1:15 · 225 ml
KIAMBU AA
Home Roast · Kenya
Washed · Light
Tasting notes: Plum · Limes · Berry · Caramel
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- 0:00Bloom45 ml of water · 94 °C · wait 44 s, swirl45 ml+45 ml
- 0:59Pour 1Circles · 91 °C · wait 22 s100 ml+55 ml
- 1:39Pour 2Circles · 91 °C · 3.1 ml/s · wait 22 s150 ml+50 ml
- 2:17Pour 3Circles · 91 °C · 3.1 ml/s · wait 22 s195 ml+45 ml
- 2:54Pour 4Circles · 91 °C · let it drain225 ml+30 ml
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Why this recipe
KIAMBU AA · Home Roast
Grind 38 · 94 °C · 44 s · 3:00–4:20
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 dense bean, slow to give up flavour, so it is set to draw out its sweetness.
The decisions
Fine table salt. Dense beans give up flavour slowly, so it's set a little finer.
Dial in your grinder →94 °C for the bloom, 91 °C after. Heat opens the grounds early; stepping down keeps the finish sweet, not bitter.
45 ml of water, then a 44-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.
Earlier recipes for similar beans helped set these numbers.
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