Rancid coffee blues
I don't often pour a fresh cup of coffee down the drain, but I made an exception this morning.
I'd had some earlier from the same batch of beans and it was fine, but when I ground my latest cup, the grounds had a weird funk to them. They had that slightly sour, stale smell that you can get from a bag of coffee that you opened six months ago and forgot about in the back of the cupboard.
I assumed that it was just early-onset COVID or the like, and I brewed a cup as usual, but the smell did not improve. And it tasted pretty bad as well. That is, the underlying flavour was fine, but it was intertwined with a slightly sour, rancid funk.
After a couple of sips, I just dumped it and ground some more beans. These ones smell much better. I guess one or two rancid beans mush have worked their way into this particular batch.
I think I'm going to clean the grinder's burrs before I make any coffee tomorrow.
I'd had some earlier from the same batch of beans and it was fine, but when I ground my latest cup, the grounds had a weird funk to them. They had that slightly sour, stale smell that you can get from a bag of coffee that you opened six months ago and forgot about in the back of the cupboard.
I assumed that it was just early-onset COVID or the like, and I brewed a cup as usual, but the smell did not improve. And it tasted pretty bad as well. That is, the underlying flavour was fine, but it was intertwined with a slightly sour, rancid funk.
After a couple of sips, I just dumped it and ground some more beans. These ones smell much better. I guess one or two rancid beans mush have worked their way into this particular batch.
I think I'm going to clean the grinder's burrs before I make any coffee tomorrow.