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What to do if your pour-over coffee is too sour, too bitter, too strong, too weak, too astringent, too complex, too burnt, or tastes terrible?
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Pour-over coffee is an experimental science. Although results cannot be completely predicted through theory, theoretical knowledge can improve brewing accuracy and summarize all possible situations.
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What to Do When Pour-Over Coffee Is Too Strong or Too Weak? What's the Ideal Concentration for Mandheling Coffee?
Coffee that's too strong can cause discomfort, while coffee that's too weak tastes no different from water. What people jokingly call "pot scrubber water" is actually coffee that's too weak due to improper extraction diluted with too much water. In pour-over coffee, the simplest way to change coffee concentration is to adjust the coffee-to-water ratio. If you want stronger coffee, you can use less
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[Image] What to Do When Pour-Over Coffee is Too Bitter? Why Do Coffee Beans Have a Bitter and Astringent Taste?
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Recently, some friends asked FrontStreet Coffee: "I often make pour-over coffee too bitter at home, how can I fix this?" Today, FrontStreet Coffee will explain the reasons why coffee turns out bitter and how to avoid it! Reason One: The flavor profile of the coffee beans themselves tends toward bitterness. Coffee beans have many types of flavor profiles, including fruity acidic coffees, honey-like sweetness
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What is the Ratio for Italian-Style Americano Coffee? How to Make a Delicious Concentrated Americano Coffee?
Starting a refined day for office workers often requires only a simple cup of coffee. But what to drink also requires some consideration. Pour-over coffee takes too much time. A latte has too much milk and can be too heavy. Espresso is too bitter, and you don't want to compound that bitterness. When all else fails, there's only the Americano - espresso mixed with water. A delicious
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Coffee Latte Art Tips Sharing: Simple Heart Coffee Latte Art Tutorial for Beginners
For more professional coffee knowledge and coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). For many coffee enthusiasts who have just entered the world of coffee, latte art is truly fascinating! It might look quite simple, with just a casual pour creating a small heart, tulip, or other designs.
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How to Extract a Balanced Espresso? Why Doesn't Your Espresso Taste Good?
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). While previous articles mentioned the basic sequence of espresso coffee extraction, in reality, the contents within the coffee grounds are extracted simultaneously. Acidity, sweetness, saltiness, bitterness, astringency, oils, various aromas, and mouthfeel are all released at the same time, just that the substances within
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Drip Bag Coffee Brewing Principles and Details
For professional barista exchanges, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account: cafe_style). To brew perfect drip bags, please read the following instructions carefully: Coffee extraction principles are as follows: Higher water temperature: coffee becomes stronger and more bitter, too high will cause burnt and astringent tastes Lower water temperature: coffee becomes lighter and more acidic Smaller water flow: coffee becomes stronger, too small will cause
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Coffee Grind Size Chart: Visual Guide to Grind Coarseness Standards - Differences Between Moka Pot and Espresso Bean Grind Sizes, Ratios, and Extraction Times
For professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (official account: cafe_style). The coarseness of coffee grounds determines how much and how quickly coffee components are released during brewing. Generally speaking, coffee grind coarseness can be divided into: coarse grind, medium grind, medium-fine grind, fine grind, and extremely
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What is Coffee Over-Extraction? How to Judge Under-Extraction vs Over-Extraction and Their Effects on Coffee Flavor
Extraction: The process of extracting compounds from raw materials, such as drawing flavor compounds from coffee beans using hot water. Over-extraction occurs when coffee grounds remain in contact with hot water for too long, extracting undesirable compounds along with desirable ones, resulting in bitter, harsh flavors.
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What Causes Water Accumulation in the Portafilter Basket After Espresso Extraction and How to Solve It
A friend with an espresso machine asked FrontStreet Coffee, "I've been encountering an issue when extracting espresso recently. After extraction, when I remove the portafilter, I notice water accumulation in the basket, and the extracted coffee puck isn't intact—it's quite wet?" He then mentioned, "At first, I thought the coffee grounds were too fine, so I adjusted the grinder to a coarser setting, but still..."
