I have been discovering the joy of mixing different types of whole bean coffees before preparing them in my French press. I find that as long as you don’t do something crazy like mix a very light roast with a very dark roast you can end up with a lot of extra depth and roundness to the flavor. Thoughts? Am I insane? A heretic??? Have you tried it?
This is what blends are. I often will add a touch of medium roast to a dark roast to dial back some of the harshness, or add a South American medium roast to an African single origin to round out the acidity
We do this in my house with the last bit of each bag and refer to it as “Frankenbeans.”
sounds like a straight coinflip to get something good tbh
No matter what you do, you can’t be as heretical as when I make cold brew just to microwave it later. This much is no big deal.
I don’t do it but I’m not opposed to it personally as long as the beans are within reasonably close roast levels.
I don’t understand how you can get good extraction with mixed beans of highly varied roast level; but if you can and enjoy the result then hell yeah; good on ya! Good coffee is life!
