Brewing a Cup of Finca Los Cenizos Washed Lot 140 from Blendin Coffee Club

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I paid $38 for 100 grams of Finca Los Cenizos Washed Lot 140, and I’m pleased that Blendin Coffee Club no longer scrubs the web page of coffees once they are out of stock. This is a washed Geisha from Panama. At $38 for 100 grams that means each cup is $10 or $11, which is a perfectly reasonable price.

The beans smell berry good. They are easier to grind than other Geishas, but still a bit stiff in the old Comandante. Blendin says to use 21 Clix, but you’d be crazy to grind finer than 25 Clix with any bean.

It is absolutely essential to sift your grind when making pour-over. If you learn one thing from any of my dozens? of coffee posts, it’s that you cannot include any fine grounds (less than 800 microns) when you are making coffee. You want it to be clean and bright with light mouthfeel, and if you include fines they are going to over-extract and make the coffee muddy and oily and strong. Yuck!

Do you even sift, brah? That’s what perfectly consistent grind looks like below. #Shtudy.

28 grams of beans will yield 20 grams of perfect grind, which is the correct amount for a 10 ounce cup of coffee. Same recipe every time. 15:1. 50 ml of pour to bloom, add 100 ml to 150 ml, let it drain, finally add 150 ml to get 300 ml total, it should drain completely by the three minute mark.

Look at that stunning color! Only possible when you filter the fines.