Potential new Yemen bean supplier

Potential new Yemen bean supplier

Receiving a new batch of green beans is incredibly exciting...

If you've been following my blog for a little while, you'll know that I love the history of coffee and therefore am very enthusiastic about coffee from Yemen and Ethiopia.  This morning I received some samples from a potential new Yemen coffee provider.  Yemen is war-torn and it's so difficult to source beans.  When I do find those beans though, they are so interesting and flavoursome with an earthy almost savoury character which I find irresistible.  I'll let you know what I think about these four different samples very soon.

On an entirely different note you may recall a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago about portafilter depth and aspect ratio.  Here's a link:

PORTAFILTER DEPTH BLOG POST

I'm a little crazy and moving to the largest 25 g VST portafilter basket wasn't as extreme as I need to go.  So I purchased a 28 g Pullman portafilter... just to see.

Well I can confirm that there is such a thing as negative marginal return (the next step beyond diminishing marginal return!).  I definitely preferred the VST to the larger Pullman and it was good to satisfy my curiosity on this.

Hope you've enjoyed a fabulous coffee some time this morning!

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