THE BARN — Guava Banana¶
Colombia · Tolima · Caturra · anaerobic 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
- 1Bloom60 ml
- 2Main pour180 ml
⬇ Download this recipe (.yaml) for the xBloom CLI
Notes: guava · mango · vibrant
Dialed. 60 · 15 g → 240 ml (1:16) · 93 °C · 80 s bloom then one pour.
Guava and mango, and it wants to be loud — an anaerobic natural billed as vibrant, not a delicate washed cup. When it tastes quiet, something is wrong; that is not its character.
How it got here. The starting grind of 62 was inherited from El Recreo, the closest dialed anaerobic natural in this log, and never measured for this lot — it sat at the coarse end of a range whose median is 60. The first cup came out sour and thin with a hollow middle: stopped short, not muddy, which is the opposite of the over-extraction anaerobics usually fall into. One step finer to 60 fixed it and the fruit turned up. Age pointed the same way — the bag was 33 days off roast, and aged coffee extracts faster, so a setting still stopping short that late was too coarse to begin with.
93 °C is the roaster’s own figure for this lot, and it stays even though the cup reads hot in the hand: cooler water lowers extraction, which is the wrong direction for a sour cup. The 80 s bloom with 60 ml (4× dose) is a measured lesson, not a preference — a shorter one left heavy CO2 foaming afterwards, and the xBloom cannot hand-swirl, so a small bloom leaves dry pockets. Then a single gentle main pour: fewer pours means fewer fines and cleaner fruit, and naturals muddy when over-agitated.
Off? one change at a time:
- Sour / thin / hollow → finer (58). This bean has already proved it prefers that direction.
- Bitter / boozy / drying → back out to 62, then 92 °C.
- Correct but faint → that is strength, not extraction: tighten to 1:15 (15 g → 225 ml), leave the grind.
- Heavy foaming after the bloom → still off-gassing; lengthen the bloom rather than touching the grind.
- Muddy or flat → do not add pours. Keep it at two and let the bed settle.
Roasted by THE BARN¶
Berlin's third-wave pioneer and one of Europe's most respected roasters — very light, Scandinavian-style roasts, uncompromising single origins, and nothing on the shelf below 86 points.
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 the-barn-guava-banana.yaml # load onto the machine (approve on-device)
xbloom brew https://xbloom.lodywgumce.tv/r/the-barn-guava-banana.yaml # …or straight from its URL
xbloom tui # …or drive it all from the terminal UI