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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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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Test driving four different V60 coffee recipes: Tetsu, Cafec, Onyx, Hoffmann
I’ve been using the Tetsu 4-6 recipe daily for almost a year, but recently started wondering how it stacks up against popular alternatives. The best way to find out would be to try it out myself.
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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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Comparing paper and metal filters for V60 pour over coffee
The key difference lies in the trade-off between clarity and body. If you prefer clean and bright pour over coffee, then paper filters are the way to go. But if you like heavier-bodied brews with a syrupy mouthfeel, then you’d enjoy using metal filters more.
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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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