Coffee ☕️

A good tasting coffee makes all the difference.

Dialing

When coffee tastes bad, change one or more of these factors. It may take several attempts to get it right.

• Change to a new coffee matching your preferred flavour in the flavour wheel ¹
• Grind size
  • Get a good burr grinder! ^{2 3}
• Water temperature
  • higher for light roasts; lower for dark roasts
  • even a +/- 5f adjustment can make a difference
• Coffee to water ratio

Brew methods

How I typically make coffee:

Inverted Aeropress recipe

• Invert the Aeropress
• Add 10g ⁴ of coffee
• Water temp at 175f-190f (depends on beans)
• Pour about 40g, and stir for ~25 seconds
• Pour rest, total 100g.
• Brew until 1m 25s
• Press for ~30seconds
• Add ~35g of hot water to brewed coffee.

Kalita Wave 155 recipe

• 10g of coffee
• 185-194f water temp (depends on beans)
• 35g pour, wait 35 secs.
• Pour rest, total 135g. Wait till water comes through.

iDrinkCoffee beans

Ongoing review of beans from iDrinkCoffee, my preferred supplier of beans due to consistent freshness.

Legend: <water-temp>f; <comandante-grind>c; <coffee-weight>g:<water-weight>g = <total-coffee>g

Learnings / experimentation

• More coffee doesn’t impact sleep when fasting during the day (ie. OMAD close to bed time)
• Eating (creamy) butter in between cups helps ‘reset’ taste receptor.
  • Though eating a meal is ideal.
• Roast coffee myself