As much as I may like to imagine that my roasting skills are up there with the best, it usually only takes one or two shots of coffee roasted by one of Perth's better artisan roasters to bring my ego back in touch with reality.
I write this while drinking a flat white that has followed a ristretto and an espresso made with a recently tweaked blend from Fiori and it is so well rounded and full bodied as a blend that it is a good coffee to use as a benchmark for my own roasting.
You could ask (and some have) why I would bother roasting my own coffee when we have a good number of great Perth coffee roasters to choose from.
True enough I suppose, I don't NEED to roast coffee in order to have good coffee to drink, but I do need to roast it to continue learning about it.
As the saying goes - getting there is half the fun, and occasionally, when the stars align (or the beans align) and you hit a roast bang on the sweet spot it is a glorious thing. 500 grams of heaven that you roasted yourself - all to quickly gone but all the sweeter for the brevity of the pleasure.
Its probably why I like getting to try other people's coffee - how can I know what my roasts are really like in a qualitative sense unless I have something better to calibrate against?
So this weekend is a calibration weekend - an indulgence of someone else's work and some really really good beans.
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