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Panama Geisha Coffee Pour-Over Blockage: What to Do When Coffee Won't Flow Through?
Some friends asked FrontStreet Coffee, "You suggest a brewing time of 2 minutes, but I've found that after 2 minutes, there's still water accumulated in the filter cup!" This friend has most likely encountered a blockage phenomenon. Why does blockage occur? FrontStreet Coffee lists some common causes, such as issues with grind coarseness.
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What to Do When Pour-Over Coffee Extraction Gets Blocked? How to Handle Water Pooling?
"Flow restriction" is a necessary measure when fine powder blockage occurs during pour-over brewing. If not intercepted in time, the bitter, over-extracted taste will give you a terrifying "tongue experience." However, if we can predict the signs that this brewing session is likely to cause blockage before it happens...
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Why Does the Liquid in the Filter Cone Become Transparent During Extraction? How to Prevent Pour-Over Coffee Blockage?
Yesterday, while browsing the internet, FrontStreet Coffee came across an intriguing question with the exact title. To summarize what the original post meant—during the brewing process, the liquid in the filter cone should ideally be in a state covered by foam with relatively low transparency, as shown in the picture below. However, sometimes...
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What Causes Coffee Ground Blockage in Pour-Over Brewing? Why Use the Three-Stage Method? What's the Purpose of Flow Restriction?
When you notice hot water taking unusually long to permeate through the coffee grounds during brewing, and a significant amount of water remains in the filter even after exceeding most of the estimated brewing time, there's no doubt - you're experiencing a blockage! Without proper flow restriction, your coffee will likely develop some unexpected flavors!
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How to Predict and Prevent Water Pooling in Pour-Over Coffee
When water pooling occurs in pour-over coffee after finishing the pour, with the drain holes blocked by coffee grounds, the only remedy is to stop the extraction by removing the filter cup to avoid over-extraction. However, if you detect signs of water pooling before completing the pour, there are many more ways to save the brew, such as adjusting your pouring technique.
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How to Operate the Stirring Method for Iced Pour-Over? What Water Temperature, Ratio, and Grind Size Does Japanese-Style Iced Coffee Use?
As the climate warms and spring approaches, iced beverages gradually return to FrontStreet Coffee's focus. Customers seeking refreshment typically order iced drip, cold brew, iced Americano, and iced pour-over where they can select their preferred beans. FrontStreet Coffee has already shared numerous articles about iced pour-over techniques and has experimented extensively with various details.
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What Causes Pour-Over Coffee Blockage and Poor Water Flow? Why Shouldn't You Tap the Dripper? How Do Fine Particles Cause Coffee Over-Extraction?
Like FrontStreet Coffee, many friends develop a temporary "perfectionism" when brewing coffee! When they notice irregularities during the process, they always want to step in and "fix" them to make everything neat and tidy. For example, during the preparation steps before brewing coffee—wetting the filter paper! When the filter paper doesn't completely adhere to the dripper
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Suez Canal Blockade, Europe Faces Shortage of Robusta Coffee Beans for Instant Coffee!
Professional coffee knowledge exchange for more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) Robusta coffee prices rebounded from two-week lows as the market expects this Suez Canal blockade to further hinder shipping that was already in a severe bottleneck period. On March 26, Robusta coffee for May futures contracts rose 2.8%, the highest since March 9.
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Suez Canal Blockage and Shipping Container Shortage May Cause Global Arabica Coffee Bean Prices to Soar
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). According to Bloomberg, coffee supply in the United States is shrinking while wholesale prices are soaring. The global shipping container shortage has already impacted food trade, and the heavily affected markets are preparing for further impacts. Despite Brazil's record coffee production in 2020, the US
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意式咖啡机蒸汽为什么越来越弱？蒸汽堵了怎么办？如何清洗咖啡机？
众所周知，咖啡机的蒸汽功能主要用于加热牛奶和打发奶泡。蒸汽的强弱决定了打发奶泡的时间，蒸汽越强，牛奶升温越快，打发时间也大大缩短，反之亦然。最近，有不少朋友发现，家里的咖啡机使用一段时间后，蒸汽强度会有所减弱。
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How to Use a Coffee Shower Dripper? Will Strong Water Flow Cause Blockage When Pour-Over Brewing? How to Use the Stirring Method?
