There in front of me is the bag of 125-gram beans of the Panama Kotowa Heirloom Natural Espresso. The label lists as flavors: Nectarine, Lime, Strawberry & Raspberry.

The price for this Ultra Limited is decent: 125 grams costs €12.50. Per cup, the coffee comes out to about 80 - 90 euro cents, brewed at home. As a home coffee maker with your home machine, are you going to taste those flavors easily, is the question I ask myself?

Quick Mill 820, handy machineFor
over 25 years, one of my most loyal espresso machines has been this Quick Mill 820. A handy little machine that usually allows me to brew a very good cup of coffee in a quick moment.

Weighing, grinding and brewingCoffee
freshly ground is very important. Figuring out the fineness of the grind quickly is also important. I decide to grind these beans really fine. First, I weigh 1 gram of beans with a Hario scale. I make sure the grinder has no other, older grinds and beans. With a few beans, I grind the grinder "clean" . I finely adjust the grinder.

Then I heat the cups with hot not boiling water from the espresso machine and leave them with the hot water so the porcelain absorbs the heat.

I weigh 18 grams of beans and grind them on a pretty fine setting. I put the 18 grams into the hot filter holder with the tray for 2 cups of coffee (with 2 spouts). I carefully mash the coffee with the Boot pestle.

Then I click the filter holder into the machine, put the empty, hot cups (I have discarded the water) under the spouts of the filter holder and in the next movement press the brew button. With the other hand, I simultaneously run a timer so I know the brew time when the cups are full enough. This is an important moment. Will there be fine jets?

It's exciting for a moment.... And yes, the first eureka - moment!

The pump in the machine pushes the hot coffee water through the ground coffee after about 5 seconds. With fine jets, the cups are half-filled in about 25- 28 seconds.

Smell and
tasteWith my nose above the cup, I smell the espresso moisture and the crema layer. As I move the cup slightly back and forth, I slide my nose all directions above the cup. Hmmm what layered aromas of lime, something of chocolate and roasted fruit sugars.... Again and again different layers of aroma I smell. And then, then I take a sip. I suck the liquid in with some oxygen.

Sensation of the moment, tastingReally
nectarine mixed with lime and raspberry, I really taste that. (Only the strawberry I couldn't find this time.)

And this was my first cup brewed with my home espresso machine Quick Mill 820!

After that, I made several cups and each time the nectarine flavor comes out with ease. What a layered coffee, how wonderful such a sensation of the now. Such a taste experience gives Happiness by Taste.

My advice on the Panama Kotowa Heirloom NaturalGo
taste that coffee, this is truly a sensation as an espresso and as a filter coffee. An Ultra Limited, very limited supply!


P.s.
I use the Hario Skerton Pro
as a hand grinder and the
Baratza Sette 270
WI
as an electric grinder. The Quick Mill 820 espresso machine comes with a very good workshop as a buyer. The link to the scale is here. Coffee farmer Ricardo Koyner who I have known since 1994 has downed and tested a large number of Ethiopian arabica varieties on his Kotowa plantation. That's what the collective term Heirloom stands for. This is a rare small lot of only a few dozen kilos of coffee, hence the name "Ultra Limited. You can read more about the coffee and order here .