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Why Can't I Taste the Flavors in Pour-Over Coffee? The Pour-Over Coffee Process! How to Extract Coffee Flavors? What's the Best Coffee-to-Water Ratio for Pour-Over? Do Single-Origin Coffee Beans Need Aging?
When we're learning pour-over coffee, we often encounter various challenges. For example, FrontStreet Coffee frequently shares common issues such as coffee with pronounced bitter and mixed flavors, sharp acidity, or a watery texture with thin mouthfeel. Today, FrontStreet Coffee will share another problem that beginners often face, but this time
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Causes of Fast Pour-Over Coffee Flow Rate and Solutions: What to Do When Anaerobic Coffee Beans Drain Too Quickly
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). My pour-over coffee is filtering too slowly/too quickly. What should I do? If the water flows through the grounds too quickly, your grind might be too coarse. There's too much space for water to flow around the coffee
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How is Coffee Latte Art Made? Why Are Coffee Latte Art Patterns Too Small? How to Froth Milk for Italian Latte Art?
Although latte art doesn't emphasize beauty in size, a full pattern clearly has more visual impact. Therefore, when many bloggers teach latte art, they emphasize not only centering the pattern but also making it as large as possible, meaning full and well-developed. This is also a challenge that many beginners face—their latte art
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Seven Major Factors Affecting Pour-Over Coffee_How Much Impact Do Coffee Beans Have on Pour-Over Coffee
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) For a long time the several variable factors affecting pour-over coffee have been divided into: 1. Pour-over coffee beans ; 2. Grind size; 3. Water; 4. Equipment; 5. Bloom time; Pour-over coffee beans Choosing coffee beans that suit your personal taste is an important standard that determines whether your cup of pour-over coffee will be delicious
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Fine or Medium Grind for Pour-Over Coffee? What to Do When Your Coffee Is Ground Too Coarse? How Coarse Should Faqia Coffee Be Ground and How to Brew It?
Let me see, who forgot to adjust the grind setting before grinding their coffee beans, resulting in a grind size that doesn't belong to those beans? Oh, it was me, never mind then! FrontStreet Coffee believes that many friends occasionally encounter this situation in their daily routine - forgetting to adjust the grinder's setting, which leads to
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Espresso Making: Coffee Grind Fineness - A Guide to Espresso Ground Size
First, tamping pressure is not the condition for adjusting grind fineness. Tamping pressure should remain relatively consistent. After adjusting the grind size, you may appropriately modify the tamping pressure slightly—increasing it (when the grind is made slightly coarser) or decreasing it (when the grind is made slightly finer)—to optimize the extracted coffee flavor.
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How Many Milliliters in a Shot of Espresso - Common Espresso Extraction Problems and Correct Methods
Professional coffee knowledge exchange. For more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style). Common espresso extraction problems include over-extraction. First, it's essential to understand the concept of extraction rate. According to
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Why Does Pour-Over Coffee Have a Bitter Taste? Coffee Bean Roast Level and Brewing Techniques Causing Coffee's Astringency
Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information Please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account cafe_style) Introduction Teacher Huanai Han once said: "Coffee oils and colloids create a smooth mouthfeel in the mouth, while coffee's polyphenol compounds produce a rough astringency, like having a devil's tail, running wild in the mouth, creating discomfort." If in wine
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How to Adjust Pour-Over Coffee When It's Too Sour or Bitter? What Causes Overextraction in Black Coffee?
In the cupping and tasting system, if a coffee's acidity, sweetness, flavor characteristics, cleanliness, mouthfeel, and aftertaste are all perceived as harmonious, then its balance must be high. This also indicates that the coffee bean's quality is excellent, ultimately earning a remarkable score. When it comes to the brewing process,
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How Tightly Should Coffee Grounds Be Tamped When Making Coffee-What Happens if Coffee Grounds Are Tamped Too Tightly
How Tightly Should Coffee Grounds Be Tamped When Making Coffee-What Happens if Coffee Grounds Are Tamped Too Tightly? Grind settings are just reference points - different brands have different grind settings, and even grinders of the same brand and model don't perform identically at the same setting. It's better to understand this way: grind settings merely indicate which direction is coarse and which direction is fine.
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