CAFFEINE 142 mg
DOSE 18.2 g
YIELD 36 g
TIME 27 s
WATER 94.0 C
SERVED BLACK ONLY
VOLTAGE
BODY
SWEETNESS
RUNTIME NOTE: drink fast. it does not wait for you.
EST. HOLD TIME: 2.4s / SKIPPABLE BY FATE ONLY
SECTOR 7 NIGHT MARKET · OPEN 20:00-06:00
NOX is a nocturnal specialty coffee lab. Roasted after dark, extracted under neon, served until sunrise.
nox@sector7:~$ run roast.profiler --live
Drag the signal between our four house roasts. The scope morphs in real time. So does the cup.
ACIDITY
72
BODY
58
SWEETNESS
74
DROP TEMP 204 C
DEV TIME 21 %
ACTIVE: NIGHT SHIFT
Our daily driver. Balanced sweetness with enough acidity to keep you honest through a long shift.
Ten hours of uptime, every night. This is what the machine room is actually doing.
The 03:00 slow bar seats six. It is the quietest room in Sector 7 and we intend to keep it that way.
$ nox trace --route yirgacheffe/nox
resolving origin ... GEDEB, ETHIOPIA
HOP 01 GEDEB WASHING STATION ....... [OK] 1840m ASL
HOP 02 ADDIS ABABA DRY MILL ........ [OK] 12ms
HOP 03 DJIBOUTI PORT UPLINK ........ [OK] 34ms
HOP 04 SUEZ RELAY .................. [OK] 61ms
HOP 05 SECTOR 7 CUSTOMS NODE ....... [OK] 87ms
HOP 06 NOX ROAST DECK .............. [LOCKED] 0.4ms
route complete. 9,412 km. one exporter, zero mystery.
One washing station, one exporter, one roast deck. We buy the whole lot from the Gedeb valley every season and publish the route because supply chains love the dark more than we do.
We roast at 22:00 because the city is quieter and the beans do not care about business hours. Neither do the people we pour for: couriers, coders, night nurses, and whatever you are.
Seven cameras run all night. Six of them behave.
The night list gets the singles drop at 00:00, first call on slow bar seats, and nothing else. We do not send newsletters. We send coordinates.