BLACK COTTAGE – Barista Reserve (Roast: Dark-Medium ❹+⅔ ) 🌱New Crop🌱
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ROAST LEVEL: Dark-Medium(❹+⅔)
ROASTED COLOR: #43(Agtron)
WEIGHT LOSS: 16.5%
Black Cottage Blend is specifically roasted for strong coffee lovers. Black Cottage uses the same origins and blend ratios as the Lonely Track blend, but has been roasted longer in the development phase to lower acidity and to intensify sweetness and sugar browning flavour notes. Black Cottage is designed primarily for espresso, but you can also enjoy it as a darker plunger.
NOTES / BODY: Deep – Bold – Complex – Chocolatey
IN THE CUP: Bitter Sweet, Chocolate, Nutty, Spicy, Heavy-Syrupy Body
FLAVOUR: Scorched Almonds, Malt Biscuit, Stone Fruit, Tropical Fruit, Dark Chocolate, Raisin, Prune
Description
Roasted Every Wednesday and Thursday
This coffee is Dark-Medium Roast Espresso Blend enjoyed strong coffee lovers. This is our most complex in terms of blend and contains a range of origins, varietals, processing methods. Intensify sweetness, lower acidity and sugar browning texture were all agreed upon. And of course, a blend that black and white coffee drinkers could happily and equally appreciate.
Featuring of Coffees from
*A Group: Guatemala, Colombia, Tanzania or Kenya + *B Group: Brazil, Ethiopia or El Salvador
- Origin / Region : *A Group: Guatemala Huehuetenango, Colombia Medellin, Tanzania Mbinga *B Group: Brazil Eastern
Minas Gerais, Ethiopia Sidamo - Farmer: Small-holder Farmers
- Crop: 2024
- Processing: *A Group: Washed, Washed, Washed *B Group: Washed, Natural and sun-dried
- Roasting Profile: Espresso / Plunger
- Flavour of Guatemala: Dark Chocolate, Caramel, Nutty, Apricot, Tropical Fruit
- Flavour of Colombia: Milk Chocolate, Nut, Apricot, Smooth Round Body, Bright Acidity.
- Flavour of Tanzania: Green Grape, Vanilla, Stone Fruit, Citrus, Cocoa, Chocolate Biscuit
- Flavour of Brazil: Chocolate, Toffee, Caramel, Almond, Bright Acidity, Med-Heavy Body
- Flavour of Ethiopia: Floral, Blackcurrant, Plum
For a Lucas Brew Recipe – try this.
Black
- Dose: 18g
- Brew weight: 40g
- Brew time: 25-30 seconds
White
- Dose: 18.5g
- Brew weight: 22-27g
- Brew time: 25-30 seconds
For Americano lovers.
- HOT: Hot water 200g + Espresso 36g
- ICED: Water 130g + Espresso 36g + Ice
FILTER COFFEE BREW GUIDE
Brewing Ratios – 1:17 (SCAA’s Golden Ratio)
Water | 250ml | 500ml | 750ml | 1L | 1.25L | 2L |
Coffee | 15g | 30g | 45g | 60g | 90g | 120g |
- AeroPress: 14g Coffee – 200g Water(96’C) – Brew Time: 2 mins
- Hario V60: 18g Coffee – 300g Water(94’C) – Brew Time: 2:30-3 mins
- Plunger: 20g Coffee – 330g Water(96’C) – Brew Time: 5 mins
Grind Settings
Fine | Like Flour, best suited for Espresso and Stovetop |
Medium | Like Table Salt, generally suited to Paper Filters – AeroPress and V60 |
Coarse | Like Raw Sugar, generally suited to Mesh Filters – Plunger |
- Tips: Grind finer if the coffee tastes too acidic – Grind coarser if it is too bitter
Lucas Coffee’s Roast Level
Roast Level | Discharged Bean Temperature | Point of Roasting Phase | In the Cup |
Medium-Light |
201’C – 204’C |
Last Stage of 1st Crack |
Acidic, Winey, Sweet, Juicy, Floral, Fruity Aroma, Light Body |
Medium |
205’C – 210’C |
Within 1 minute after 1st Crack finished |
Soft Caramel, Ripe Fruit, Characteristics can be well preserved. Light-Medium Body |
Medium-Dark / Dark-Medium |
211’C – 214’C |
Between 1 and 2 minutes after 1st Crack finished, just before 2nd Crack begins |
Moderate Acidity, Sweet and Mellow Caramels, Balanced Medium Body |
Dark |
215’C – 218’C |
Between just after 2nd Crack begins and Early moments of 2nd Crack |
Bitter Sweet, Chocolate, Nutty, Spicy, Heavy-Syrupy Body |
Vienna |
220’C |
Middle of 2nd Crack |
More Bitter Sweet, Caramel, Acidity Muted, Smoky, Light Surface Oil, Heavy Body |
* We find our Espresso Coffee tastes best from the 5th day to 2 weeks after roasting.