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Lol, has anyone tried this new Lavazza Barista? I’d seen it appear in Sainsbury’s but my pal bought a sackful in Costco and gave me a jar.
Seemed to make an acceptable espresso as long as you like dark roast, with a noticeably very dense crema. Fine in a milk drink. Unpleasantly high in caffeine, but I’ve cut my coffee right back recently and put it down to that.
I did a pourover with it the other morning and it foamed up like it had washing up liquid in it. On the ‘bloom’ it seems to out-gas a huge amount, way more than I’ve seen any other coffee do. In the Aeropress I had to knock the foam down and top it back up, and even then it was all bubbly on top. I think it must be treated or something to make it do that, but something isn’t right there. I think that explains the very dense crema I got on the espresso. It made dreadful pourover.
I also noticed when I took it out the fridge the beans were all stuck together. What have they done to this stuff?