Animal Excreted Coffee Beans
Animal Excreted Coffee Beans
Anyone try the new bird processed coffee yet from Sweet Maria's?
...and on the same subject, has anyone tried any of the other "animal" processed coffees? Just wondering what people think of it.
I got my bird crap coffee in the mail yesterday but I haven't found time to roast it yet, it looks....i n t e r e s t i n g.
And yes, I did buy it for the novelty and everyone I've told about it in my circle of friends and family won't visit for a cup of coffee anymore.
I wonder why?
...and on the same subject, has anyone tried any of the other "animal" processed coffees? Just wondering what people think of it.
I got my bird crap coffee in the mail yesterday but I haven't found time to roast it yet, it looks....i n t e r e s t i n g.
And yes, I did buy it for the novelty and everyone I've told about it in my circle of friends and family won't visit for a cup of coffee anymore.
I wonder why?
You mean, grind+EXCRETE under pressure = Americano.jackiechang wrote:I think it's: grind+extract under pressure, add water=americano.
Lately, all my shots taste like animal excreted somethings...I've been under a tremendous "coffee block" and everything I'm producing has been horrible. So after I get my game back, I'll roast the Jacu Bird coffee and report. I need to check my brew temps because todays shots were BITTER.
I know what that is like, Niko. I've had spans of bad coffee like that for six or eight weeks. A cleverer person would have given up, but I was fool enough to persist and finally get to some very decent shots.
You will do the same, I'm sure. Possibly, in a lot less time, given your extreme volume of output.
You will do the same, I'm sure. Possibly, in a lot less time, given your extreme volume of output.
I used to have it but recently I lost it, meaning "the touch". My friends used to say "Niko got game", now I got woes beyond belief and I'm considering hanging up my portafilters and drink drip coffee for the rest of my days. It all started a few weeks ago when my steaming started to act up only to realize that my problem wasn't mental (yet) but rather physical, there was some debris that shot out of the steam wand and that's when the troubles began. After cleaning the rest of the UFO's out of the wand, the steam power returned with a vengeance in a way that I had to learn how to steam on my own machine all over again. It drove me crazy that I couldn't produce the right kind of foam to save my life, my microfoam turned to seafoam and my seafoam turned into something I can't even describe. When I finally sorted out my steaming mess, my shots turned to hell, it was unbelievable and I still haven't regained my shot performance. I had distribution issues as well as channel city, my shots were starting to look like words I cannot use on this forum. I then strapped on the ol' bottomless to get a visual and everything went well, the beads came along followed by a nice pour with the nice striping and so on...but the shot. The shot tasted so bad, so bitter that I spit it out into the sink yet again. I've been producing wonderful sink shots all week, they look beautiful with the tiger striping/flecking and everything you want in a shot to look like. I've been changing the variables all week, which makes matters worse but this isn't out of the ordinary for me since I've always tried new beans and techniques, etc..
It's just one of those days that turned into one of those weeks which turned into one of those months! Goodbye May and hello June, hopefully this new month will change for me because I'm really close to busting out the french press.
I have lost my confidence.
...but I'm still hanging on to my tamper.
It's just one of those days that turned into one of those weeks which turned into one of those months! Goodbye May and hello June, hopefully this new month will change for me because I'm really close to busting out the french press.
I have lost my confidence.
...but I'm still hanging on to my tamper.
Niko, if you've had the game, you can retrieve it. You just have to keep on until some mysterious something clicks--comes out right. I hate to talk like a mystic, but it seems that espresso works along those lines at times.
By the way, among those variables you tried, did you try down-dosing to 14 grams? That was one of the blockbusters for me. Can't guarantee that it will do the same for you, but it's a direction to use if you haven't been there already.
Whatever happens, I wish you well and don't want to see you let your tamper drop out of reach.
By the way, among those variables you tried, did you try down-dosing to 14 grams? That was one of the blockbusters for me. Can't guarantee that it will do the same for you, but it's a direction to use if you haven't been there already.
Whatever happens, I wish you well and don't want to see you let your tamper drop out of reach.
Jacu Bird Shot!!
The taste is "gamey"...ha ha.
Anyways, it was fun to pull some shots with the stuff and it was very tasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1f3HRZMiAI
The taste is "gamey"...ha ha.
Anyways, it was fun to pull some shots with the stuff and it was very tasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1f3HRZMiAI