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So, how’s it going?
I received and have tried the Pinot Barrel Aged coffee.
The wine flavour was a lot less pronounced than the Bourbon Barrel Aged one I had last year. The bourbon one hit you with a bourbon smell from the second you opened the bag, and the flavour carried through to the coffee.
Maybe the wine flavour/smell is just less distinct than bourbon?
In any case, the coffee is good but the wine-ness is subtle.
Subtle sounds good. But do you really want your coffee to taste/smell like wine?
Or just add some wine to your coffee 😆
Haha I’m not sure what I was expecting, the stronger bourbon one was good! I’m not a fan of wine, so I guess I should be happy it doesn’t taste like I’m sipping wine 😆
After making a coffee, we often add a small glug of whiskey to the cup, whatever’s on the shelf, tastes great.
Haha I’m sure it does, but I’m not sure I’ve quite reached the place where I put whiskey in my coffee at 7am 😆
Oh, on a related note, I saw something that said 1kg of coffee should make 90-100 coffees.
Am I using way more coffee than the average person? Maybe you can do that with espresso, but I’m using like 5 tablespoons of ground coffee to make one coffee! Any less and it seems too weak.
That’s about 25g of coffee, which is 40 cups to the kg.
Hmm, I haven’t weighed how much I use but a normal sized bag o’ beans usually lasts me around 10 days or so, and I have 2 coffees every day, with my partner having a couple a week. So that’s about 25 coffees a bag maybe.
How big is the bag? It’s pretty common to have 200g, 500g, and 1kg options when buying online.
I think the supermarkets are normally 200g or 500g.
If you’re using a 500g bag, that’s not too different to my usage.
I self-grind and each double shot espresso takes 12-15g. Measured it recently to gauge the cost per brew ratio. Could be your brewing process idk.
Oh definitely related, I use an Aeropress (kinda like a French press) and I put in twice as much coffee as they say to. And at the same time, I’m using a mug so it’s probably twice as much liquid as a cafe long black so that explains twice the coffee.
My coffee doesn’t seem that big to me, but I guess their estimate is based on a single shot of espresso.