Decoding the Bag: Single Origin vs. Coffee Blends


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Jun 01 2019 12 mins  

From Cape Town, South Africa, we’re featuring the ridiculously delicious Black Honey Blend coffee of Truth Coffee Roasting (twice featured as one of the worlds best coffee shops by The Telegraph).


This is the first coffee blend we’ve featured, and boy is it a special one! It showcases an excellent washed-process heirloom coffee from Ethiopia Yurgacheffe that brews beautifully alongside a honey-process Pacas from El Salvador Comasagua. If you’re able to get your hands on a bag for this episode, I highly recommend you brew it in an Aeropress—a recipe I got directly from one of their talented roasters!


Inverted Aeropress:


18g Coffee


210g Water @80°C (176°F)


Bloom: 50g for 30 seconds


Begin extraction at 03:30


Total time: 04:00 Minutes


Being that this is our first coffee blend on the show, we’re diving into what a coffee blend is and how it compares to single origin coffee, which has accounted for all of our other featured coffees thus far. Tune in!


P.S. We’re taking a week off from the podcast to review our first five episodes and get ready for more to come. We hope you don't’ miss us too much!


Sources:


Post Truth vs. Truth Coffee


Everything You Need to Know About Single Origin Coffees


A Roasters Guide to Creating Coffee Blends


Traditional Blend Names


Blends vs. Single Origin Coffee