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so pulled the cast iron don pacho a bit longer, 17g to 42g out and it mellowed the proseco a bit and added some sweetness

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a month later

I need to order some beans - light / medium light both for filters and espressos. The beans also need to cut well with milk as a flat white. Any recommendations please?

I am looking at

  • Foundry’s Guatemala,
  • Crankhouse’s Shoondhisa and Mio Estate
  • Not sure about Darkarts Roadrash. The lady on the phone said mainly it is for filter, isn’t sure about milk. She asked the roaster, who said busy and can’t answer! 🙄

I’ve had the shoondhisa. Was quite mellow, I liked it as a black coffee.

Prob wouldn’t cut well in milk

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      seen them but not tried,

      i need a fresh order soon, last 250g of crankhouse just opened,

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      3 months later

      LMSC

      Yes I’ve bought from Unorthodox a good few times, never had a bad bag from them. I personally wouldn’t hesitate to buy from them any time.

      20 days later

      LMSC I just ordered 4 bags from them so will come back in a couple weeks with my thoughts!

        LMSC All beans are roasted light

        I just looked at their website and the coffee looks good.

        When you say the above statement, where did you see that information? I couldn’t find it.

        • LMSC replied to this.

          MediumRoastSteam I am afraid I no longer remember. It’s been a while! 😊 Sorry!

          I can see from the description that the below are light roasts

          Safari
          Wee Stoater
          Kaleidoscope

          a month later

          Jacquesburg do you have some thoughts to share? I just had a browse and just by the way they talk about their coffees I’m all in. Seems to be some real passion and knowledge there. And i love a roaster that leans hard into funkier coffees. (When i worked at Rave for a bit, it was a running joke that im a sucker for a good high altitude natty)

          I’ve put in an order for a bag of natural Brazilian peaberry ‘Ultimate Stoater’. Will report back with spro and filter findings

            9 days later

            Colonna right now and Django both filter .

            tobyjrn6 Findings: Really phenomenal coffee, espresso and filter. I think I probably pulled my favourite shot ever yesterday. I wouldnt usually gravitate towards Brazil but something about some of the slightly higher altitude, slightly denser naturals from there really does it for me. It’s like you get all of the juicy fruit of an ethiopia plus some rounded chocolate on top. Really incredible stuff.

            The spro is boozey and syrupy, the filter cleans right up and you can pick some of the more delicate fruity floral notes

              16 days later

              that time of the month again,

              any discount codes or deals on medium roasts for choc/nut etc

              need a kilo for the mrs

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              20 days later
              7 days later

              I started roasting 15 or more years ago because commercial roasters at the time were really terrible - Hasbean’s barely roasted style was all the rage and all the “Artisan” roasters were joining the bandwagon, most of them didn’t seem to have the faintest clue. It seems that fashion has moved on and generally people have more knowledge and are roasting more sensibly now (not sure about Hasbean). 

              I brought some of this today  - 

              The Sunset Espresso Coffee (stewartscoffees.co.uk)

              Loving it, and grudgingly I will admit that they seem to know what they are up to. Its good enough to make me think seriously about giving up home roasting.