Blendin Coffee Club has started a premium monthly coffee subscription called “Pinnacle Coffee Subscription” priced at $40. I instantly signed up for this because I’m lazy and like a curated selection delivered to me without making any effort. I also subscribe to Proud Mary’s Deluxe subscription, priced at $39.

Blendin’s first coffee for its Pinnacle Coffee Subscription is a Geisha from Panama called Hachi Sutera #4.

The “sous-vide” processing of the coffee is described in the little card above.

Lovely beans and aroma… grinds like a Geisha for sure.

Do you even sift, bro?

Fines sifted out, only a perfectly consistent grind remains, 800+ micron grind only (1200 micron max). I now grind 20 grams of coffee which should yield 15 grams of perfect grind after sifting. This coffee ground a little finer in the Comandante C40 at 25 Clix, so I’ll just brew 215 ml instead of 225 ml.

Usual recipe, 15:1 water to coffee … 200 degree Fahrenheit water … bloom pour, second pour, third pour. Beautiful color.

You can instantly tell from the color in the cup that it’s a Geisha. Very clean mouth-feel, a lot of acidity (complex sour) on both sides of the tongue which diminishes quickly, coffee-forward for sure, not a tea-like Geisha. Since I’m not a fan of coffee, I prefer the Geishas that are super tea-like and only have a hint of coffee flavor at the end, the after-taste … those are the best Geishas in my opinion.

This is nice and clean and complex sour, but too coffee-forward for me.

On an end note, I now take the five grams of fines that I’m left with and add them to the top of the wet grinds and brew 300 milliliters worth of water through them to make a second cup of coffee which I put in a thermos.

The five grams of fines and 15 grams of spent wet bed make a perfectly fine 300 ml of coffee for the road.