Tag: workflow/baseline-hold

Context

Second cup, first pass at Guatemala.

Beans came from the freezer before grinding. Purified water again.

While loading grounds into the preheated cone, I paused to smell. Heat from the cone lifted everything upward and made it feel more immediate, almost amplified. 🦄 said it smelled darker than cup one this morning. That felt true.

Also notable: all 308 g of preheat water went into the Switch in one movement, leaving the kettle empty. One body of water, fully accounted for.

Brew Notes

Held grind at 1.8.3 to keep first-expression baseline clean.

RTT with three spritzes.

Dose came in a little low (15.7 g vs 16 g target). Brew water landed at 255.6 g against a 256 g target.

Bloom expansion was moderate. Surface tension held without aggressive bubbling. Drawdown stayed steady.

Spent bed again showed the same pattern as cup one: faint high-water mark around the perimeter, then a slide toward center with a slight wall cling before the interior cleared.

No obvious channel holes. More of a wash-to-center shape than a flat immersion bed.

Observe

Dry aroma from the heated cone read darker: cocoa, faint toasted sugar, less fruit-forward than earlier coffee.

Wet aroma was rounder and a little earthy.

First sip came in with softer acidity and a darker entry. Mid-palate leaned cocoa-first with muted fruit. Sweetness sat in brown-sugar territory rather than bright fruit. Bitterness stayed gentle and integrated. Body felt medium, slightly fuller than cup one. Finish was short cocoa.

There was an accidental 0.8 g inclusion of Mocha Java (roughly 5%). Small, but possibly enough to deepen the chocolate edge.

Grounds still showed small white flecks, which I have seen before in some Parable coffees and some Ruby coffees. Not universal. Possible chaff fragments or lighter inner material exposed by fracture.

Reflect

The darker smell profile matched both the visual read and the cup structure.

The repeated slide-to-center bed pattern across two different coffees now feels less bean-specific and more like something systematic in drawdown flow.

The 0.3 g dose miss likely mattered little by itself, but it belongs in the record.

A living “Current Recipe” note, preheat protocol, pour consolidation, grind baseline, agitation philosophy, feels like the right next move for separating technique drift from bean expression.

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