Boulder Blend
Reviews.
Prodigal's weekly house blend, fruity and bright.
Prodigal blend washed coffees with natural and honey-processed ones, so ripe fruit sits on a clean, juicy base. Every batch comes from their current headline coffees rather than lots bought for blending, so the components shift a little from week to week. They roast it as a filter and omni roast, for the pour-over or the espresso machine.
Coffee Details
- Tasting notes: Fruity, Bright, Balanced (Prodigal's description)
- Origin: Global
- Variety: Mixed
- Process: Mostly washed, with some natural, honey or anaerobic lots
- Roast level: Filter and omni roast, as published by Prodigal
- Best for: Filter · Espresso
- Roaster: Prodigal Coffee, Colorado
About Prodigal Coffee
Prodigal is Scott Rao and Mark Benedetto's roastery in Colorado. Rao wrote The Coffee Roaster's Companion, and the roastery releases at least one new coffee every week alongside two house blends, Boulder Blend and Milk Blend Espresso.
Pre-order for the 2 November roast
Order by 1 November to be on this batch. Prodigal roast our order on Monday 2 November, the beans reach us about a week later, and your bag ships that same week. We never promise a delivery date; the final courier leg is not ours to guarantee.
In the cup.
How Boulder Blend shows up — flavour profile, body, finish — graded on our internal cupping rubric.
Brew it
like this.
- Ratio
- 15g : 250g
- Time
- 3:00
- Temp
- 93°C
Bloom 30s. Four pours of 60g, 30s apart.
- Ratio
- 30g : 500g
- Time
- 4:00
- Temp
- 92°C
Plunge slow. Decant immediately to avoid over-extraction.
- Ratio
- 18g : 36g
- Time
- 28s
- Temp
- 93°C
Distribute, tamp level, pull. Adjust grind to hit time.
