Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Virtual SA: Guatemala...Coffee...Coffee..and More Coffee

 

This is why the whole place smells like a great coffee shoppe today!

Guatemalan Coffee from Antigua.

Said to be the second best coffee in the world...and that encompasses a LOT of coffee.

Start with the green coffee beans...you can buy them here...

https://www.gilliescoffee.com/green-coffee-guatemala-antigua

and roast them yourself.

It only requires a skillet (...I used iron...) and a metal whisk...and a really good exhaust fan on your range.

Tutorial

https://youtu.be/cEbMNpKqWL0

At around 10 minutes you will have first crack and should have a light roast.

A few more minutes and you will have a medium roast, which is how I like mine.

Longer and you will hear a second crack  and your beans will be darkly roasted.

Let them cool...fresh roasted coffee is hot.

At this point it will be obvious why you need a good exhaust fan...and your entire house will smell amazing.

After cooling, scoop a small amount into a coffee grinder...electric is fine.

Grind to your specifications and you can use this is a coffee-maker...or a pour-over ( which I find vastly superior).

There you have it.

Quite possibly the best cup of coffee you've ever tasted!






And we will finish Guatemala soon with 

The Volcano Hike

A two day and overnight trek up the side of a live volcano!

(...with "Beans"...remember "Beans"???)

Until then....