Artificer Reviews

I also love the espresso served at Artificer Coffee. It is a small standing-room café that focuses entirely on single-origin coffees and serves only black coffee to draw out and highlight the flavor of each bean. The last espresso I had there was a washed La Palma y El Tucán Caturra lot from Cundinamarca, Colombia, which had been grown at 1,800 metres and roasted just 3 days before it was served. The barista pulled it with 20 grams in and 40 grams out over 25 seconds, and the espresso had thick caramel-coloured crema and was well-extracted. It was flavourful, clean and structured, offering blackcurrant and ripe plum first, followed by panela sugar in the middle and a dry cocoa finish which remained steady without bitterness as it cooled

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