Coffee Recommendations

The following list of coffees come recommended from multiple members of the discord. We have tried to provide some starting parameters as a baseline for each bean where we have the data. Some of these coffees are going to be easy extractions and others are going to require some more barista skill. We have mostly included blends in this list because they are often in stock year round and keeping track of single origin coffees as they rotate stock would be difficult. If you have suggestions for this list please let someone in the Cafe Regular, Connoisseur or Staff roles know.

A note on Extraction Forgiveness: These are estimates based on our experiences with these coffees. a 1 is going to be very forgiving and beginner friendly. A 2 is going to be a little bit trickier to extract well but should still get good results fairly quickly. 3 and above is starting to get into light roasts and your parameters and puck prep is going to start becoming more important. As time goes on your taste may also evolve, and you could consider exploring while keeping certain things consistent from one bag to the next - for example, if you like a medium Yirgacheffe, try it light roasted. Or explore various roast profiles from the same roaster. Or start playing with the ratios and temperatures more.

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Roaster	Bean	Roast Level	Espresso Ratio	Filter Ratio	Temperature	Good for Milk Drinks	Extraction Forgiveness (1:Forgiving – 5:Hold my Portafilter)	Notes
Cafe Lusso	GMC	Medium/Medium-Dark	1:2		Hot	Yes	1
Ruby Roasters	Creamery Blend	Medium	1:2		Normal	Yes	2
Proud Mary	Ghost Rider	Light	1:2.5		Super Hot		3	Let this age for 10-14 days off roast
Proud Mary	Honeysuckle	Light	1:2.5		Super Hot		3	Let this age for 10-14 days off roast - out of stock as of 1/23
Onyx	Monarch	Light-Medium	1:3			Yes	2
Stumptown	Holler Mountain	Medium	1:2		Normal	Yes	1
Mother Tongue	Bittersweet	Medium-Dark	1:2		Normal	Yes
Mother Tongue	Mugshots	Medium	1:2-1:2.5		Normal	Yes
Black and White	The Classic	Medium-Dark			Normal	Yes	2
Black and White	The Natural	Medium			Normal	Yes	2
Black and White	The Original	Medium-Light			Hot		2
Kurasu	Aki Urara	Medium-Light		1:17	Hot		1
Kurasu	House Blend Light	Medium-Light		1:16	Hot		2
Tiong Hoe	Smoky Quartz	Medium-Dark	1:2		Normal		1	Age at least a week or two
Mother Tongue	Banko Gotti	Medium	1:2.5	36:500 (Hoff FP)	Hot		2	great from roast, blueberry bomb
Mother Tongue	Eyasu Worasag	Medium	1:2.5		Hot			great from roast