Remind me to never drink coffee outside my house again. I paid $10 for a "hand pour" coffee from a famous roaster, only to get perhaps 250 or 300ml of liquid coffee in a carafe that had stains at the bottom. If I can buy a Sey box for $30 with 250g of beans, I can generate a whole lot of coffee and have a lot more satisfaction. Quick math - 300g coffee at 1:17 ratio (fancy Scandinavian-style) is ~18g grounds, giving me about 13 cups. At Dayglow, that would be about $130... and I clean my decanters.
The Bloomingdale Trail/606 is a nice trail, but Dayglow isn't even a sterile "4th-wave" cafe like advertised (to be honest, my source is one guy on Reddit). It is way-far-out cafe for hipsters in the ground floor of the "Kimball Arts Center."
Sometimes, I feel like I am chasing this satisfaction from coffee that I will never get. Almost every time I buy a pour over, I always think "was this really worth how much I paid for it?" The answer is usually no. I'd be happier if I just ordered a cup of drip coffee. I did that a week or two ago and it was fine, and I spent like three-something on the cup. It was good! I was happy and remember that cup of coffee fondly.
As for the coffee itself, I do not remember what the notes Dayglow had listed were, and the notes Nomad lists online clash with my memory. It was acidic, had a bit of grapefruit going on, maybe grapefruit peel, and had some juiciness. Good, but maybe I should have just got whatever they had on drip!
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