Dogspeed

The house bean: toasty, low-acid and forgiving, and the coffee every recipe here was dialled in on.

Matt5
Roaster
Flat Track Coffee
Origin
Latin America, varied seasonally — typically Colombia Supremo, Guatemala (Huehuetenango or Marilandia) and Brazil (Vila Boa natural)
Process
Washed and natural
Roast level
Medium-dark
How to drink it
Takes milk well
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Toasty and roast forward with low acidity. Rounded, some chocolate. Sweeter than it is distinct: more of a winter morning than a summer day.

Flat Track build it to taste the same all year, swapping components by season rather than chasing a single lot, which is exactly what you want from the coffee you brew every day. Every recipe on this site was dialled in on Dogspeed. It is forgiving across a wide range of methods, holds a long drawdown without turning bitter, and it is the reason the flash brew comes out sweet rather than sharp.

What to do with it

HotFlash brewChemexHario V60Yeti RamblerAeroPressAeroPress XLFrench pressMoccamaster

Water temperature
203F across the pour-overs, 205F for flash brew.
Time
Takes a long drawdown well.
Grind
Fellow Ode 2: V60 02 at 3.0; Yeti Rambler at 3.0; Chemex 500 g and 800 g at 3.1; AeroPress and XL at 2.2; French press at 6.0, or 5.2 if it reads thin; Moccamaster at 5.1.
Dose and ratio
House ratio is 55 g to 800 g in the Chemex, stronger than most published recipes, and it suits this roast.

How to drink it. Flat Track build it for milk and it shows: the body and the chocolate hold their shape, so a latte or a cortado tastes like the coffee rather than like milk. Good black too, where the toast and the low acidity come forward. Skip the sugar either way.

Takes milk well

Where to buy: Flat Track Coffee, Austin

Brewed with

The recipes this bag is marked good for. Each of them says which roast its numbers assume, and what to change if yours is different.

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