{"id":3128,"date":"2024-12-25T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2024-12-25T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T01:07:18","slug":"coffee-hire-wires-conscientious-objector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/25\/coffee-hire-wires-conscientious-objector\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee: Hire Wire’s Conscientious Objector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you told me I would adore a medium roast made pour-over style THIS MUCH, I might not have believed you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have an almost religious identity as a French Press coffee person: I love the flavor that emerges from coffee when it has time to steep in boiling water without having a paper filter come between me and the oils. Our local roasters are so good that I also have a dark-roast-as-choice-not-to-hide-poor-bean-quality set of beliefs and tastes: gently dark-roasted coffee can taste RICH without bitterness. I have had over-roasted beans, and dislike those flavors; but a skilled roaster doesn’t go so far. In addition to my press, I have a single-cup pour-over device from a local fancy place, and use it for small servings, but am dissatisfied with the off-brand filters I’ve been using with it. I periodically have medium or (rarely) light roasts that I enjoy, especially when Ethiopian coffee has that almost blueberry aftertaste, but that can go too far for me, and I revert back to dark roasts in my daily habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet two things happened last week: my friend New K gifted me a bag of Oakland-roasted medium roast beans from Hire Wire, and I won a knockoff Chemex-style, paperless pour-over brewing kit at the gift exchange at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh. My. Goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conscientious Objector is at about the 70% mark on High Wire’s “roast intensity” scale. The beans are medium-light brown, but oh do they make a gloriously inky, opaque pot of pour-over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This coffee, which High Wire notes will change seasonally and from crop to crop, is smooth, fragrant, flavorful, and delicious. I prepared it in my beloved French Press and enjoyed it hot (to most accurately compare it to my usual beans); I chilled some of the French Press, and enjoyed it iced; and finally, I broke out the new pour-over device, and ran sub-boiling water through the grinds while they got all creamy during stirring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So GOOD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am eager for a cup every morning (and am on vacation from work, so I have a chance to make it at a civilized pace!). I brewed some during my mother’s visit and made her a sweetened version with almond milk; she gave up coffee decades ago, and claims she doesn’t even like coffee<\/strong> now, but loved it so much I made a multi-serving jar for her to take home with her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friends with great taste in coffee are great friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have an almost religious identity as a French Press coffee person: I love the flavor that emerges from coffee when it has time to steep in boiling water without having a paper filter come between me and the oils. Our local roasters are so good that I also have a dark-roast-as-choice-not-to-hide-poor-bean-quality set of beliefs … <\/p>\n

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