Kaffebox Advent Calendar Day 4
This is day four of the Kaffebox Advent calendar.
We are brewing a Kamagogo AA, which is a washed Kenyan roasted by Frukt, 2024-25 harvest, and it's a mixture of SL28, SL34, Batian, and Ryuru 11.
I've never heard of Ryuru.
It's 1,800 meters above sea level.
I originally brewed this with the included recipe, which was a standard 1 pour recipe, which I did not particularly love, so I am using my 2 pour recipe, which is a bloom and then 2 pours, and we brewed 16 to 260.
They have a recommended ratio of 15 to 250 at 94, and we did 95 degrees Celsius.
So currently the aroma we are getting off it is extremely juicy and citrusy, as mentioned by the flavor notes.
The flavor notes are intense, juicy red berries, citrus, and rhubarb.
We ground this at 19 on the Q air, as it recommends 700 to 950 um.
Initial tasting notes are that this was actually probably slightly too overextracted.
I'm thinking my heat was a drop too high, though the recipe does taste better than it did when I followed that recipe, so I wonder if I dropped this to like 90 C, but with the two pours.
But either way, initial impressions, it's a Kenya.
A very Kenya-ey Kenya it's quite intense, and we shall see how it develops as it goes off.
Getting a very nice Kenyan feel.
A medium level of acidity, but unfortunately, it's quite bitter.
I think this coffee has a ton of potential, but I think both of my brews of it made it lay pretty flat.
Unfortunately, it is not very sweet, though it does have a lot of flavor intensity.
I could see great potential with it, but it's just not hitting where I wanted it to be.
I'm going to give this an aroma of 9 out of 10.
Acidity: acidity was pleasant. I'll give it a 6 out of 10.
Sweetness was a 3 out of 10.
Body: very nice body. 8 out of 10.
And flavor was a... I would say a 7 out of 10.
Probably could have been bumped up a bit more if it was a drop sweeter.
Sometimes just gotta slow dowwwwwwwwwn
And I jumped the gun on this one way too fast.
I should have let it cool way down.
Now it's basically lukewarm. And it's kind of hitting hard.
It's still not as sweet as I want it to be.
But instead of being like a 3 on sweetness, it's more of a 6 on sweetness.
So, I would rate this coffee overall probably like an 8 out of 10.
Whereas before, it probably would have been closer to a 6.5/10.
Flavors are extremely intense red fruit.
Followed by a long, like, bitter aftertaste.
But like, really fruit forward at the front.
But the linger and aftertaste gets really, really bitter.
Which is probably the rhubarb.
This is day 46 of #100DaysToOffload
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