Posted on 10 30 2011 @ 10:06 PM

Most of the time when Mike was here we worked on espresso blends, but he also gave us some insight on drip coffee blending and a system which I plan on using. He told us an important key to this process is to know what each individual coffee tastes like on its own. So, we started off roasting each coffee of interest with 2-4 different roast profiles in order to provide different flavor characteristics. Next, we set up a cupping to include all the different coffees and took notes on each. Then we start taking a spoon of this, a spoon of that, and a couple spoons of another to create a blend while continuously tweaking the blend until we like it. This process is great because it allows you to test many different blends and ratios all at once and give you immediate results.

Britt Peterson