Give Your Coffee a Rating - Is it a 9.5/10 ?

C-man

speaking of Roasting and cup quality (slightly off topic) I have never tasted a home roast that would compare to top professional roasts Roasting is simple to get decent good coffee, but when we want high scoring cups it becomes very complex, even green storage and import shipping methods play a part in cup quality. I know Jeff will no longer buy SBB (one of my favorites) green because Volcafe stopped shipping it in grainpro liners, so it loses cup quality by the time it arrives in the warehouse. what I am saying is there is much more behind the scenes just with the beans before we even consider the brewing equipment.

Brett_H

It took me a while ... Sumatran Blue Buttocks!

C-man

Cosmic couple has sourced a Yirgy according to my request I would say it is some of the best coffee I have had in a long time always pouring 9+ maybe 9.5+ just delicious

Kevohere

C-man wrote:

I have never tasted a home roast that would compare to top professional roasts

That statement would be a good debate on its own C-man. So many variables in there. From Mini Minors (pan roasted) to the Rolls Royces (Has Garantis etc), the quality of the machine and its driver skills will affect performance. I pass on a couple of my home roasts to a local professional for feedback and have got the thumbs up each time. Mind you, I only offered what I thought was good and none of the not-so-good roasts of which there have been a few....... or more! :angel: I do however occasionally buy "professionally" roasted in an attempt to keep my taste buds and roast skills on track.

C-man wrote:

what I am saying is there is much more behind the scenes just with the beans before we even consider the brewing equipment.

How very very true and a good point to raise here.

Brett_H

I'm drinking a Guatemalan home roast that's as good as any I've paid for. Perhaps by tastebuds aren't all they should be; however, subjectivity aside the assertion that a home roast can't be as good as the top pro roasts is a statement I disagree with. I will concede that a home roast can't be as consistently good as a top commercial roaster's product but the stars do align even for the humbe home roaster.

Moon

The 3 best I've had mycuppas (professionally roasted) - Guatemala ..single origin Jonty's (home roasted) Yirg and Indian TM .. single origins KK's (home roasted Yirg) .. single origin *Jonty's were as ugly as sin .. but in the cup were sensational. Being a very dark roast & oily .. these couldn't be sold commercially like that. Home roasters can be more experimental and take risks. So .. in my experience so far .. home roasted beans are right up there. KK and Jonty have certainly proven to me that the homies can outdo many of the Pros out there roasting for the Commercial brands .. well, err .. according to my taste buds.

Lacehim

C-man wrote:

Cosmic couple has sourced a Yirgy according to my request I would say it is some of the best coffee I have had in a long time always pouring 9+ maybe 9.5+ just delicious

So you have it then? Where's mine!??????

Lacehim

Moon wrote:

The 3 best I've had mycuppas (professionally roasted) - Guatemala ..single origin Jonty's (home roasted) Yirg and Indian TM .. single origins KK's (home roasted Yirg) .. single origin *Jonty's were as ugly as sin .. but in the cup were sensational. Being a very dark roast & oily .. these couldn't be sold commercially like that. Home roasters can be more experimental and take risks. So .. in my experience so far .. home roasted beans are right up there. KK and Jonty have certainly proven to me that the homies can outdo many of the Pros out there roasting for the Commercial brands .. well, err .. according to my taste buds.

ugly doesn't mean a thing, it's whats inside that counts! 🙂

Brett_H

Lacehim wrote:

ugly doesn't mean a thing, it's whats inside that counts! 🙂

Ugly can also be expensive: Yemen for instance sometimes doesn't look like its price tag but wow, in the cup it's sensational!

askthecoffeeguy

I give my coffee an 8.5 out of 10 - im always searching for the god shot! currently roasting cuba turquino on a corretto getting great results drinking it as a 3/4 latte on my modded rancilio epoca, good hardy industrial machine just started corretto roasting and im getting better results that on my gene cafe and that cost me an arm and a leg - much more even roast with no charring or tipping! P

Brett_H

askthe coffeeguy wrote:

I give my coffee an 8.5 out of 10 - im always searching for the god shot! currently roasting cuba turquino on a corretto getting great results drinking it as a 3/4 latte on my modded rancilio epoca, good hardy industrial machine just started corretto roasting and im getting better results that on my gene cafe and that cost me an arm and a leg - much more even roast with no charring or tipping! P

Wow... Controversial statement. I like it!!

askthecoffeeguy

Brett H wrote:

Wow... Controversial statement. I like it!!

i think the difference is that the corretto has IMHO much better heat retention properties: because its teflon coated the heat is deflected back into the mix where as the glass walls of the gene cafe tend to scold the beans because they're such a good transmitter of heat - not all the time mind you and i still get some excellent results with the gene cafe but I find it much harder to get repeatable results under the same conditions than i do with the gene cafe