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Didn’t realize this had been spun off the main coffee thread. /ignore.

Sounds perfect to me!

Anybody interested in sharing local beans, secret Santa style? I would love to share the amazing beans that are roasted here in Cincinnati.

First pressing US White Album. It’s not better than VG, but I like it.

I don’t have tons of details, but Square Mile bought up the entire export production of a remote farm in Oaxaca. I’m excited to try it! I have really liked the Mexican coffees I’ve had. I’m guessing it’ll be 12 ounce bags? No idea. The idea of only being able to try this coffee being through a contest makes it even more exciting, and I’ve been wanting to try Square Mile for a while now.

For anyone curious about espresso dosing with the Ode, the espresso doser (a 51mm for my Breville) goes in the Ode dosing cup. The magnet raises the espresso doser to just the right height, and it fits perfectly. Wouldn’t work with a larger portafilter, probably, unless it was a fairly short dosing cup) but this should work a treat for my workflow (haven’t used it yet) while minimizing mess.

Ian, my partner would really like that, as she enjoys flavored coffees. She doesn’t really consume refined sugar on the regular, though, so I bet I could modify it with truvia (they make a brown version too, which I use for Cubanos, and it’s great), though I would have to play with ratios. Thanks for posting that!

They have been talking about a V2 burr for ages. Yet to see any real progress made public. What they really need to do is make a V2 version of the grinder to fix the issues. It’s close, but it feels like it’s about 80 percent baked. Better than half-baked, I guess. Having said that, I’m very happy with the grounds and workflow and process I get for pour over, and the grounds it makes for espresso are really quite nice, but it’s hardly ideal for that workflow (and the retention is much higher with the burrs that close, but of course it wasn’t designed to do it). I imagine a V2 will be step less, lower retention, and with in house burrs that resemble the SSP multipurpose, and a dosing cup that is suited for espresso (I bought a cheap doser and glued a magnet to the bottom; not perfect but it works). It would be a great home grinder for $500 like that. I won a bag of Coffee in Hoffman’s 1 Million Bean Giveaway! I never win anything in contests, so I’m excited. I’ll report tasting notes once I have it.

It would also be straight forward to turn the Ode into a step less grinder, I think, but I’m going to use it for a while before I disassemble it again and attempt what I have in mind for that.

The Ode with SSP is much better if you completely disassemble the front end and re-calibrate the calibration mechanism. Shouldn’t drift now, and I can grind Turkish to French press. Even better, there now isn’t any room in the mechanism for coffee to get into, so I can adjust the setting smoothly without having to run the grinder while doing so (apparently a common issue). The thing has some of what I can only describe as “baffling design choices,” internally. Those choices mean that it is very sensitive to being assembled carefully. It works fine if it has been. Clearly this one was not. The issue I fixed is likely what causes some people to complain about the auto shut-off not working: there was enough slack that, if there was any more slack in this example, the motor would have difficulty detecting whether or not resistance has been applied. Shouldn’t have to do all of that, but here we are. I’m happy with it now. Edit: in Fellow’s defense, the issues I was fixing wouldn’t have been a problem with the stock burrs, as they just weren’t consistent enough for the small variation to be a factor. Fellow sells these burrs, though.

Container ship with Flair 58s finally was released for delivery to the warehouse. They then have to do QC and box up and then ship, and who knows how long that will take, but it’s at least progress.

I have an older version of that machine (I think it’s essentially the same heating and flow equipment, but with an older version of the electronics): it’s what I use when I don’t use my Flair Pro2 (someday the cargo ship the Flair 58 is on will dock and I’ll get it), so it’s what I mostly use. I’ve had the Breville for nearly 10 years and am not going to replace it anytime real soon. It makes delicious espresso. Much better than what the neighborhood coffee shop, which is pretentious but otherwise doesn’t really seem to care about quality, puts out on tens of thousands of dollars of equipment. I had my first coffee from Malawi today, thanks to Covered_ears. It’s delicious. Quite mellow, with a very pronounced citrus flavor (but not a lot of acidity, per se) and a lingering undertone of barley malt. Pour over 16:1. Delicious.

That is my expectation! Hopefully I’ll get it at the same time the Flair 58 arrives (it’s still off the port of LA in a container ship).

Finally listening to Let It Be Superdeluxe. I’ve obviously heard the Glyn Johns bootleg, but boy this is the album I wanted Let It Be Naked to be, in full quality. Warts and all, and there are plenty. It’s glorious.

I sort of feel silly having bought it, when I ended up just ordering a Niche like a week later, but Ode with SSP isn’t going anywhere: it’s an incredible grinder for filter in this configuration. It doesn’t taste like an espresso-focused grinder. I also hate it, but that’s not the point: I love a lot of things I hate.* It’s just so close to being good. But boy is this a good cup of coffee (Rwandan misozi, in this case). *this is eye-rollingly obvious to anybody who has met me. It’s probably a big part of why I’m a weird shut in.

Keeping things you don’t use is indeed that. That is the conclusion I’ve come to as well.

It took about half an hour. It is not difficult, but you have to make sure you have the fixed burr TIGHT. That is where I was getting drift, I think. Given the lack of adjustment you have to have baseline setting absolutely set. Having said alI of that: it will not work for French press, Nate: the SSP burrs go finer. This grinder will no longer grind for French Press. The burrs are a couple hundred bucks. It will grind amazing French with the stock burrs, but it doesn’t go very fine with those, even with the 1.1 set. This grinder can do espresso or it can do French press, but not both, and it can’t *really* do espresso, regardless of the burr set. I mean it can, and does, but it also can’t and won’t. I honestly don’t know what electric grinder to suggest that isn’t ridiculously expensive. I’ll happily send you a hand grinder that will do both; I have spares. But it would be a hand grinder. I really don’t know. The new Vario+ by Baratza maybe? For $500-ish that might he the sweet spot if you do espresso or French, but nothing in between. I know you have a Bambino, which is a better electric machine than what I’m using. Sorry I’m not helpful here, but short story long this isn’t the grinder you should have in mind. I like it VERY much, but my use case isn’t the same as yours as I mostly do pour over, and this is amazing for that and frustrating for anything else. 😕

I may or may not be fucking with Sam. but I’ll report back.

I bet it’s significantly inferior to the Ode with SSP for filter. I’ll be sure to compare.

I bought a Niche. It will supposedly ship in December. We’ll see.

Well, I just beat that cup, going from one bean to Gesha. I think I’m going to go back to bed; what is the point of staying awake when you have peaked at 7 AM?

I’m repeating myself here. This grinder should have the SSP burrs stock. The pour over is absolutely effortless and wonderful. Espresso with it is… frustrating. They could calibrate it with espresso grind not being possible with these burrs and they would have the best pour over grinder in the world under $1,000. Yeah, you can make amazing espresso with it. I won’t use anything else again, if I have a choice, for filter, and I mostly drink filter. I just had the best filter cup I’ve ever had.

The conclusion I have come to is that the Ode with SSP can grind for espresso. It can make delicious espresso. It’s a reach though. But it effortlessly makes the most wonderful pour-over you have ever had.

One big difference between, say, an EK43 and the SSP burrs in the Ode is that the Ode gets bound up. EK43 doesn’t notice. Hand grinders get bound up, but you expect it. I wish I could share this coffee I made using the Ode, though.

Primarily scooping coffee beans, because I’m a poseur, but I like the spoon. It wasn’t the first time I hot blued something, but it’s the best one.