{"id":2592,"date":"2017-05-01T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T17:48:35","slug":"review-quills-coffee-blacksmith-espresso-louisville-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Review: Quills Coffee Blacksmith Espresso (Louisville, Kentucky)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quills is a new company to me, but I was absolutely floored by the amazing flavors in their Ecuador La Papaya<\/a> (as you might have seen me raving about\u00a0a couple of weeks ago). I ordered this bag of their Blacksmith espresso blend at the same time, but life kind of got in the way and I wasn’t able to do a full battery of testing on the beans in my normal time frame (around 7-14 days post-roast). This might have actually worked out though, as the beans proved to have a useful life for longer than I anticipated. Good job, Quills. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Whole bean: Fresh scent, with notes of cocoa and nuts and a hint of red cherry.<\/p>\n

Espresso: I started pulling shots of this bean 10 days post-roast, and did another series of shots at 20 days post-roast. Throughout the first run of shots, the flavor was really bright and verging on sour,\u00a0but I found that this bean benefited from higher temperatures (for my taste, anyway). The best shot to my palate tasted mostly of bittersweet chocolate, but still had a slight punchiness and acidity to it to keep things lively. There was plenty of crema throughout both tastings.<\/p>\n

Favorite parameters for this espresso: 206 degrees F, 19 grams in, 40 grams out at a 25 second extraction time.<\/p>\n

With milk: Shutterbug liked the latte I made for him, though to be honest, I think he was inclined to like just about anything I gave him after a really nasty surprise with a bag of Peet’s coffee I brought home (that review will be posted next week).<\/p>\n

AeroPress: This was a bit disappointing. The coffee brewed this way tasted strangely watered down, even though I was drinking it as a concentrate. Stick to brewing this as true espresso – it tastes hollow and bland in this method.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: This espresso benefits from high temperatures if you’re looking to get rich, chocolaty flavor with a good balance of acidity.<\/p>\n

From the roaster: cherry, honey, toasted almond<\/p>\n

Quills Coffee Blacksmith Espresso<\/a><\/p>\n

Review conducted at 10 days and 20 days post-roast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quills is a new company to me, but I was absolutely floored by the amazing flavors in their Ecuador La Papaya (as you might have seen me raving about\u00a0a couple of weeks ago). I ordered this bag of their Blacksmith espresso blend at the same time, but life kind of got in the way and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Quills' Blacksmith is their workhorse espresso, and it does its job admirably (with quite a long shelf life!).","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[157,8,3,154],"tags":[96,90,28,70,298],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tn_IMG_5832-e1491796722575.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2750,"url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=2750","url_meta":{"origin":2592,"position":0},"title":"Review: Cuv\u00e9e Coffee Guatemala Hunapu (Austin, Texas)","date":"August 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Cuv\u00e9e Coffee is regularly featured at my local Whole Foods market, but I don't buy it very often because\u00a0the beans aren't often on the shelf within two weeks of the roast date (which is a common situation when you buy coffee at retail outlets like markets). 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