*Moony's desperate times.* It may all be happening this Thursday, but what do I do in the meantime? I'm down to Merlo Forza or Zentveld's Byron blend.. and that ain't a good place to be in. 😢 Hmm? .. wonder what that ground coffee is .. sitting in the small air-tight container in my cupboard? Might as well give that a shot I reckon. Not being labelled, hopefully it is leftover grinds from trying to get the grind right for the Yirg, Major Tom or one of the Merlo's Private blend or Riveria .. then again, it could be Forza or Byron blend - crikey .. here goes. Man .. it must have bean one of the latter .. and after screwing my face up in disgust .. it was straight over to the sink. Ok .. looks like a trip down to the local Deli for either some NZ Supreme or a blast from the past, and purchase an old favorite back in the day .. Coffex - Super Bar. The coffee dispensers they use are large .. and I was tempted to ask for a scoop off the top .. as I doubt they are turned over quickly enough to fall below the month that I give beans before they are getting a bit over the hill. As my request may insinuate that his beans are stale, and therefore risking insulting the bloke .. whom I am quite chummy with .. I resisted the temptation - at my own peril. The upside of making the trip was that I could get one of their home-made Spanakopitas that I have indulged in many a time in the past. For those of you who don't know what this is .. it is fetta/ricotta cheese, spinach, onion, egg wrapped in a filo pastry - Greek. My idea of an ideal brekky .. topped off - of course - with a tasty latte. After consuming this with much delight, rating a 9.2/10 (very yummy) - I then proceeded with making the coffee. I opened the packet and checked the aroma of the beans to get an idea of how fresh they were. After doing this with beans freshly roasted and with those you've had hanging around in the cupboard for a couple of months .. you start getting to know the difference. In this case, it was unfortunately smelling like the latter. Damn - I knew not taking the beans off the top would come back to bite me. :head: Used my usual grind setting - and checked the aroma of the grinds .. which lacked vibrancy .. very low key - which wasn't a good sign either. I then took a pinch of the grinds to rub between my fingers - to check the texture, which was dryish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Coffex - Super Bar Tamp - medium Pour - 10 secs + 3 secs = 13 secs for 37ml. As it was gushing .. and being so quick, I figured that a few more seconds when the grinds were saturated .. might add a bit more flavour. Anyway .. after tasting --> a 'shock horror' moment .. it made it to the sink in quick fashion. 2. Coffex - Super Bar The 2nd cup was dosed up .. and tamped hard to slow it down. As with the first cup, I had to use multiple fellinis in order to dispel the air from the cylinder .. which seems to be the case when using dry, usually light-weighted grinds that don't offer up enough resistance, and end in fast pours. The result was similar to the first. Pour - 10 secs+3 =13 for 35ml Rating - 7.9/10 I won't grace this with an 8/10 - that signifies a 'nice' coffee. *Too bad I didn't think of this when first rating the Forza 8/10 .. sheesh.. oh well. The 2nd half of the cup was much better than it started out .. otherwise it would have been fortunate to have rated a 7. Well .. I didn't get to experience my ideal brecky this time around. What I am more concerned about though .. is that having gone down to the Deli to purchase some more beans .. didn't end up solving my dilemma. I'm still left with what am I going to do until I can get back to some good quality beans this coming Thursday? That's a whopping 5 days away :tearhair:... and I'm still left with crap coffee. Take a breath .. patience Grasshopper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life would be a whole lot more simple .. if only I had stuck with drinking Nescafe.. and in my blissful ignorance .. still believed I was drinking nice coffee. lol -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
