Recipe

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This recipe maximizes aroma, brightness, and clarity at the expense of sweetness and body. Adapted from The Picky Chemist’s geisha recipe, and similar to Apollon’s Gold recipe. Use for high aroma beans where high EY isn’t needed, e.g. processed geisha. Grind 3.5-4.

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50-100-62.5 no agitation. Finish at 1:30. 45s wait after second pour.

Last drops neutral.

Overall not too sure what to make of this one. It’s very delicate and floral-forwards. Clarity doesn’t taste super high. The actual taste itself is kind of a muddy mix of mild sweetness and mild acidity; hard to discern what’s going on. The drawdown was quite a bit slower than the TPC brew so maybe going coarser will help. But unlike the TPC this is lower in clarity while also being lower in intensity. From the description this is meant to be more delicate anyways, but it’s just okay to me. High 6 I guess. Probably wouldn’t buy a whole bag of this. Note that I’m comparing this against incredible coffees — in a vacuum this is really good. Very expensive though.

Would probably go coarser by a bit?

Taste

• Aroma — hay-like in brew. Quite floral in cup. Dark purple flowers? Mixed with berry.
• Flavor — much less sweet and more delicate than expected. This tastes more like a standard washed CM. This is probably the most delicate of the Savage beans I’ve had so far which is a surprise. Very floral. Slight savoriness and just a hint of funk as it cools.
• Aftertaste — slight lingering tartness. Red berry like.
• Acidity — mild, more tart on back end. Lemony and berry like.
• Sweetness — moderate. Fairly high overall but doesn’t give candy vibes.
• Body — light.