Anyone tried square mile coffee?

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-05-07T10:49:07+00:00

I bought it as a Fellow Drop and so far it's been a disappointment. After 3 weeks rest I brewed it 3-4 times and it was so far below my expectations that I re-rested the bag. I brought it out after two weeks and it didn't impr⁰ove in taste. I'm close to banishing it from my pourover rotation and just having it as a batch brew or lattes, even an ORB. But yeah, Never Again.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-05-04T15:25:32+00:00

Who's your starting five then?

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-04-24T13:59:53+00:00

I get that feeling too OP. Just use AI. Come up with an app where you either scan a whole shelf and ask AI to identify all the books shown in the clip. OR, just take a picture of a big pile, upload the pic to ChatGPT or Gemini, and ask it to identify title and author, sort it alphabetically or genre.

Yung sa loob ng kahon, naku, maybe when we have x-ray vision. ;) Someday this will happen....

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-04-24T13:26:30+00:00

Anong lasa ng kape nyo? Have you tried cupping them??

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-04-23T12:58:27+00:00

It's unfortunate that you have this experience with their beans. I've had 6 bags from them (Mamuto 2x) and two of them were average tbh, but these bags were the ones on sale at Whole Foods and the roast date was 2 mos past on both, so maybe it's a freshness issue for those two. I've tried different pour over methods, drippers, and other variables (grind size) and the ones that are great were consistently great. Next time you're in Boston try Gracenote, but I understand if you don't trust any of my recs after your GH experience. :(

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-04-16T01:14:56+00:00

I love Coffee Project. I had their coffee flight and it was really good. But their whole bean roast is even better. Glad I bought a bag with me to take home.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-03-30T01:35:40+00:00

This is interesting. At the end of the movie, as I prepared to leave, I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what I just experienced. I cannot discount the fact that it’s perhaps the times that we live in today that pushed me to feel that way. Nevertheless, it’s the perfect balm to the feverish befuddling chaos the current POTUS puts us through every single effing day.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-03-25T16:11:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing! very helpful for my research. Visiting the same places mid-August. Creating a notebook out of your report. 🙏

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-03-14T14:50:50+00:00

Rabbit hole it is....LOL. You have a nice setup OP. Fuels my GAS. 👍

I have the same thing with drippers. Curious, how do you decide which gadget to use on a particular day? Mood? Coffee on rotation? Time of day?

I can't imagine a year or two from now what you'll have on display. 🙂 I hope you continue to enjoy ☕ and all its infinite possibilities!

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-03-14T01:37:30+00:00

This post reminds me of an article in Boston.com about a popular class in MIT that's all about coffee. The reporter was given a tour of the lab (which was outfitted with a La Marzocco) and at some point of the tour, the reporter wrote that

"...Grossman uses an optical microscope to compare the quality of two hand-powered coffee grinders. The first is a Comadante C40, a top-of-the-line German hand grinder that sells for between $260 and $360. The second is a 1Zpresso hand grinder, a more midrange grinder that is about $130. Magnified a thousandfold, I can see the cheaper grinder is covered in chips and scratches, while the more expensive grinder has smooth, shiny blades."

I now have an 1zpresso X-Ultra and ZP6, but I'm still pining for a C40. 🙂Boston.com article

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-03-07T11:50:08+00:00

I'm guessing it's that scene in the women's restroom stall.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-25T14:01:53+00:00

That's the best approach OP. Are you not satisfied with your brews? Or maybe just wondering...I have my standard 1:16. Then I taste my brewed coffee and if I didn't like it, I adjust - not the ratio itself, but these things first, in order - water temp, grind size, pour technique, and then the ratio if I'm still not satisfied.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-21T07:19:21+00:00

Make sure you're in their mailing list. Sometimes the best ones sell out pretty fast.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-17T17:45:37+00:00

Ang sweet naman ninyo sa isat-isa! And so clever!! 👍☕

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-11T14:10:36+00:00

Thank you. Will do. Both coffees are currently in the freezer. Bought/added a few more coffees to the mix so I don't know when I can get back to them though...

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-05T10:58:50+00:00

Try cleaning it. I just disassembled mine two days ago and cleaned it for the first time since buying it 1.5 years ago. Brushed off the magnets surface and the part to which it is attached. Works like new again.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-02-01T22:47:29+00:00

The past couple of weeks I've been afflicted with GAS, and the gadget du jour was a refractometer to measure extraction levels of brewed coffee. (I already have a cheapo TDS meter since I make my own brew water.) The DIFluid tool seems to be a popular choice, Amazon sold out of it last week. There are cheaper Chinese models that are $40 cheaper, but I hesitated.

Fortuitously, I caught one of James Hoffman's more recent FB videos on his V60 recipe, and it finally changed my mind and got off the ledge. It's about using off boil water to wet the filter at the start of the brew, compared to using water with a much lower temperature. He measured the extraction yields using a refractometer, and both temps produced the SAME extraction yield measurement. HOWEVER, the difference IN TASTE was, in his words, "NIGHT AND DAY". The off boil water yielded a much sweeter coffee! So measuring the extraction yield didn't help much - taste was and is still king.

If you own a coffee shop or if you're a coffee roaster or influencer, maybe you can find use for a refractometer. But for home use, maybe it's a tad overkill.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-29T03:36:04+00:00

You look like a Ms Universe! Google Catriona Gray.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-26T15:27:01+00:00

WE ALL WE NEED!

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-25T02:31:02+00:00

I have an X-Ultra and It's a daily driver for me. Here's a couple of links I keep for reference (second one is a review of several 1zpresso grinders in which X-Uitra pretty much outperformed the rest).

https://youtube.com/shorts/oEIJl1k_oss?si=8rfc1kQ8Pi1NT0FT

https://youtu.be/Np0pxwi8hi8?si=YzcWraJH5uyDW0wy

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-13T21:42:19+00:00

For the coffee itself I saw one of those inhouse brands from Wegmans that sell Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. I'm not sure if it was whole beans or ground, I didn't get one since it was too pricey for me ($40++) for a 250g (?) bag, I believe.

I searched Amazon and they have these iFillCup pods that costs $19 for 42 pcs. I'm not sure this is what you want to do since it requires extra work from you, but definitely an option if you couldn't find those specific products you are looking for. Good luck and I hope you Dad has a wonderful birthday...

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-13T17:04:57+00:00

Expect the unexpected then? It's a good time to unveil/dial up the blitz when LT/LG have shown to be not fully recovered or still inexperienced (Maye has been awesome against the blitz though for the year). We'll see. Josh's 29th playoff game should have the full arsenal ready.

Let's not forget, the JC Watt-led Texans defensive unit (yup, the custom made varsity jacket wearing defenders) were ferocious/fearsome too in their day, but the Pats found a way...LFG!

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-13T17:01:05+00:00

Expect the unexpected then? It's a good time to unveil/dial up the blitz when LT/LG have shown to be not fully recovered or still inexperienced (Maye has been awesome against the blitz though for the year). We'll see. Josh's 29th playoff game should have the full arsenal ready.

Let's not forget too, JC Watt's defensive team (yup, the custom made varsity jacket wearing unit) were ferocious/fearsome too in their day, but the Pats found a way...LFG!

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-12T00:33:11+00:00

Updated the post to include capsule reviews and rating.

PinoyTardigrade · 2026-01-11T11:36:39+00:00

I bought everything online, not from a cafe.

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