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Creating a blend of espresso coffee is not easy. It requires an in-depth competence about the coffees, a lot of experience, and never-ending enthusiasm to always challenge yourself and do something better. Plus, that innate magic touch that always distinguishes the champion from the crowd of average players, no matter if we are in golf, tennis, or coffee.

Hours and hours of hard work are needed to cover very carefully the following ten steps:

1. Firstly, you need to sit down and plan your blend 'on paper'. How strange it may appear, Write down what you have in mind. You must imagine what types of coffee you will blend together, before actually doing it.
2. Put in front of you on a table all the green coffees that are in your availability. As an example, you might have 4 Santos, 5 from Nicaragua, etc. An expert coffee alchemist (as I like to call them) may have over 50 types of coffee in his ... 'private collection'.
3. Take the first green coffee, the one that should represent your main ingredient. Say it is one of your Santos.
4. Roast 3 types of it: blonde, medium, dark. Put them apart with labels that will be helpful later to recognize them.
5. Take now another coffee. Which one? Mmhm, we cannot disclose part of the secret. Proceed selecting more coffees, and roasting each of them with one or two or three intensities.

   How many coffees are needed to create an espresso blend? It depends. They can be up to 7-10 for the finest, most exclusive blends.

6. Once all coffees are roasted and labelled, let them have a rest for approximately 10 days.
7. When all coffees are ready, it is possible to start blending them. It is not an easy exercise at all: just consider that our Coffee Alchemist might have prepared so far from 5 up to 20+ different coffees (types of green coffee used, times the number of roasts for each of them). The number of possible combinations is huge!

   Anyhow, it is now time to take your coffee roadmap (the piece of paper as of point 1), and start the first combination blending the coffees (type and roast) at given percentages. Example: 35% Santos + 25% Ethiopia + ... (numbers are just random).

8. Grind this first blend (differently for espresso or for mocha).
9. Brew and cup the coffee: how do you like it? Is it what you expected? What is missing? Too spicy? or just a little bit bitter? Would you like it more creamy? Etc. etc. Evaluation is key, in order to score this blend and figure out how to beat it with the next one.
10. Drink a glass of water to clean the mouth. Wait 15-20 minutes, then combine, grind, brew and cup the next blend.

Steps 8 to 10 are to be repeated, combination after combination, until the wished espresso blend is reached.

As said at the beginning, the above ten steps path is not an easy journey. The involved factors are:

- how many green coffees were selected

- how many roasts have you done for each of them

- how do you mix them, what is the percentage of each of those coffees in the ideal blend.

Great care, love, knowledge and patience are needed to achieve the best result, and 'discover' the right blend.

It is not a 1-day task. Very often, the Coffee Alchemist takes 2 months before leaving his lab fully satisfied, with a new 'baby' ready to delight our palate.

I wish each of you can meet one of these espresso blends one day. When you will be enjoying it, don't forget to give thanks in your mind to him, the Coffee Alchemist. Somehow, he will know and will be happy.

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What is the best "grind and brew" automatic coffee maker?

I'm looking for an automatic "Grind and Brew" coffee maker with a timer. This type of coffee maker automatically grinds whole beans and brews the coffee for you based on timer settings. There are a few on the market from Cuisinart and Capresso, but not many reviews out there. Can anyone either recommend one or warn me about ones that don't work very well?

I have a Cuisinart Automatic Grind & Brew Thermal and it works quite well for me. I add the water and place the beans in the grinder and program it to go off right b4 I get up. It shuts off with 5 beeps when the coffee is finished and stays hot to warm for a few hours.
The only thing is that, sometimes, I have to use the grinder twice to make sure all of the beans are ground down (I guess I like a STRONG cup of coffee).
I found the coffee maker a liquidator shop and paid $77 for it.