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I have some coffee on order that is supposed to be delivered by Fastway. They have had the package for 4 days, as of yesterday. Their latest tracking:

"We're trying to deliver this parcel but we have encountered an operational delay."

What does trying mean? They certainly didn't try at my house.

I was wrong about this one .

It was too fresh at the start , lemon/citrus so intense overwhelmed everything else , few days after definitely got better , could feel more complexity , I think I could recommend this :)

ps. What’s up with WCC recipes , yield in ml instead of grams ?

A ml of coffee yield not 1 gram though.

Could be anything , don't you know yourself, half of shot could be creama which takes a lot volume but weight nothing.

No one measures shot by volume anymore it all grams now.

-edit Just spotted the Coffee Bargain thread, can't delete this comment.... grrr

deffo not worth the price, but if you can buy one then do it at least once imo

it's like any top end product that rich people can afford, sometimes scarcity is the value

have you ever drank a geisha? no......would you like to? yep.....and therein is the cost

Artessa used to do free delivery €30 and over, it’s up to €40 now. I’d recommend Fusion, plus I got the Columbia Narino Finca grinded for cafetière and it was really nice.

must actually put in an order before Xmas cut off delivery date

what irish roasters have geishas at the moment?

Bell Lane swapped a bag from our 1kg subscription with a bag of their single origin Christmas coffee along with a few chocolates and a 15% off code, nice touch. I was meaning to get a Christmas coffee from somewhere but never got around to it! :)

I was given a v60 for Christmas and have been figuring it out. I got three bags of beans from Soma after a few practice runs with some dark roast beans.

The Honduran Finca Belen is a coffee I can't quite figure out. It's all in mouthfeel and acidity, some rounded strength to it all depending on where you taste in your mouth. It reminds me of Beamish in a lot of ways, with some botanicals to it, but this is all on mouthfeel. Their description of peach is probably accurate in taste but it's a little more tangy than that. It's been my go to when I want a solid cup.

The Ethopian Bale Mountain Washed is interesting but probably my least favourite. The lime they say is in it really comes through, maybe too much. I found, however, using 16gm of coffee instead of 18gm to 300mg of water really made me work on identifying notes. A lot of the same beans natural flavours came through that way, somehow.

The Costa Rican Finca Licho is my first natural coffee and will definitely get me seeking out more natural processed. My first cup it had a lot of liquor to it. It was lovely. It's a real discovery every time I have it and it's probably the fastest I drink any of the three beans.

I'm happily cycling through the three bags on my v60 and which I'll go for will depend on my mood because they're all really distinct coffees that definitely suit different notions you'd get into your head. This is great, because it's exactly what I asked the guy in the café for to showcase the range of specialty coffees available for my first go-round.

Is freezing the best way to keep beans fresh if Im not gonna use them in the next couple of weeks? And if so, is it OK to freeze in the bag? Have a few 250g bags I want to keep fresh

Sound. Their unopened 250g bags. Likely will be a couple weeks before I get to open them so I'll pop them in the freezer.

I'm thinking about trying single origin but it seems a lot of them are geared towards filter coffees, is that a big deal?

I'll expose myself as a philistine with this question I reckon, but if here goes anyway.....I presume most people on this thread don't drink milky drinks?

I'm a flat white guy, wondering if people who drink milky drinks would bother with the higher end beans? I presume there's decreasing returns on spend, and a solid fresh bean would do the trick for most drinking flat whites.

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