This is available locally from Murky Coffee. Besides being relatively easy to work with, it’s what they use in house. This gives me a decent way to benchmark my equipment and technique against the best I can find around here. The batch I got was roasted 9/2. The first shot of the morning was one for the sink, but the second was really, really sweet.

What’s a little mystifying to me is that I liked my shot slightly better than the same shot at Murky yesterday. I have no explanation for this. It’s the same coffee. Their machine is much better. Their grinder is better. Anyone in that shop has much more trained, more consistent technique than I do. But somehow this morning’s shot was more to my taste than yesterday’s. Go figure. (To be clear, just in case this turns up in search results or something… theirs was excellent. Mine today just suited my palate a bit better and I’m not sure why.)