{"id":255,"date":"2025-02-07T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-05-11T00:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:19:41","slug":"coffee-trail-and-error-early-tryouts-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/coffee-trail-and-error-early-tryouts-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Trial and Error \u2013 Early tryouts \u2013 Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The journey around the world continues for the best beans yet, or at least close to the Jamaican ones<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The journey came a bit to a halt since I had many of the same beans and also switched to matcha for a while, but I am ready to try next ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coffee Beans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Another bag I got from a hypermarket instead of specialized coffee shop. This time while drinking that I was also was making myself one from selected Costa Rica roasted beans hoping for a different taste. Just like the last time unfortunately on the bag there is no indication about the sweetness\/sourness or any other indication what to expect, apart from roast level and just plain information 100% Arabica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The beans look perfectly normal and fine to me and the smell was really strong. The color after griding was pretty much the same as the last ones, I wouldn’t expect anything else to tell the truth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When it comes to the brewing method for now I am done with trying new methods. For now because of the time I will be stick to the simple method, a little amount of water at start for coffee to bloom, then after 30-40 seconds start pouring rest of the water in two phases of around 1 minute. To my surprise this coffee turned out rather quite clear and bright with a shade of red color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When it comes to the taste it was a bit better in my opinion than the last one from Honduras, though the Costa Rican one I also did in the mean time was above leaving me, a bit sad every time I drank it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coffee Rating<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Flavor<\/strong> – 6 – wasn’t any better than the last one, but I guess it’s still an achievement when it comes in taste<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bitterness<\/strong> – 6 – was a bit bitter didn’t mind it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Acidity<\/strong> – 5 – since it was a medium roast I expected it to be as a bit worse, but it was in ok range for me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sweetness<\/strong> – 1 – nothing advertised and nothing I could feel<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Initial rating<\/strong> – 5 – it’s an ok coffee to make without thinking too much about the method<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • After time rating<\/strong> – 5- nothing really changed in my opinion, it could’ve lost some bitterness with the passage of time, but didn’t really affected my opinion <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    If it’s on sale it wouldn’t hurt as a coffee in hurry or to go, where you don’t have time for whole process, since it tastes the same no matter what I did. I personally probably won’t visit it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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    The journey around the world continues for the best beans yet, or at least close to the Jamaican ones The journey came a bit to a halt since I had many of the same beans and also switched to matcha for a while, but I am ready to try next ones. Coffee Beans Another bag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldwisebear.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}