Pour Over Coffee Bean to Water Ratio - Freshly Ground Coffee Beans and Water Ratio

FrontStreet Coffee · Pour-Over Coffee Bean to Water Ratio - Freshly Ground Coffee Bean to Water Ratio

I've seen some friends suggest buying pre-ground coffee directly, but personally, I recommend that people in large and medium-sized cities buy relatively fresh coffee beans and grind them themselves if conditions allow. To make a delicious cup of coffee, the most fundamental requirement is to have fresh, high-quality coffee beans.

Key Elements for Perfect Pour-Over Coffee

Coffee Grinder: Invest in a good quality manual grinder to ensure uniform coffee grounds. If the grounds are uneven, the resulting coffee won't taste "pure." Because of different surface areas, in the same amount of time, hot water extracts much less flavor from coarser grounds than from fine grounds. When the extraction time perfectly extracts the "good flavors" from the coarse grounds, the fine grounds have already been over-extracted—producing some undesirable flavors. The main purpose of pour-over single-origin coffee is to taste the original flavor of the coffee and amplify certain characteristics of the coffee's natural taste for detailed appreciation. Therefore, we should ensure even extraction rather than a mixture of various flavors.

Water: Nowadays, everyone pays attention to using soft water for drinking, and soft water produces better pour-over coffee texture. Water temperature should be between 85-95°C. Too high a temperature will cause burnt flavors in the coffee, while too low a temperature creates unpleasant acidity (properly brewed coffee will also have a subtle acidity, but this acidity is pleasant, like light fruit acidity).

Cup Warming: Pay attention to warming your cups. All equipment used during the pour-over process should maintain temperature to ensure a warmer, smoother coffee texture.

Pour-Over Kettle: The gooseneck kettle used for pour-over can be purchased as a specialized tool, or you can substitute with common vessels as long as they can produce a fine, stable water flow. Of course, heat preservation is also important.

Coffee to Water Ratio: Based on my experience, a ratio of 15 grams of coffee grounds to 250 milliliters of water is quite suitable.

Standard Brewing Ratios

• 1 cup (5 ounces of finished coffee) = 160ml water (9g drip coffee)
• 2 cups (10 ounces of finished coffee) = 321ml water (18g drip coffee)
• 3 cups (12 ounces of finished coffee) = 482ml water (27g drip coffee)

(For this pour-over operation, we used 18g coffee grounds; 321g drinking water; 32g water for pre-infusion)

Brewing Steps

1. Fold the Filter Paper:

Take a "Melitta Size 4 filter paper," which has one side and the bottom mechanically pressed and thicker. (Filter paper selection: filters come in different sizes, choose according to your selected filter holder. They also come in bleached and original pulp versions—choose according to your preference.) Open the switch on the brewer, place the filter holder over the coffee pot, and pour hot water into the brewer to wet the filter paper. Afterward, drain the hot water and close the switch.

Note: The purpose of wetting the filter paper is not only to make it adhere to the cup walls but also to wash away the "paper pulp taste" of the filter, so please open the switch to perform the filter paper wetting action.

(The water temperature range for pour-over coffee can be 85-93°C, but different water temperatures will definitely produce very different tastes. Different beans and different roast levels require different water temperatures. You'll need to adjust to find the most suitable water temperature for yourself.)

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