Unsurprisingly I’ve been using the method from the James Hoffmann video. Still playing around with grind size but the coffee it’s made has been tasty so far.
My go to for home, work and travelling is an Aeropress. I normally switch to a cafetiere for December (and my coffee advent calendar) but I’m not the biggest fan of metal filtered coffee (or the cleanup)
I could see the Clever replacing the cafetiere even though it’s a little bit bigger. Will have to see whether it becomes my daily driver.
Having done the tasting I can firmly say they all taste like coffee. The caff tasted more like coffee but I couldn’t discern a difference between the decaf processes.
I don’t know if this is a success or that I’m a philistine.
During the tasting I intensely disliked the Swiss Water processed decaf because of a weird aftertaste. The other two were fine but not quite nice as the caffeinated.
Brewed using my dripper it wasn’t quite as bad.
Couldn’t really tell you anything about their acidity, sweetness or body.
that’s about what I thought. I could pick out the regular and the swiss water, the other two were the same to me.
In other coffee news, our coffee grinder (a Fellow Ode, in the just post kickstarter variation) stopped working this morning. I hoped it was just jammed up, and would reset itself. I took the burr set out and cleaned it out. There was an impressive amount of coffee that got past the burrs and into the adjusting mechanism, but it was still dead as a doornail.
I found a fair amount of discussion about the failure, which seems to be reasonably common. The machine gets jammed (which has happened before.), and before the fancy logic controller can detect that and shut it off, it blows a fuse. The fuse, of course, isn’t intended to be replaced and is soldered to the PCB, because the PLC is supposed to shut the motor off when it stalls. I verified my fuse is blown, and have ordered a replacement (and nine spares, because that’s how you can buy things). We’ll see if that’s the only problem, or if the fuse blew because of another fault…
Fuse replaced, machine grinds. Yay.
Tonight, elderflower wine that my wife made in 2013.
I think that qualifies as evenelderflower wine.
How was it? And was the advance notice of what you were planning to drink your way of letting yourself know what had led to the blackout?
Not so much advance warning as sprung on me by my wife about 8.30 last night. And very fine indeed.
Love elderflower wine. And elderberry wine for that matter. I used to make them both with my dad when I was younger.
Now that I’ve kinda got into brewing as a hobby myself, I keep meaning to make them but never get round to collecting the necessary stuff!
is elderflower wine often aged?
Generally not deliberately! As with any wine one rolls the dice—perhaps more than most wines, because the conditions of making may vary from bottle to bottle.
Rolling Dice with Wine – combining roleplaying convention with wine tasting?
I would come to that
