Pour-Over Recipe for Medium Roast: Adjusting From a Light Roast Dial-In
You finally got your light roast V60 tasting bright and clean. Then you opened a bag of medium roast and it brewed muddy, bitter, and flat. The recipe did not break — the beans…
You finally got your light roast V60 tasting bright and clean. Then you opened a bag of medium roast and it brewed muddy, bitter, and flat. The recipe did not break — the beans…
You opened a beautiful 340 g bag of fresh roast last Tuesday. By Sunday the crema is thin, the aroma is flat, and the cup tastes like cardboard. The beans aren’t bad — they’re…
Your pour stream used to be a pencil-thin ribbon you could place exactly on the bloom. Now it surges, sputters, and your once-bright Ethiopian tastes flat. Before you re-dial the grinder, look inside your…
You brewed a $22 bag of Ethiopian light roast, followed a YouTube recipe, and got something thin, sour, and a little salty. The beans aren’t broken. Your V60 recipe is tuned for medium roast,…
Your AeroPress cup tastes like lemon juice and green apple skin, and not in the good way. That sharp, puckering bite is the most common AeroPress mistake, and it almost always points to one…
Your pour-over tastes thin, sour, or weirdly bitter — and you suspect it’s the beans. It’s usually not. Nine times out of ten, the problem is grind size, water temperature, or pour rate. Fix…