Mayfly Espresso Blend Medium-Dark Roast Coffee

Espresso Blend Medium-Dark Roast Coffee: profile and selection

Mayfly’s Espresso Blend is built around a medium-dark roast with baker’s chocolate, brown sugar and citrus in the current tasting profile. The roaster describes rotating coffees from Latin America and Africa, including washed and natural processing. That flexible sourcing suits a blend selected for its cup character rather than a promise of one permanent farm combination.

This page preserves the roaster’s documented origin, process, roast, tasting, format and story details without filling gaps with assumptions. The factual profile below is the scope of the current product record.

Current selections include 12 oz, 2 lb and 5 lb. Confirm the exact size, grind, caffeine choice and flavor when applicable before ordering.

Coffee profile

Brew for Medium-dark coffee

For espresso, begin with a basket-appropriate 18-gram dose and about 36 grams of beverage yield. Treat a 1:2 ratio and roughly 25–30 seconds as diagnostic references, not rigid targets. Taste the shot before changing the recipe.

A fast, thin or sharply sour shot usually needs a finer grind. A slow shot with a dry finish often benefits from a coarser setting. Hold dose and yield steady during the first change so extraction, strength and flow are not confused.

Taste a straight shot before adding milk, then test the same recipe in the intended cappuccino or latte. If the coffee disappears, try a slightly shorter ratio after achieving even extraction.

Use a scale for dose and water. Beverage yield, drawdown and total contact time are diagnostic measurements rather than goals by themselves. Evaluate body, acidity, clarity and finish together, then make the smallest useful adjustment.

Whole-bean users can pair the Turin DF64 Gen 2 grinder with the Turin Legato espresso machine for repeatable espresso adjustments. A prepared espresso grind is convenient, but one fixed particle size cannot fit every basket and machine.

How to choose and evaluate this coffee

As an initial trial, an 18 g basket dose and about 36 g finished espresso provide a simple reference. Weigh the actual output and taste before adding milk. If the shot seems sharply acidic, work on even extraction before making a larger drink to dilute the problem.

For shared brewing, post the preferred dose and water weight beside the brewer. A repeatable baseline helps several people produce similar strength and makes feedback about acidity, body and finish more useful.

Record the coffee dose, water weight, grinder setting and total contact time for the first few brews. A short brew log is more useful than changing several variables from memory and makes later reordering easier.

Freshness, storage and repeatability

Taste the finished beverage in the cup and serving style you actually use. A profile that seems delicate black may work differently with milk, while a roast-forward coffee may become more balanced after modest dilution.

Prepared grinds offer convenience when the grind matches the intended method. Whole beans provide greater control over particle size and let the recipe respond to a different dripper, basket or batch volume.

Compare Mayfly Upland Colombia Medium-Dark Roast Coffee for another option from Mayfly Coffee. Browse the Specialty Coffee collection for additional origins, roasts, processes and flavored coffees.

Frequently asked questions

Ordering and shipping

This coffee ships directly from the roaster partner. Roasted coffee does not qualify for free shipping; shipping charges are set by the partner. Coffee orders are not eligible for returns or cancellations, so review the exact variant in the cart before checkout.

When the shipment arrives, retain the roaster label and record the selected format with the first brew. That detail makes recipe adjustments and reordering more reliable than relying on the product name alone.