Milk Blend Espresso
Built for milk drinks.
Prodigal's signature milk blend is mostly a clean, soft Colombian Caturra, with a livelier second coffee that changes as fresh green comes through the roastery. The second component rotates, but the blend stays tuned for flat whites and lattes.
Coffee Details
- Origin: Colombia, plus a rotating coffee
- Variety: Caturra, plus a rotating coffee
- Roast level: Medium, by our shelf grading
- Best for: Espresso · Milk drinks
- 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 Milk Blend Espresso 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.
