GoodShave's Coffee Journal

Great post, thank again for sharing it all. I will look over the sites with interest.

Street Level is the one that I'm mixing. I will continue experimenting with all of the roasts.

Appreciate you and your comments, my friend!

I was able to get a good look at the links you provided in post #110. I really was impressed with them, especially the astrophysicist's Coffee Ad Astra! I feel very confident now that I can get a good brew and my hope is that some of the beans I am struggling with at the moment will be more accessible to me flavorwise with the Aeropress recipes found in all those links. Thanks again!

And using that modified Hoffmann V60 recipe, I am getting very good cups with the Counter Culture Big Trouble roast. It's a medium roast with a flavor profile of nutty, caramel, and chocolate. While I may not be able to distinguish all those, I do know that it tastes like good coffee to me!

I was able to get a good look at the links you provided in post #110. I really was impressed with them, especially the astrophysicist's Coffee Ad Astra! I feel very confident now that I can get a good brew and my hope is that some of the beans I am struggling with at the moment will be more accessible to me flavorwise with the Aeropress recipes found in all those links. Thanks again!

And using that modified Hoffmann V60 recipe, I am getting very good cups with the Counter Culture Big Trouble roast. It's a medium roast with a flavor profile of nutty, caramel, and chocolate. While I may not be able to distinguish all those, I do know that it tastes like good coffee to me!

I am glad you are getting good cups! 

You are very welcome!

That astrophysicist (Jonathan Gagné) wrote an entire book on the physics of filter coffee:
https://www.scottrao.com/products/physic...than-gagne

A few friends just recently got me into specialty coffee and I've been greatly enjoying it. 
Fortunately, we have a very good roaster in our city and I'm able to acquire very good freshly roasted beans. 
I've been getting superb results with the Hario Switch and having great results with this recipe, below.
I would have never had thought I would be drinking coffee after having been a tea drinker exclusively for the past 35 years. 
It's always nice to find a new thing arise in your life. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvSzfIx...Chronicler

celestino, that is great to hear! Hopefully you read the fine print regarding the numerous rabbit holes 

I will be watching the video soon. The Switch has been on the fringe of my radar. I enjoy French Press coffee, but am not a fan of the clean up. The Switch looks like it may produce the full immersion of a press without the joy of digging the grounds out of the bottom of the carafe! 

And to have a good roaster right in town, that is so cool. You can really go down the tunnel now!

I tried the modified Hoffmann style brew in a fine, double mesh one piece pour over cone. It did not work out well at all. I was looking for a French press kind of mouth feel, but all that I noted was sour after taste. Dumped it and did the exact same recipe with the Hario V60 and had a very pleasant cup.

A few friends just recently got me into specialty coffee and I've been greatly enjoying it. 
Fortunately, we have a very good roaster in our city and I'm able to acquire very good freshly roasted beans. 
I've been getting superb results with the Hario Switch and having great results with this recipe, below.
I would have never had thought I would be drinking coffee after having been a tea drinker exclusively for the past 35 years. 
It's always nice to find a new thing arise in your life. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvSzfIx...Chronicler

Welcome aboard the specialty coffee train!

Thanks for posting that video. I really liked that one.

Which Hario Switch did you use? V60-02 glass/ceramic, V60-03 glass or the Hario Mugen cone on the Hario Switch base?

I am always on the lookout for a good roaster. Would you mind sharing the roaster you liked?

celestino, that is great to hear! Hopefully you read the fine print regarding the numerous rabbit holes 

I will be watching the video soon. The Switch has been on the fringe of my radar. I enjoy French Press coffee, but am not a fan of the clean up. The Switch looks like it may produce the full immersion of a press without the joy of digging the grounds out of the bottom of the carafe! 

And to have a good roaster right in town, that is so cool. You can really go down the tunnel now!

Eric,

The Switch definitely will do an all immersion brew, but the filter paper is going to remove most of the oils from the coffee, so it will not have the same taste as a French Press (it will be a cleaner cup). It is still good though. You can also use it as a V60 as well. The regular glass version uses V60-02 filters but is slightly smaller than a regular V60-02. If you need a full V60-02, you can get a glass or stainless steel V60-02 and swap out the cone. I find the interesting part is that you can do hybrid recipes where you do immersion for one part of the brew and peculation for another part of the same brew. If you  like tweaking with brew settings, that dripper will keep you busy for a while.

One of my favorite parts of using the Hario Switch is that when you use it as a V60 (with the default cone, or swap the cone out for a glass V60 of any size or a stainless steel V60-02), you can close the switch and fill with hot water and let it sit to preheat the cone while you grind your beans and do other prep. That saves hot water that way. For the Hario Mugen cone, you really don't need to preheat the cone since it is a type of plastic.

There are some interesting low bypass recipes you can do when you swap out the Hario Mugen cone and put it on the Hario Switch base.

I think that with the Bean & Bean Coffee Roasters (Little Neck, NY) - Kenya Peaberry beans, flat bottom brewers (at least with the recipes and brewers I have tried so far) seem to make brews closest to my preferences. So far I have enjoyed the Stagg XF, the Varia FLO and April 2.0 plastic drippers with these beans.

Here was a good setting from Sunday's brew:
Varia FLO dripper with a Kalita 185 filter and the Medium 1 screen using the Alternative Brewing 4:6 recipe with the target of balanced acidity and sweetness, medium body, with 2nd bloom.

Today, I started exploring the plastic April 2.0 dripper with these beans:
April 2.0 plastic brewer with a Kalita 155 filter using the James Perry Coffee - Standard 3 Pour recipe. I think I needed to grind a little finer to see about adding more body to the brew but it was a decent cup using the starting values I chose.

A few friends just recently got me into specialty coffee and I've been greatly enjoying it. 
Fortunately, we have a very good roaster in our city and I'm able to acquire very good freshly roasted beans. 
I've been getting superb results with the Hario Switch and having great results with this recipe, below.
I would have never had thought I would be drinking coffee after having been a tea drinker exclusively for the past 35 years. 
It's always nice to find a new thing arise in your life. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvSzfIx...Chronicler

Welcome aboard the specialty coffee train!

Thanks for posting that video. I really liked that one.

Which Hario Switch did you use? V60-02 glass/ceramic, V60-03 glass or the Hario Mugen cone on the Hario Switch base?

I am always on the lookout for a good roaster. Would you mind sharing the roaster you liked?

I have the V60-02 glass

Rogue Wave Coffee in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 
They're really quite knowledgeable, but might be too expensive to order from them, if you're in the US. Not sure though.