Dose: 20g

Ratio: 1:17

Grind: Significantly Finer than Neutral

Lab Grind: 4.5 EK43 Drip Burrs

Brew Time: 2:45

TDS: 1.30%

Extraction: 19.5%

Sensory Description:

Well-dialed cups of La Guachoca have a nice creamy texture and reminded me of soft citrus flavors like orange, tangerine, and clementine. This combination of texture and sweet citrus results in a pleasant orange creamsicle-like flavor. There’s also an abundance of sugar browning flavors and sweet nuts like cola, date sugar, pecan, and cashew. Overall, you can expect a medium-heavy bodied coffee with a lot of sweetness and subtle citrus.

Dial Notes:

Under-extraction was pretty easy to do on this coffee, as it requires a pretty fine grind setting compared to most. These cups missed the sweetness and texture of better-dialed brews, resulting in recognizable tasting notes that just felt a little lacking. It reminded me of orange peel and cocoa, rather than their sweeter counterparts. Most of the flavor was in the front, leaving a somewhat muted aftertaste. If you encounter cups like this, try a finer grind setting on the next brew.

Over-extraction was actually somewhat difficult to achieve, requiring grind settings much finer than usual. Most of the cashew/pecan flavor shifted to the front, which made the cups lose a lot of the citrus notes and complexity of better brews. There was also a slightly drying and bitter aftertaste like dark chocolate and walnuts. In this instance, I would grind coarser for the next cup.

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Significantly Coarser than Neutral
Brew Time: 2:55
TDS: 1.36%
Extraction: 20.2%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Neutral
Brew Time: 2:50
TDS: 1.36%
Extraction: 20.1%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 3:00
TDS: 1.32%
Extraction: 19.7%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 3:15
TDS: 1.38
Extraction: 20.5%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Slightly Coarser than Neutral
Brew Time: 3:01
TDS: 1.31%
Extraction: 19.4%

Dose: 21g
Ratio: 1:16.2
Grind: Slightly Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 2:58
TDS: 1.41%
Extraction: 19.6%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Slightly Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 3:08
TDS: 1.34%
Extraction: 19.8%

Dose: 20g
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Significantly Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 2:37
TDS: 1.35%
Extraction: 20.1%

Dose: 20 grams
Ratio: 1:17
Grind: Significantly Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 3:10
TDS: 1.33%
Extraction: 19.56%

Dose: 20g

Ratio: 1:17

Grind: Slightly Finer than Neutral

Brew Time: 2:51

TDS: 1.32%

Extraction: 19.5%

Dose: 21g
Ratio: 1:16
Grind: Finer than Neutral
Brew Time: 2:50
TDS: 1.41%
Extraction: 19.75%