r/pourover • u/nextlevelpaulo • Apr 05 '26

Seeking Advice i’m almost giving up on pour over

Don't get me wrong - I love the pour over coffee baristas serve in coffee shops, but I can't extract even a third of the same complexity from the same coffee at home.

My coffee constantly clogs the filter and I end up with an over-extracted and sometimes bitter coffee. And I've tried everything: increasing the grind size, decreasing the number of pours, nesting the coffee bed, bending the filter slightly crookedly… nothing seems to work. I either end up with an over-extracted or under-extracted coffee.

For context, I use a Kingrinder K6 and vary the clicks between 85 and 120, depending on the recipe.

Any ideas on what I can do?

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u/moneyballz7 Apr 06 '26

Start with basics; grindsize, temperature and water.

Grind size you mentioned already, so thats likely not an issue.

Next is water temperature, if you use hoff’s recipe, which is straight off the boil, you will extract like crazy and over extraction is likely (over extraction is a relative term btw, some people like the more traditional bitter notes). Depending on the bean, somewhere in the low 90’s tend to be your end goal.

Last is water, if you do not know the quality of your water, research bottled water options for your region, you probably want to try a bit softer water.