Hi all friendly bullet users,
I’m working on a Turkish Coffee profile. Any more people this and do have some suggestions or willing to share a recepi?
Thanks!
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Well, I’d say there’s no such thing as a Turkish coffee profile. It depends more on grind size than the actual roasting. As for the roasting, that depends on what you or your customers, if you have those, prefer. For me it comes down to the coffee you’re using for Turkish. I found that the best results come from natural Yemeni and Ethiopian coffees. You can then play around to see where on the color spectrum the coffee tastes best. For me it would be somewhere between 95 and 80 agtron. HTH.
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I am interested in Turkish coffee as well, in general in Arab countries they make a blend of medium and dark roast usually with ratio 1:1 or 2 medium and 1 dark.
I guess they do it this way to bring the best of taste from medium roast and the sweetness from the dark roast.
Personally, I prefer single source medium roast only (I add some cardamom during grinding stage).
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A lot of Ethiopian and Yemeni naturals already have notes of cardamom in them, so I don’t see why there would be a need to add some. Of course, over roasting your coffee can take away their natural flavor and have you adding cardamom instead of tasting it in the coffee. I don’t know why people don’t burn their food to remove flavor, but they’re OK doing it with coffee.
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Mill City Roasters has a video on YouTube that is an hour long but goes into great depth of brewing Turkish coffee with guest: World Cezve/Ibrik Champion Turgay Yildizli.
Turgay debunks a lot of the myths about the old ways of brewing Turkish/Arabic Coffee.
If you are interested in Turkish coffee, it is definitly worth watching.
Near the end Turgay talks a little bit about coffee selection and roasting.
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I was in Turkey once, I suppose its coffee is quite overrated 