Standard AeroPress brews can finish thin and sour, especially with lighter coffees. Flipping the brewer upside down fixes most of it. The grounds steep without dripping early, which pulls more sweetness and a heavier…
You finally got your light roast V60 tasting bright and clean. Then you opened a bag of medium roast, ran the same recipe, and the cup came out muddy and flat. The recipe didn’t…
A 250 g bag of Yirgacheffe sat on my counter last month, opened on a Tuesday. By Sunday the crema on my AeroPress had thinned, the jasmine note was nearly gone, and the cup…
The first sign isn’t taste. It’s the pour. That pencil-thin ribbon you used to lay onto the bloom now surges, sputters, surges again, and the Ethiopian you bought for its jasmine note tastes like…
Last Tuesday I weighed out 15 g of a washed Guji from Onyx, ran my usual medium-roast V60 recipe, and got back a cup that tasted thin, sour, and faintly salty. The beans weren’t…
A sour, thin AeroPress can be consistent with relatively low extraction, but sourness is not proof of one cause. Some coffees are naturally bright, and serving temperature changes perception. Treat taste as a clue:…
Most home brewers hit a wall somewhere around the second month. The bag tastes flat, or sharp, or just nothing like what the roaster promised on the label, and the obvious suspect is the…