1:15 · 225 ml
Guatemala Finca El Retiro
City Boy · Guatemala Finca El Retiro
Natural · Medium
Tasting notes: Peach · Strawberry · Plum
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- 0:00Bloom45 ml of water · 90 °C · wait 51 s, swirl45 ml+45 ml
- 1:05Pour 1Circles · 89 °C · wait 15 s, swirl100 ml+55 ml
- 1:37Pour 2Circles · 89 °C · 3.3 ml/s · wait 15 s, swirl150 ml+50 ml
- 2:07Pour 3Circles · 89 °C · 3.3 ml/s · wait 15 s, swirl195 ml+45 ml
- 2:36Pour 4Circles · 89 °C · 3.3 ml/s · let it drain225 ml+30 ml
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Why this recipe
Guatemala Finca El Retiro · City Boy
Grind 57 · 90 °C · 51 s · 3:30–4:30
Calculated by BrewMind's AI from this bean's altitude, process and roast, then checked against physical limits before you saw it.
Fruit and floral aromas fade when pushed too hard, so the recipe is set to keep them. It is a very dense bean, slow to give up flavour, so it is set to draw out its sweetness.
The decisions
Coarse sea salt. Naturals give up flavour fast, so it's set coarser; the dense bean pulls it back finer.
Dial in your grinder →90 °C for the bloom, 89 °C after. Heat opens the grounds early; stepping down keeps the finish sweet, not bitter.
45 ml of water, then a 51-second wait. Escaping gas pushes water away; waiting it out lets the pours that follow soak in evenly.
The Wave's flat bed needs one more pour to wet evenly. More, smaller pours stir the bed gently, for a cleaner, lighter cup.
45 → 100 → 150 → 195 → 225 ml
Circular pours wet the flat bed evenly.
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More pours than most in this group. Tuned to how this filter drains.