Mariam - Dubai | Home Espresso Brewing with April #46

This week, we’re bringing you the latest video from a series that we call Home Espresso Brewing with April. We’re on a layover in Dubai, meeting with Mariam before heading over to South African for the latest April Brewers Cup. This is our second video filmed together with Mariam, this time taking a closer look at her approach to dialling in coffee.
We believe that innovation in coffee brewing starts at home, and that some of the most special and meaningful interactions with coffee can take place within your own kitchen.
As we are frequently travelling visiting our international partners, we decided to introduce this format as a way to interact with you on a different level whilst maintaining the frequency of our videos.
In this video, Mariam dials in a coffee that she has never tasted before, a washed processed Ecuadorian Typica from the Pillcocaja farm. She uses an EK-43 to grind her doses, and a Dalla Corte Mina Single Group to brew the espresso.
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[@jorisfassina3789]

Great vidéo ! Patrick, you mention that you prefer shallow pucks taste profile, how can you describe the taste profile differences between shallow and deeper puck ? Thank you very much for your answer 😉

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for watching and asking. We find that a "shallower" puck profile to have a higher taste quality and a cleaner overall experience. A deeper puck often generats a taste profile with a higher perceived bitterness. That being said a puck can be both too shallow and too deep. We recommend to stay within -2g from the basket size and work with a basket size that is as wide as possible. What kind of basket are you using for brewing?

[@jorisfassina3789]

​@@coffeewithapril. Amazing ! Thank you for your feedback 😉. Personnaly,I use the weber workshop 20g and I also start to experiment with the sworksdesign stepdown basket 49mm. But I need more Time to make an opinion haha. For the moment I really enjoy your style of shot , 20g basket, 19g in , ~1/3 ratio, less than 20 sec 😉 (high clarity, clean...👍)

[@coffeewithapril]

​@@jorisfassina3789That's great to hear. That said we often recommend to be at least 20 seconds, and a longer extraction could make a lot of sense as well. Faster than 20 seconds will indeed make for a cleaner taste experience. But you want it clean and high quality - hence we recommend aiming for a long contact time.

[@jorisfassina3789]

@@coffeewithapril Ok , thank you for your feedback, I will experiment with longer contact Time 😉

[@PradyumnVij]

Wow first resignation! 😱 Regarding the 45mm tools there are quite a few dosing cups for 45mm out and also dosing rings for example Normcore. VST also makes 45mm baskets. If you want a tamper something like a Happy Tamper where you can specify the diameter of the tamping surface. There should be a lot of tampers in that 45mm range as Breville / Sage also uses the same diameter. I appreciate in this episode about the tips on grinding coarser and having faster extraction.

[@coffeewithapril]

That's great, thank you for the recommendations. What would your version of a "fast and coarse" recipe be?

[@PradyumnVij]

@@coffeewithapril definitely depends on the coffee I generally start with 1:2 for medium roast or 1:3 for light roast with an extraction time of 15 seconds then chase flavour in terms of getting rid of dry finishes and looking for an acidic and juicy taste. I then fine tune using grinding speed (higher rpm for more fine particles which can improve sweetness or effervescence or reduce speed for faster flow and more acidity).

[@stronghu1]

what Kind of basket are use?

[@coffeewithapril]

The basket used is the standard model that comes with the machine. The standard basket that you find in a Dalla Corte Mina home espresso machine.

[@sukhdeokhobragade7352]

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[@ora2693]

Would appreciate it if you recognized your guests by adding their social media or full name in the video description so we can find them. Luckily I was easily able to search Mariam on google because she is more well known but I think it’s quite a task to find some of your other guests with only their first name.

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for your recommendations. We will ask them in the future. Not everyone wants to share their full name on the internet. But it would be fun to share their instagram accounts.