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Area 51 — Ethiopia Yirgacheffe · Worka Nenke

Area 51 Ethiopia Yirgacheffe · Worka Nenke — xBloom

Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia · Worka Nenke washing station · JARC 74 selections + local landraces · Natural · light-medium

✅ dialed recipe

xBloom recipe

💧 Rinse the paper filter first — seat it in the Omni dripper, pop the dripper off the machine, rinse under the tap in cold water, tip the water out, then re-attach and brew. Washes out any papery taste.

🫖OmniDripper
⚖️15 gDose
💧1:16Ratio
💦240 mlWater
⚙️60Grind
🌡️93 °CTemp
🚿3.0 ml/sFlow
🌀120RPM
⏱️2:45–3:15Time

Pours

  1. 1Bloom🌡️ 93 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 45 s · 🔀 agitate after45 ml
  2. 2Pour 1🌡️ 93 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 5 s70 ml
  3. 3Pour 2🌡️ 92 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 5 s65 ml
  4. 4Pour 3🌡️ 92 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 5 s60 ml

⬇ Download this recipe (.yaml) for the xBloom CLI

Notes: strawberry · peach · molasses · milk chocolate · syrupy

High-grown (1900–2200 m) natural Yirgacheffe — expressive and fruity (strawberry, peach, syrupy). Researched starting point (no published roaster recipe found): 15 g, 1:16, grind 60 — a hair finer than a washed coffee to pull clarity out of a natural without turning it muddy — brewed at 93 °C to lift the fruit while staying clear of boozy. Bloom well (naturals degas a lot), then three even spiral pours tapering to 92 °C. A natural drinks best once well-rested off roast, not too young.

Off? one change at a time: Muddy / heavy / boozy → grind coarser (60→58), keep temp at 93 (not higher). Sour or thin / fruit muted → finer (60→62) or a longer bloom before touching temperature. Naturals hide sweetness when under-extracted — if flat, pull a touch longer/finer before blaming the bag. One lever at a time.

Roasted by Area 51

A Greek specialty roaster with a self-styled "science & research" approach — they treat brewing like a lab, testing parameters and recording results rather than taking method on faith.

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Using these recipes with the xBloom CLI

Each recipe above downloads in the format used by the open-source xbloom-ble CLI (pip install xbloom-ble) — unofficial Bluetooth control for the xBloom Studio, with a terminal UI and a live brew graph. By default xbloom brew loads a recipe onto the machine and you approve it on the device; pass --start to brew remotely instead.

xbloom brew area51-ethiopia-yirgacheffe.yaml           # load onto the machine (approve on-device)
xbloom brew https://xbloom.lodywgumce.tv/r/area51-ethiopia-yirgacheffe.yaml   # …or straight from its URL
xbloom tui                       # …or drive it all from the terminal UI