I must admit I'm getting confused with which roast is which. The two cups I've tried this morning have both been what I believe is 160C - 5m, 190C - 4m. It's very light, smells very nice like chocolate, but with both cups I've had (grinded at 5 and then 8) they have been acidy like regular coffee, watery like regular coffee and no more taste. The ...
What a difference 45 seconds makes! I had a cup of the 176C - 2m, 204C - 3m, 232C - 3m that I roasted the 12th, which is 45 seconds shorter than the roast of the 10th and it's got so much less flavour. It still tastes nice, but there are big things missing. Very interesting since these 45 seconds were slashed because I thought they'd need to be less ...
Today has been a quite caffeinated day. I've had two cups of the light preset 1 roast, one grinded at 4 and one at 6. Both turned out quite bitter. Luckily my milk frothing is going better by the day, so they turned out to be quite drinkable.
The next I tried was the now four days old 176C - 2m, 204C - 3m, 232C - 3m45s. I dialled in 6 and ...
Todays cups were the four day old roast of preset 1 (only two handfulls of beans left) and the five day old very dark roast of preset 2.
The preset 1 was the first one to go. The beans made just a double basket at setting 4 on the Rocky. How little coffee two handfulls of beans give doesn't cease to amaze me. The crema was there but by the ...