Till now I tried beans from the whole world in various quality to challenge my taste buds. However I believe the time has come to do some changes in my procedure.
From now on I will try to also do some specific “brand beans”, meaning I will try to import and buy on my trips some local beans looking if the same origin but roasted locally change the taste.
Coffee Beans
For the first trip in this topic I will try beans from Kora (https://www.laaurora.com.do/producto/cafe-kora/?lang=en). Those beans were given to me as a gift from a trip to the Dominican Republic. Moreover when I looked online, you could only buy them at the Cigars factory, so that should make them quite unique start.
The beans itself looked and smell good, however I was also expecting a bit of tobacco scent which surprisingly wasn’t here.
After the grind they were a bit more sticking to the jar than I thought, so I had to help them get into the Chemex. No change in the smell.
Acidity Research
This is the new block, that every coffee post will have from now on. At start I always mentioned I don’t enjoy acidity in the taste of my coffee, so I decided it’s time to measure it to see if it was really the thing. I will be using Milwaukee pH55 Pro meter, it’s not the best but since I don’t even drink the coffee daily having something more expensive looked stupid. Unless I will get 0 results from this one I hope it will manage for the next 2 years.
With the next post I will also try to gather the data in some kind of table or graph, so we can look at it.
Coffee Rating
- Flavor – 8 a solid coffee which I thought will be worse.
- Bitterness – 7 first cup had no bitterness at all, however the second one had a definite bitter aftertaste
- Acidity – 7 didn’t feel it too much, and 5.8 sounds like it’s not that acidic
- Sweetness – 1 no sweetness found in here on my side
- Initial rating – 7 I won’t take the sweetness to lower its overall rating because I feel like it would unfairly lower it
- After time rating – To be updated
Conclusion
A solid start in this new journey, low acidity and enjoyable smell and taste.
