable to the massive updose from pulling the filter early). Ifind the citrus mostly in that first burst, slowly fading into a lighthoney peak - at this dose, the body even FEELS like honey, which ispretty awesome, with the whole experience winding down into quietherbal finishing notes. Again, probably due to the updose, the tastingexperience is quite a bit longer than I would have expected.
CONCLUSION: This cup is a very nice cup. I would be very pleased to beserved this in a cafe, and flabbergasted to get it at a restaurant. Ithink that my next brew I will reduce the dosage slightly, and perhapstighten the grind, in order to reduce the sheer amount of coffee I'musing (95g/L, sheesh!).
(simultaneously posted on cedetocup.blogspot.com)
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