$ beanlog 2026-10-13

04:10bean log 2026-10-13

first cracked the puff

October grinds 2026: handwritten title over a black page with climbing orange roses

new bag

new bag cracking: handwritten notes beside photos of the white SEY bag with its Mbature Family Lot #2 sticker and the SEY box with its yellow coffee card

New bag cracking:
Mbature
Family
Kamavindi
Estate Lot #2
Kenya

(new bag)

light roast
from sey

a bestowment
from the
twinkling
eye of
the unicorn

SEY coffee card for Mbature Family, Kamavindi Estate Lot #2, with processing, family history, and SL* variety notes, framed by pencil-drawn letters

first cracked the puff

first cracked the puff: photo of the opened bag of beans, handwritten aroma notes, and the inside of the SEY box printed with YES

Listening to Brooklyn Rider Almanac, 0410 ET. The cello soars
in the sweet cream aroma of these beautiful beans, a crescent
that dives to meet anticipation. Belief can be the antecedent of experience.

is SEY backwards for
YES?
the answer isn’t no.

Aroma of honey,
issues of wood,
shadows of breeze,
hand drills of
fair linen, lavender
lines of asters.

grind & brew

handwritten brew notes with unicorn comments on the bean bag sniff and grind sniff, photos of whole beans and grounds in the filter, and a poem in brown ink

25.1 g beans
1.9.0 on timemore
3 spritzes RDT

hardest grind!
switched hands.

bean bag sniff

brew

purified water
75 g → 295 g → 403 g
20 sec · 65 sec · 3:20

immersion until 4 min 15 sec → Hario Switch
not intentional! water just
evaporated during preparation

draw-down
until 5 min 45 sec.

Patagonia / No Dams / Ferris mug
sipped with lid this time.

grind sniff

reflection

peel the gilded
berry of guilt.
go grind gratitude,
candy its density,
see the autumn
transform into wind.

sweet round hips
of sour round sun
peeking into books’
ancient sheafs,
dissecting the
seed body anatomy,
flavor heredity.

over her mountain
shoulder glance,
the shade in
bird song weaves
tesseractional
riposte to
the grinder’s
dark maw.

the whole embrace
whiffs of generosity,
while fastens are
unhooked, the milk
pours into the forest
in an inexorable flow
white rivers
seeking dark
cavern comfort.

[cup/1 · tuesday · method/easy-immersion · water/purified · kenya · listening/brooklyn-rider · companion/unicorn]

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