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I can confirm that Finca El Fuerte is very similar to Finca Las Alasitas - very chocolatey without being over-cooked and unfortunately perfectly suited to making me eat vast amounts of highly calorific bread and peanut butter :oops:
And once again, it actually makes me appreciate acidity - something that has massively put me off beans in the past - and I realise now that this is one of the things coffee delivers over and above what cocoa does ... though this "revelation" is now going to make me start drinking cocoa again - and I have some hipsterish "cacao" somewhere that I never actually got around to trying :hmm:
 
My beloved Guatemala El Bosque is back at Hasbean - super yummy dark chocolate - I think I could spot a slight difference when compared to the Bolivian Caturra beans and these Bourbon (from memory from last weekend) - seemed a little less "refined" perhaps ... the beans seemed a bit fatter and lighter in colour.

Perhaps next week instead of demolishing two separate one-scoop brews of the El Bosque, I will brew one of each side-by side ...

Whether or not I find I prefer one or the other, at least I know I'm not dependant on only one bean.
A third type I really loved were some Papua New Guinea beans my local-ish place had several years back...
 
Those other threads remind me of why I enjoy coffee made this way.
With the after-effects of this morning's coffee still lingering, I can imagine the nasty, stale taste of instant coffee ... yuck.
I went through a phase of tolerating Carte Noir and supermarket sliced bread (Allinsons seeded), but I couldn't do it now.

I was delivering a new PC to a client the other day and was asked if I would like "tea or coffee", and as usual I had to politely decline without showing the disappointment on my face - knowing it was something powdered in a mug ...
 
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I still haven't managed to try both coffees anything like side by side, but I just had a cup of the Guatemalan and I would say it's less like cocoa and slightly more acidic than the Bolivian.
 
It's giving me a headache, but I forced myself to have seconds this morning - half a mug of the first Bolivian beans I bought - roasted 8th October so two months in the bag.

Pure cocoa :)

Perfect with freshly baked "Cotswold Crunch" bread spread with "Rhapsodie de Fruit" marmalade.

I want to breakfast like this for the rest of my life :)
 
Sadly Hasbean ran out of the chocolatey Bolivian, so I have another bag of El Bosque beans heading my way.

Yesterday for the first time I forgot to put the filter in my aeropress - my early morning brain puzzled over the faster through-put, but I didn't spot the filter in the sink until later.
I swear it was still less gritty to drink than a caférière - even though there was an impressive amount of fine sediment.
 
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I accidentally posted this on another thread, so apologies if you're reading it again:

So, I haz bulletproof coffee.

For unaware, is feted 'paleo' recipe with alleged health benefits, energy, cognitive functioning, etc.
Details here:
https://blog.bulletproof.com/how-to-make-your-coffee-bulletproof-and-your-morning-too/

I made it cos I unexpectedly got hold of some MCT oil I was able to try out.

So, it was nice enough. Like many non-milk things though I felt it just obscured parts of the coffee flavour profile, which is something I'm particularly not keen on (I don't like brown sugar in coffee for the same reason). I had no sensation of oiliness at all (a complaint from some reviews). Overall it was a pleasant coffee, but inferior in taste to a milky one.

As for the health benefits, who knows? I'm nicely buzzed for sure, but - that butter content! Fuck consuming that every morning.
 
:hmm:

I only drink coffee when I'm home and with food.
The first slice of home-made bread / toast almost always has peanut butter on, so I suppose I'm achieving the same sort of thing - but "Brain Octane Oil" :D
 
I finally got around to super-gluing my aeropress which I dropped quite a few weeks ago.
I drilled a stop-hole at the focus of the crack.
If this should prove inadequate, I have nylon silk-screen and epoxy.

brokenaeropress.jpg
 
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Currently (yes, at midnight plus 30!) drinking a mug of The Bean Shop's Old Brown Java, which I discovered when my friend (and former Urbanite) Gniewosz told me where she got her really-very-nice decaf beans from. I bought some, but also the Old Brown Java, and found I really like them both - weirdly, the decaf in the morning, and the caffed at night!
 
Luckily I was at home on Thursday when my order arrived as the postman was adamant that 250g of beans wouldn't fit through the letterbox - unlike on several recent occasions.
Perhaps he thought they were fragile :hmm:
 
I'm drinking 'The best Brazilian Beans' from morrisons. They are NOT the best. I'm vex cus this is the first cup of coffee for two days and I am extremely disappointed.
When I ground them they smelt weird -kinda prawn shell fishy- not the usual aroma of coffee foreplay that gets me excited ;).
And that's just how the coffee tastes.......how disappointing. I discarded my first cup cus I made it with barista almond milk:oops::facepalm:- awful!
Third time lucky.......gonna make it with the organic medium roast Peruvian.
 
Lidl have 2 types of bean, we get both and mix them in the grinder half and half. Cheap and cheerful.
 
Have just discovered the delights of making my own flavoured coffee.

Cardamon with cinnamon & nutmeg is flavour of the month here.
 
I grew up with my parents' twin tub 13 amp plug overheating on a regular basis and emitting a fishy smell.
It was the same with the wire fuse box I had every Sunday when I switched on the immersion heater for a bath...
 
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