I have been discovering the joy of mixing different types of whole bean coffees before preparing them in my French press. I find that as long as you don’t do something crazy like mix a very light roast with a very dark roast you can end up with a lot of extra depth and roundness to the flavor. Thoughts? Am I insane? A heretic??? Have you tried it?

  • cfi@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    This is what blends are. I often will add a touch of medium roast to a dark roast to dial back some of the harshness, or add a South American medium roast to an African single origin to round out the acidity

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      12 days ago

      Yep, exactly! Single origin is fun and all, but roasters know that blends make for a more consistently well rounded cup. Blending batches is even a thing between different roasts of the same bean. If you enjoy the taste, it’s always the right call!

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      10 days ago

      I just did the same - end of a batch and there wasn’t enough so I mixed some of the next for a medium-light + dark blend. Good if not great, and certainly interesting.

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    13 days ago

    I don’t do it but I’m not opposed to it personally as long as the beans are within reasonably close roast levels.

    I don’t understand how you can get good extraction with mixed beans of highly varied roast level; but if you can and enjoy the result then hell yeah; good on ya! Good coffee is life!

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    13 days ago

    I definitely do this sometimes for my morning pour over. If I have a boring dark roast, or a single origin that doesn’t have a ton of depth, I’ll substitute 10g of a light roast to brighten up the flavor profile. Some combos turn out to be amazing, though I usually still prefer a good quality single origin bean.

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    12 days ago

    No matter what you do, you can’t be as heretical as when I make cold brew just to microwave it later. This much is no big deal.