brew

pre-heat started with 308.9 g purified water.
used 299.2 g for pre-heating the switch; the rest evaporated.

measured 16.1 g beans before RDT, taken out of the freezer.
used 3 spritzes of RDT and 4 shakes.
grounds landed at 16.0 g. after a grind at 1.8.0 on the timemore, a bit coarser than normal.

only after grind, realized that this guatemala hue. is a medium roast. suspected darker.

used 256.3 g water for brew, steaming, sizzling at the edge of pan. immersion ran 3:06, an accidental 36 second overhang.

groundsniff

wooden barn converted to store with coffee provisions. obvi, sorry.
perhaps the ceiling is corrugated tin, lol.
the coffee merchant smell. maybe burlap sacks.

imagination fails to swish the half-court word shot.

the “pipeline experience:” this improvised term
for what happens to the morning brain when a nose
enters the catchment of the grinder and is
transported to the coffee dimension.

observe

listen

“khazan” from compilation lahze didar, behdad babaj, parviz meshkatian, mohssen kasirossafar:

taste

first sip surprising, fresh.
second there’s a gasp notch,
smooth chocolate. true
partnership: bitter’s acidity
shimmering

richness; chugs
electrolyte water
leveling the palete.

first time guatemala’s aftertaste
stepped into the foreground.
back tongue cupping spotlights
a sweet, sour rhymeshot/echo.

nothing pierces anything
here. sideways glance at grape?

listen

haunted by the title song, lahze didar.

sounds like phrygian on “a,” but sumptuous microtonality emerges in the ornamentation and elsewhere, and then some lower melodic starting on e♮. yum yum.

recently was introduced to the concept of microtonality in pulse, and that has now informed the experience of this piece. so many things going on that cannot appropriately be called rubato.

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