Rodrick Nzirainengwe is making an serious impression in the SA coffee circles. 4th place Western Cape Barista Champs, and now 1st place AeroPress. Roderick beat Wayne Oberholzer (SA Barista Champs 2012) and Khanyiso Duisana in the final to take the R1000 jackpot at Truth Coffee HQ in Cape Town on Friday night.
Finalists Khanyiso, Wayne & Roderick
The AeroPress champs is simply about flavour. Participants have 8 min to submit a single cup to 3 flavour judges who pick their favourite without knowing who made them. No tech sheets, just point at your favourite cup.
Judge Gerald Charles is ready, Judge Dave Coleman is steady, and David Mansell is Go! Head Judge Zane Mattisson waits in the event of a tie.
Rodrick shares how he got the winning flavours from the Ethiopian Yergacheffe comp coffee.
“My dosage was 20g of coffee, my grind setting was on filter if you are using a ditting grinder, but a little bit finer,because i wanted to brew very gently and calm. I boiled my water to a 95 degrees let it cool whilst I grind my coffee and started using it when in was 90 degrees, because we were using a very sweet ginger,lemon and citrus flavoublackbtn coffee I chose to use 20g just to get my flavours right by no using more coffee then it becomes very bitter, i first poublackbtn 150g of water, and stir right from the bottom going up to the middle until I get a shiny glassy golden yellowish creamer on top. Then pour onother 75g of water so that 225g of water to 20g of coffee and pressure plunge for a total brew time of 1min30.”
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