Foundations
Grind, temperature, ratio, bloom, pour, time, tasting. Seven levers, one cup — plus the brewer you pull them on. Every recipe you follow is a snapshot of where someone parked these. Learn how each one moves the cup and you stop chasing recipes, you start adjusting them.
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9- How to make pour-over coffee Pour-over becomes repeatable when you control a few variables and let taste guide the final adjustment. This guide gives you one dependable starting recipe, explains what each choice changes, and shows you how to correct the next brew without changing everything at once. Intro 8 min
- Grind size The first lever, and the biggest one. Before water temperature, before ratio, before pour technique — the grind decides how fast water can pull flavor out of the bed. Move it and everything else follows. Intro 3 min
- Water temperature Hotter water pulls flavor faster. That's the whole rule. Everything else is matching the temperature to what you have in the bag. Intro 2 min
- Coffee to water A ratio is two numbers: how much coffee, how much water. Read 1:16 as one gram of coffee for every sixteen grams of water. Lower numbers mean stronger coffee. Intro 2 min
- The bloom Fresh coffee holds CO₂ from roasting. If you pour the full brew at once, that gas pushes water away and the extraction goes patchy. The bloom is a small first pour that lets the gas vent before the real work starts. Intro 2 min
- Pour technique How the water enters the bed is half the recipe. Same coffee, same grind, same ratio — three pour techniques give you three different cups. Intro 2 min
- Stages of a brew Every pour-over is four phases, in the same order, every time. Knowing what each phase does is the difference between following a recipe and reading what's happening in front of you. Intro 2 min
- Brewer families Brewers split into three families by how water meets coffee. Each family has a character. Knowing which family you're using tells you what kind of cup to expect — and which mistakes are easy to make. Intro 2 min
- Read the cup Your tongue is the most accurate diagnostic tool you'll ever own. The hard part isn't tasting — it's naming what you taste, and knowing which lever to move next. Intro 2 min