So, there’s one day left before the AP Championship heat in Birmingham. Taken a days leave from work, and so today is the day I finalise my approach. Got water mixes, got my grinders, and my methods. Time to finally decide.

Brewed a lovely Colombian anaerobic washed obligon from Formative Coffee. Very fruit forward, with a sweet bitterness that comes from blood oranges. Brewed using the Hario Switch and ground using Comandante Lab Series Tigershark (24 clicks). Bought it when I went to the London Coffee Festival and have had the patience to leave it. Apart from brewing their AeroPress competition coffee and their Pink Starburst (which didn’t last long), pleased to say am enjoying the coffees roasted by them. Anyone tried any of their other coffees?

So, there was a buzz about Tetsu’s new 10 pour recipe, and well, as much as we bemoan this as a trolling I was still keen to give it a go. I mean, why the hell not right!
So, not having a Gesha ready, took a chance with a Rwandan Kinini Anaerobic from Rave Coffee (blackcurrant, black tea, and agave notes). Well, this produced a juicy cuppa, like a coffee infused Ribena. A little bitterness from the tea-like tannin, but still predominantly sweet.

I changed the ratio as I prefer a 1:17, which resulted in 34g pours. TDT 2:27.

Will this be a daily go to? Probably not, but maybe lazy weekends.

The London Coffee Festival. First Coffee Festival (not last) and I’d like to think I’ve come away with a banger of treasure. Met some lovely people from Skylark Coffee, Hermanos Colombian Coffee, Manhattan Coffee Roasters, Sheep Mai Mai, Origin Coffee Roasters (for the brew school), Indy Coffee Guide Scenery Coffee Roasters (coffee at my partners house) and lastly Formative Coffee (who have cheered me on my path to the AeroPress Championship heats, no bias, just genuinely supportive). What a great event, deffo back next year. Oh, and need a bigger bag next time!

Having just played a game I was really enjoying my build and wondered if there could be a feature and possible game mode where you can save your Tech build and then continue to use this in an arena horde mode style game. You don’t earn resource points so this doesn’t affect the meta progression for the main game, and this Tech build only gets used in the mode. They could limit it to max 1000 components, so as not to potentially cause game issues and crashes. It could be called something like Engineered Survivor mode. Or hear me out, a multiplayer battle arena mode. Winner gets to harvest parts of the down Tech, which become trophies mounted to their own Techs.

Pics are of a build I was enjoying. The final boss got glitched into part of the terrain, so I just took on the ADS and was levelling up and adding to my build. Crazy by the way, the game will eventually fill the battle arena zone with tons of large Stompers and the Metal Gear Solid styled Walker Cannons. Never stood a chance. But an arena horde mode I think might be cool.

Thoughts??

My first rig on survivor mode. Managed to get to lvl 30.