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MarkB said:
When I used to roast my beans I found that letting them rest for a week before brewing allowed them to develop more complexity and improved overall taste. May want to try that.
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I made an esspresso with some freshly ground 3 day old roast this morning. The flavor is a little less flat but not necessarliy more complex. What I think is tripping me up is how the flavor profile seems less like a regular roased coffee and more like one that has been purposefully flavored. I have had some Jim Beam or Southern Comfort flavored coffee (the kind you get for christmas) and this leans really heavy in that direction only WAY less articficial. Fortunately I enjoy the taste but I think its a bit self limitting, I can see enjoying some occasionally but not as an everyday all day thing.
 
Spent the weekend drinking Kopi Luwak I had roasted last weekend. I've had these green beans for quite some time so they weren't really all that "fresh", but then again, how fresh can a bean collected from scat be. At least they were fresh roasted. @BarberDave may remember these beans because they are from the same bag I shared with him years ago. For anyone wondering if Kopi Luwak coffee is worth the price or the hype, my take is NO. I tried it as an expresso, a pour over and using the AeroPress (both strong and light). The result is pretty consistent...a decent coffee forward cup that is somehow a little milder in presentation kind of like a tea or maybe a cold brew (hmm, maybe I'll do a cold brew with some beans). For the most part I found the cup to be pretty similar to any other cup of home brew. I gave my sons and daughter in law some with our dessert as a blind test, they enjoyed the coffee but didn't feel it was stand out in any particular way. When told what they were drinking they went back to try to find something special to say but all agreed it was "just coffee". If I recall correctly @BarberDave shared a similar "it's good, it's smooth, it's like tea" kind of feeling.

A little disclaimer here, I don't posses the finest pallet and MOST things I eat, drink, smell or feel fall into one of two categories "I like it" or "I don't like it". Occasionally I find something the excites me enough to say I REALLY like it or disgusts me enough to require a more explicit expression of dislike.
 
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