Many novice coffee brewers, when starting to learn coffee brewing, often struggle to control the water flow, resulting in injected hot water having excessive penetrating power! Excessive penetration greatly increases turbulence effects, which easily causes fine coffee grounds to be carried to the bottom by the water flow, blocking the filter paper, ultimately causing the coffee to become over-extracted due to excessive extraction time.
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What to Do When Your Coffee Grinder Gets Stuck? How to Fix an Espresso Grinder That Won't Dispense Coffee? Espresso Grinder Adjustment Logic!
"Dialing in espresso" is a workflow that gives every morning shift barista a headache. The difficulty of grinder adjustment doesn't entirely depend on the barista's experience level, but also on the condition of the beans and weather conditions. Even an experienced coffee veteran with years in the industry sometimes spends significant time on grinder adjustments due to these factors.
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Can This Little Brewing Gadget Really Make Coffee Taste Better? How Lily Drip Affects Coffee Extraction
Pour-over coffee has long become part of most people's daily routine, and for brewing equipment that can potentially go wrong, numerous "auxiliary tools" have emerged to assist us. Today, FrontStreet Coffee brings you one of these interesting little gadgets – the LilyDrip. But who would have thought that this cone-shaped aid
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How to Use a Coffee Grinder Sieve? How to Use a Sieve? What Are the Requirements for Grind Size in Pour-Over Coffee?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). How to use a coffee grinder sieve? How to use a sieve? What are the requirements for grind size? Using a sieve to improve the quality of pour-over coffee. Grinding coffee is to increase the speed of coffee extraction. Different extractions
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Should You Sieve Out Fine Particles When Brewing Pour-Over Coffee? What Size of Coffee Grounds Are Considered Extra Fine? What Is the Role of Fine Particles?
It wasn't until the moment brewing became clogged that people recalled the fear of being dominated by fine particles! "Flow restriction," as a well-known technique to avoid bitterness, has everything to do with fine particles. When fine particles cause clogging during brewing, if flow restriction isn't applied in time, then
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What Does Flow Restriction Mean in Pour-Over Coffee? What's the Purpose of Flow Restriction in Drip Coffee? What's the Difference Between Coffee-to-Water Ratio and Coffee-to-Brewed-Liquid Ratio?
In the coffee brewing process, the practice of removing the filter cup while there's still liquid that hasn't fully permeated through is what we call "flow restriction." Since flow restriction removes the final portion of coffee liquid, and many coffee enthusiasts believe that bitterness comes from this final portion, this technique has become
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Analysis of Slow Pour-Over Coffee Flow Rate: What to Do When Coffee Won't Drain Properly?
Pour-over coffee, as a representative of drip extraction, can be seen as a process where water is first poured into coffee grounds, allowing the water to pass through the coffee layer and flow into the lower pot. With the assistance of an electronic scale, we can effectively control the pouring time. However, the total time for water to flow into the lower pot is affected by factors such as the grind size of the coffee grounds and the water absorption of the particles
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Can the Lily drip really make pour-over coffee taste better? How to use the Lily pearls - a tool for pour-over coffee? Can V60 drippers also use flat-bottom filters?
The pour-over coffee brewing process has a certain visual appeal that often attracts many friends to stop and watch. Among them is a young girl named Lily, who enjoys watching her father brew coffee. Until one day, in a playful mood, she suddenly had an idea and placed a glass marble into the cone-shaped filter
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What is a Coffee Powder Bed, and How to Raise the Powder Bed in Pour-Over Coffee: Causes of Under-Extraction
In FrontStreet Coffee's articles, you'll often find the term "raising the powder bed." Many readers wonder how to raise the powder bed and why it's necessary. In the final stages of pour-over coffee brewing, sometimes coffee grounds accumulate heavily in the center of the filter, sinking to the bottom and causing "flooding" in the brewing process.
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Does Tapping the Dripper Affect Coffee Extraction?
A single coffee bean is composed of various flavor compounds, including acidity, sweetness, bitterness, aroma, and more, each dissolving at different rates—some quickly, others slowly. To achieve a pot of coffee that captures all these delightful flavors without exhibiting the negative taste of over-extraction, we draw upon our previous brewing experience, perfecting the "fundamentals"
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