Jubilee Coffee and Roaster, Meguro

Jubilee Coffee Roaster is a little coffee store about a 10 minute walk from Meguro station. It’s located directly across the road from Meguro’s Institute for Nature Study, so it was very convenient to be able to visit both of these places in one trip. The store stocks about 12 beans that they roast on site - ranging from medium to dark roasts. For 200g of a single origin bean, it’ll cost you about 2400 yen. Not the cheapest you can get in Tokyo, but an alright price. You’re free to ponder your bean selection as they have jars with ground up beans that you can sniff as well. This time, I went for their Costa Rica bean at a high roast (“high” apparently sits between medium and dark). If you want to attempt to read the katakana When brewing it at home, I first ground it at my regular setting (15 clicks) and went for 93°C. I found that to be a touch sour and settled on 96°C and 14 clicks. I wasn’t blown away, but I’d rate it as a pretty decent cup of coffee. The list of all the beans…