Coffee Appreciation

Yes no problem. Best to arrange via email rather than through the website. Coffee@yellowbourbon.co.uk cheers.

Sumatran - we liked it so much we bought the last 2kg

Nob. I loved that too!

First order from YBCR just in time for the new setup arriving tomorrow :)

buy some cheap beans to get everything dialled in roughly first.

That's not a bad idea. Have an old bag of electric coffee I forgot about until recently, so pasts it's best - should work?

you won't get consistent results from old coffee but while you get the hang of everything you can bang through a handful of shots that go down the sink just to get the feel for it before using the £0.40p a cup beans.

Anyone here used the YBCR Sumatran on a V60?

I've started at 15g/250ml and not had great results, and although I'm sure that's just down to my lack of experience getting a balanced extraction with V60, wondering if anyone has a better recipe that's worked for them?

When I had it I was working on 16.5g/200ml.

Edit: assuming it's the same one, Wahana Microlot?

Just bought my ticket to the YBCR club. Excite.

I like it at 18g/250ml it’s a big gutsy coffee that one so don’t be shy with it.

How you doing it?

Like Steve says if i find something isn’t tasting quite there I usually up the volume of coffee. Then look at grind, technique etc

Opened my last box of Sumatra this morning. Good way to start the week

We opened our last kg of Sumatra on Saturday. It’s stunning, a riot of flavours.

I had trouble with that and had to try a lot of different grinds/brew ratios.

how does one go about ordering coffee from @StevePeel ?

There's a webshop. See a few pages back.

https://yellowbourbon.net/collections/shop

Thanks @StevePeel and @rhb, appreciate the help. 16.5g/200ml nailed it for me. Came out really juicy. Very nice!

@Tenderloin, I'm using a hario V60 size 02, 50ml bloom, 50ml at 30 seconds and 100ml at 1 minute.

After a few years of drinking pour-overs at coffee shops and never having made any myself, I thought I'd try learn some more about coffee so I can have a nice brew at home too.

Yeh, I haven't got a grinder myself (yet) so had some of the beans ground at my local shop to the grind size they'd usually start with when dialling in a coffee there. So I'm sure I won't get the best cup possible at home but that tasted great and much nicer than the very bitter cups I made before I posted here.

Luckily I've got half a box left 👌🏻

Similar to Fyoosh, I ordered a nicer coffee the other day but it's not tasting great. I'm currently brewing at 6-7g/100ml and it's coming out tasting a bit of cardboard. The initial flavour is fine, but the aftertaste is not.

Method is V60, just enough water to soak coffee at first, bloom for 30 seconds, then slowly add the rest. Brewing 500ml each time.

Will increasing to 8g / 100ml potentially help this? Can the ratio change the actual flavour or will I get the same flavour but increased?

Filters are the same? You washing them first?

Yep, same filters, always washed

As this thread runs to 547 pages, I assume more or less everything has been covered; but just in case.

I am currently working my way through a selection of samples from Coffee by Tate.

The Tate galleries roast their own coffee. More here:

http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/coffee-by-tate

I usually brew 19g to 350ml (which is about 5.5g to 100ml) but then adjust as needed using this coffee compass from Matthew Perger. It's very handy for turning average brews into great brews.

@Fyoosh This'll help you adjust things when grind size is set by adjusting water volume and/or coffee weight.

@StevePeel not to be too cheeky, is the doaskid discount still working because it appears to take a small set amount off rather than a % discount?