Rob1 You’ll probably be surprised if you had a colour analyser to see the agtron reading. I used to use the sweet maria’s guide but found my roasts are actually lighter than expected based on that visually.
Thanks Rob1 I was wondering about that, as the City+ beans mentioned in my post (that I am trying to dial in) look ALOT lighter in ground colour than the ground beans from my goto decaf Full City+/Vienna beans. I am now guessing that my beans are City.
As I have other espresso equipment priorities before I would consider buying a colour analyzer (unless there are low priced but sufficiently functional units available), is there a ground beans colour chart that I could acquire that would work sufficiently?
Still struggling to dial in my latest decaf beans purchase (I’m 5 shots into that and still not enjoying the taste). I will pull a further 4 shots this AM, and hopefully 🤞 dial these beans in. I’ll post on that shortly.