Got my order of Red Bird today, ordered in on Monday night, so it would probably take a extra day to get to FL to answer your question.....dzitt. Also in my order I got some Brazil Sweet Blue to I've got my machine warming up right now and getting ready to try it.
emradguy Senior Member Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 1,712 Location: Houston Expertise: I live coffee
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Posted Sat Sep 15, 2012, 7:41am Subject: Re: Redbird Espresso
dzitt Said:
Is the Red Bird available widly in the US or you have to order and ship it ? Will go to Florida by the end of september, could be great to buy some good beans...
I've been drinking Red Bird for about 8 months. EVERY order I've placed has been roasted on the next business day and arrived at my home in Houston, Tx two days after that.
And hopefully when the weather starts for cool down, you'll get a piece of chocolate for every pound you buy, and it's as good as the coffee..........hint, hint :^)
Got my 1st lb of Red Bird today. Ordered Sunday, roasted Monday, and delivered to Florida today. That is excellent service; best delivery time of any on-line roaster I've used in the past. Lookin forward to trying a shot or three or four! :-)
Question, how long shall I let it rest before brewing? It's only 2 days post roast now.
I start in on the first bag when I get it, usually two days pass the roast date. But the flavor improves after four or five days pass the roast date but that's with my taste buds.
UGH! I had it! After experimenting on grind settings on the pharos I finally hit the sweet spot on this Red Bird (at least for me). It was completely unlike what I had gotten from Red Bird before (went through about ~1 1/2lbs before this point). Felt like I was drinking a liquid, coffee-fied bar of artisanal dark chocolate (Amedei, anyone?). Found myself swishing it around every nook and cranny of my mouth trying to taste it in every way i could. It was that good. Pulled about 5 shots in a row like this over 3 days and then I decided to F with it because I noticed a shot was taking around 31s to pull and "oh my god that's out of the 25-30s range. If it's this good here how great will it be when I get it down a few seconds?". Whelp I backed it off a bit, took ~28 seconds to pull and it was comparatively weak and it completely lost the heavenly chocolate taste. Naturally I didn't bother marking down where I had it before and it's being a bitch to find again. What an idiot. =(
Posted Fri Oct 12, 2012, 6:31pm Subject: Re: Redbird Espresso
The weather must be turning cooler, because Jeff has started to put the chocolate candy back in the shipments, thanks Jeff. Got my two bags of Red Bird today.
emradguy Senior Member Joined: 31 Mar 2011 Posts: 1,712 Location: Houston Expertise: I live coffee
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Posted Sat Oct 13, 2012, 1:24pm Subject: Re: Redbird Espresso
He must have run out of chocolate...or maybe it's because I live in Houston? I just received an order...5 lbs Blue Jag, 2 lbs decaf espresso...I got hard candies, not chocolates :(
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