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Now back to our regularly scheduled program: fresh, washed Ethiopians have arrived, and we couldn’t be happier. If we could have purchased a whole container of this, I would have (we’d then be broke, but happy.)

Stephen from The Coffee Quest US found this lot and earmarked it for us, knowing we’d jump on it.

This year’s Ethiopian crop seems to be the best in some years. This coffee won’t last long 💨

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☕️ COFFEE TIP OF THE DAY!! ☕️ How to find the rough side of the filter


If you use a Pulsar or Pulsar Mini, Filter3, or a Hoop with my upgraded filter paper, all of those papers are “creped” on one side. Creped paper has been deliberately wrinkled, crinkled, or textured during manufacturing, resulting in a three-dimensional, wavy structure rather than a flat, smooth surface.

Creped paper provides faster flow with lower risk of clogging. Since the creped/rough side of the filter paper has more surface area than flat filter paper, it can catch more fines and can accommodate more holes for high flow. To achieve such flow with a flat surface would require larger holes, which would decrease flavor clarity. So creped filters can provide high flow, low clogging, and high clarity.

I have received more than 100 “How can I tell which side is rough?” messages over the past few years. Here are two suggestions to find the rough side: 

1. Rub the filter between your thumb and forefinger, then flip the filter over several times, rubbing between those two fingers. Flipping the filter should help make the textural contrast easier to detect.

2. If you still can’t feel the difference, look at the filter along its profile in front of a light bulb or a dark surface. The rougher side of the filter should look like it has small hairs sticking off of it.

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