El Cafetero — Kostaryka Hacienda Sonora¶

Costa Rica · Central Valley · Hacienda Sonora (1,300–1,825 m) · SL 28 · natural · light roast

✅ 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.

Pours

1. 1Bloom🌡️ 92 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 80 s · 🔀 agitate after60 ml
2. 2Main pour🌡️ 91 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 5 s188 ml

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

Notes: peach · blackcurrant · wild rose

A natural SL 28 — a Kenyan variety grown in Costa Rica, which is exactly why it drinks like a Kenyan rather than like a typical Central American: blackcurrant and wild rose sitting on top of a ripe peach base. The farm has been in the Guardia family for decades and runs on hydro power from its own water turbine.

Why these numbers. Naturals turn bitter when pushed, so this starts at the coarse end (grind 60) with the main pour held to 91 °C rather than the 92–93 °C a washed coffee would take. Hacienda Sonora dries its SL 28 naturals by the Pirámide method — the cherries are covered through the hottest part of the afternoon and then piled in layers so the temperature evens out — which is designed to keep the boozy, over-fermented edge out of a natural. Expect this one to read cleaner and more precise than "natural" usually promises, so it is worth chasing clarity rather than taming it.

A big 60 ml bloom (4× dose) held 80 s fully de-gasses a light, dense, high-grown bean, then a single gentle main pour keeps the fines down and the fruit separated — every extra pour muddies exactly the florals this coffee is bought for. RPM 120 for maximum lift. Ratio widened to 1:16.5 for a tea-like, articulated cup instead of a thick one.

Off? one change at a time:

• Sour / thin / hollow → reach for a longer bloom or more agitation before touching the grind.
• Bitter / drying / astringent → coarser (61), or drop the main pour to 90 °C.
• Still foaming after the bloom → the bloom was too short; stretch it to 100 s.

Roasted by El Cafetero¶

A family roastery, cafe and patisserie sharing one address in central Warsaw, roasting single origins on site in small batches. Konrad is the headroaster, and he brought his father in.

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