Weeknotes #4, August 10–16

What brought me joy New coffee! I’ve had this coffee resting for 4 weeks and it’s finally ready to be opened! Opening a new bag of coffee is always exciting. I’m a few brews in and I’ve found that I prefer it brewed with the TORCH Mountain Dripper over V60 because it gets me a bit more acidity. The fermentation notes are quite strong with this one and I’m not 100% loving it so far, though it’s highly possible that I just need to make some adjustments with my brewing. I do wonder if the coffee grinder I use, 1ZPRESSO ZP6, is not the best for this coffee. This high-end grinder specializes in bringing the most clarity to your brews and is notorious for making unpleasant flavours in more processed beans too pronounced. And this brings me to the next thing that brought me joy— Ordered a new coffee grinder (1ZPRESSO K-Ultra)! Since discovering that different coffee grinders can give you different flavour profiles in your brews earlier this year, I’ve been mulling over getting an end-game…