Prelude Blend

BALANCED AND JUICY WITH NOTES OF COFFEE CAKE, ORANGE MARMALADE, AND TOFFEE

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Size 8oz // 227g 12oz // 340g 5LB

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This coffee is built to have more fruit in their hot cup. The blend is a 60/40 mix of a washed coffee from Latin America and a natural process coffee from Eastern Africa. It is very versatile across brewing methods, and if you are wanting a cold brew with less fruit, then Prelude is your jam.

Why the name Prelude?

This blend is a nod to music - specifically a video game track - and serves as a touch point alongside our other blends to experience our style of roasting. We believe coffee blends serve as creative expression alongside our single origin counterparts. They get created with the change of seasons, collaborations, nostalgia, and just fun, quirky ideas.

Or maybe we don't think too hard about it. A prelude can just be your first cup of coffee to kick off the day.

Brewing ratios for drip and cold brew

Brewing ratios are the base for coffee brewing recipes. It's a way to make sure coffee brews to the strength we enjoy it!

For example, 1:15 would mean one gram of coffee to 15 grams of water and would make for a heavier cup of coffee. Increasing this to 1:20 would mean a more tea like brew.

Adjust these ratios to taste on any coffee, but we have a

Pour over, drip brews, and other paper filter methods

1 : 17 for our light and light-medium roasts
1 : 18 for our medium and medium-dark roast levels
Grind size fine-medium - or - similar to beach sand

Cold Brew Concentrate

1 : 4.6
Grind size as coarse as your grinder goes
A french press recipe with ratio above would be 170g coffee to 793g water.
Steep in cold water in fridge for 12-14 hours
Cut 50/50 with water or to taste for diluted brew.

How long should I wait after the roast date to use?

Coffee is off gassing from the time it is roasted. Brewing coffee that is too fresh is difficult to extract because CO2 will repel water and make it hard to extract what makes coffee tastes great!

Paper filter or full immersion brew method (ie. pour over, brew pot, french press)

At least 3 days.

When you go to pour hot water over your coffee grounds you see the coffee 'bloom' or bubble up. Depending on your brew method, this can be a way to open the coffee up for continued brewing.

Espresso

At least 5-7 days.

Espresso is a highly concentrated and pressurized brewing method. CO2 has nowhere to go so it's best to let the coffee release this naturally past the roast date.