Our daily coffee is brewed with Ethiopian beans, but a recent 1-for-1 offer provided us with the opportunity to explore those from India, Uganda and Honduras.
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Buying African beans from Blue Bottle Coffee in Samcheongdong
A wide selection was on display, together with their origins, tasting notes and prices. They were sold in unusually large 300gm bags, with blends going for ₩25,000 and single-origins for ₩35,000.
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Containing our coffee cost with 1kg of beans from Jewel Coffee
Breaking it down, our home-brewed coffee now costs S$0.76, S$1.18 and S$0.86 for each cup of V60, latte and Americano respectively.
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Taking one tiny step towards espresso with the Wacaco Picopresso
It made a latte that was rich, bright, fruity and chocolatey, all at the same time. It was good. Really good. Like café quality good.
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Expanding my coffee horizons with Nordic-style light roasts from 20grams
Ever since I started taking my pour over coffee seriously, I’ve been buying mostly medium-roasted beans. But the deeper I go down the rabbit hole, the more I read about the wonders of light roasts. It was time to do some exploration.
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The time has come to upgrade our baseline coffee beans
Looks like it’s goodbye, old friend. Thank you for your service, and for all the happy caffeine memories.
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I’m seriously tempted by Nylon Coffee’s monthly filter subscription
The subscription coffees are usually posted on their Instagram page upon release, and recent ones from Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya and Honduras look quite interesting and attractive. Both The Wife and I would have particularly enjoyed the Ethiopia Kedir Bali that was offered earlier this January.
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One year of V60 coffee with freshly roasted beans from local roasters
During the past year, we sampled widely across various country origins, coffee varietals and processing methods. Here’s what we found after trying 33 different coffees from 9 local Singaporean roasters.
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Three weeks of Panama Gesha beans from Finca Santa Teresa
During a micro-lot auction held at the Singapore International Coffee Convention in July 2021, the highest bid of US$77 per kilogram was recorded for Gesha beans grown by Finca Santa Teresa in Panama.
After you factor in mark-ups for distribution, storage, roasting, packaging and retail, it’s not surprising that a bag of freshly-roasted beans can sell for upwards of S$40 per 250gm.
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Immersion brewing without the right equipment
It’s been almost six months since I decided to stop buying more coffee equipment, and so far, I’ve been successful in resisting temptation. But I’ve been curious about how different my morning coffee would taste if I used immersion brewing, instead of my usual V60 percolation. To figure it out properly, I would have to buy either a Clever Dripper, AeroPress or French press. Or… I could hack something up, using stuff I already had in the kitchen.
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