Ethiopia Sidamo Espresso Blend (77 hours roasted)

 

In the hopper, 100% popcorn popper roasted (PPR) beans. Consisting of Ethiopia Sidamo- 50% city roast, 30% full city roast and 20% light Vienna roasted. What i feel about the blend, for a wet-processed (washed) Ethiopian coffee, it's known for it's rich, full body (mouthfeel), sweet and complex flavor, medium acidity, floral aroma, a bright and soft finish. The blend  is well-balanced with notes of chocolate and often exhibits tones of spice.

 

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Want to know how to prepare great tasting gourmet specialty coffee at home? A friend and a mentor, Mohammad Suhaimi aka Suhaimie was crowned Starbucks Coffee Ambassador 2007. He has been a Barista and trainer since 1999. Prior to joining Cuppa Choice, he was working as a Barista at Starbucks for nine good years till he joined CuppaChoice in 2007 as a Business Development Executive and Barista Trainer before becoming an Operations Manager 2009. Soon after he became the Director of CuppaChoice in early 2010.His goals and visions for the company transformed CuppaChoice into the preferred brand for best coffees.
You can catch him on Saturday morning at Temple Street sharing his passion about coffee. He competed in Singapore National Barista Competition (SNBC). Sadly,did not do so well in 2009. Sky rocketed in 2010 and clinched  2nd-runner up for the main and latte art competition. He retained his 2nd runner-up position in 2011.
Suhaimie is the creator of  I AM A BARISTA IN SINGAPORE- Coffee Blog facebook group page and
check out his blog, http://iamabarista.blogspot.com/. Do you know that he has his very own coffee bar at home? Coffee is in his blood. He really knows is coffee. Don't you think so?

The green bean room where it all happens. 

 

 The Artisan Roaster

55 hours young Ethiopia Sidamo

Sidamo Coffee is from the southern highlands of Ethiopia. The region is one of Ethiopia's major coffee bean growing areas, and includes within it the Yigacheffe valley, which has it's own distinctive coffees. Sidamo Coffee Beans have pleasant tangy flavour with a deep, rich, earthy, syrupy and chocolaty body and finish.

I love Ethiopian coffees.

This coffee works fantastically well in all brewing equipment, including espresso, paper / metal filter brewers and dripper. It's so versatile

 

This cup in particular gave me lots of rich earthy notes and cocoa flavours, syrupy body and finish. It reminded me of biting off a chunk of Hershey's dark chocolate bar. 

Today's roast, Ethiopia Sidamo

One of the world's very top premium gourmet coffees, Ethiopian Coffee is respected for its vibrant, winey acidity along with a distinct pungent wildness and complexity. The coffees of southern Ethiopia are generally wet processed.
Ethiopian Sidamo Coffee is a washed (wet-processed) coffee respected for its sweet complexity and floral aroma along with a very muted acidity yet a very full and rich body with tones of chocolate, wine and spice. The aftertaste is soft and bright.

 

Four small batches of Ethiopia Sidamo to be roasted to different roast level. 

The popper which made it happen yaw...

First two batches was roasted till city plus roast, up to 6 mins. Would like to achieve the sweet, lemony flavour, 

Second batch, I roasted it to full city. Time taken 7 mins. Achieving a full-bodied cup of coffee yet with the citrusy notes.

Last batch, tried something deliberate, Vienna roast. Trying to achieve hints of burnt sugar and earth, wild berries and clean floral finish.

The beans are being cured right now. I will be  tasting of the coffees on day 3, which is this coming Saturday ;7 May. They will be prepared via dripper and i will blend part of the beans into an espresso blend.

Modifying my popcorn roaster

I've bought this popcorn popper for about a year already. I used it to roast very small batches of beans, sufficient for an 8 cup french press.
Yesterday, i drilled many little holes to the cover. They say it helps to provide better ventilation for the hot air to exit and prevent the popper from overheating (popcorn seeds takes about 45-90 secs whereas green bean would take up to 6-7 mins). I also included a thermometer to record the temperature of the beans during a minute interval.
I will be trying this modified gadget on the next weekend perhaps.