How much coffee and water?

General Rule: Start with 15:1 (water:coffee), adjust from there to preference.

Example:

Standard cup 18g of coffee and 270g of water.

How Hot?

Medium roasts and light roasts I brew at about 185℉, coffee tastes best to drink at 135℉.

How Long?

Total brew time of 3 minutes. With 30 seconds at the start for brew time.

Grinding Notes:

With most coffees I start at around salt sized grind and adjust from there to match the desired brew time. If it brews too fast, go finer. Too slow? Then grind corser.

Steps:

1. Heat the water (185℉, if you don’t have a thermometer then boil it and remove from heat for 30 seconds).
2. Put the filter in the cone, and rinse it.
3. Add the coffee to the filter. Tap side to settle it.
4. Bloom the coffee (Add twice the amount of water by weight as you are brewing coffee).
5. Wait 30 seconds, optionally you can stir it during the bloom to be sure you get all of it wet.
6. Add water, starting from the center and wetting evenly.
   1. First 2 pours to about half the total desired amount.
   2. Then the remainder in 2 – 4 additional pours
   3. Example, for 18g of coffee: 70g, wait (until it moves mostly through), 70g, wait, 65g, wait, 65g. Will get you a total added water of 270g.
7. Ideally stop at 3 minutes and your expected total weight. Make a note of what you might need to adjust to get to the desired time and weights.
8. Wait for it to cool to drinking temp.
9. Enjoy.
   1. Make note of if you need to adjust how extracted it is for next time. If it’s sour, it’s probably under extracted, if it’s bitter it’s probably over extracted.

Adjustment Notes:

Hotter brew water temps will increase extraction. Finer grinds will increase extraction. Use this info to adjust your brew to match the coffee.