I think Muscles might be a man after my own espresso-based heart. Muscles - was this roasted about 10 days ago? It's still de-gassing quite massively! There's a dark, full-bodied flavour that I really appreciate. Quite smooth, but you can taste the edge of the robusta and the unmistakable developing MM. There's very little acidity or 'brightness' to it, which I like. I find way too many roasts too 'bright' from commercial roasters and it leads me to suspect a longer roast time 18mins + for this roast... All in all, it's my kind of espresso, but I think it's going to get better in the following week. It doesn't help that I'm working on an unfamiliar machine that doesn't yet give me the subtleties that I'm used to with the BZ09. I think perhaps some of the edge that I'm attributing to robusta might be the slightly-too-high temp of this machine. My wife wasn't sure about it in milk - she asked if it was recently roasted right off the bat. Thanks for the treat Muscles, I'll keep you up to date with how it progresses.
