It looks like the utility work that has the street closed isn't ripping up everything (at least not yet). There's someone out there now sawing out a chunk along the dotted lines. I'm going to leave the house just in case they get any ideas about trapping my car in the driveway, but it should be okay. There aren't any lines painted in front of that yet.
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Some people like that flavor, and in the context of this coffee is sweet and clean, and if that vegetal flavor was intended and enjoyed by this roaster's customer base, good job. Nailed it. Personally, my preference is to always get above that temperature and thus eliminate that particular flavor. You can still do a light roast to a hotter end temperature if that's what you want, but a slightly slower, slightly darker roast would also boost body and sweetness with this coffee.
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Very light roast, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there's a distinct vegetal flavor that comes across like if you were to suck on the raw coffee. I devote a whole slide to this in my latest class and this flavor is highly correlated with ending temperature. On my machine the transition point is a temperature 1/5 between cracks.
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First the good. It's obvious that this started out as a high quality raw coffee. No processing defects. Also no roasting defects, good physical development. The bag is reasonably informative and has cool art on it. This coffee had the potential to be super-sweet.
I wouldn't want something like this to be my only espresso machine because with something like this it's too easy to come up with an espresso that can only be delicious on a similar machine (home espresso enthusiasts and the vast majority of shops need not apply) but as a 2nd machine or outside of a blend development context there's a lot you can do with that.
I got to play around with this a little bit in Boston. The 2 group would just barely fit in my bays (so doesn't leave a lot of work space) and it's out of my budget, but the tech seems solid so I'll have to keep my eye on if they're able to shrink that down a bit both on footprint and price (or for some future 2nd shop). https://www.duvallespresso.com/fc1-machine
The funding display on https://typica.us/ now shows the $100 someone gave me at Expo. That doubled the amount collected so far this year. Thank you.
Author of Typica software for coffee roasters.