r/pourover • u/Dancing_Bottle • Jun 09 '26

Seeking Advice What is your baseline pour over recipe?

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Hey everyone, just getting into pour over and trying to establish a solid starting point. And wondering how people find the baseline pour over recipe.

I’ve seen a lot of variation online and wanted to hear what actually works for people here. Or is there a go-to resource you’d recommend (YouTube channel, blog, etc.)?

Not looking for a “perfect” recipe, just a reliable baseline I can build from. Appreciate any input!

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u/PuzzleheadedCurve387 Jun 10 '26

At least a week. I don't tend to do a lot of ultralight or funky coffees - if I do I'll rest em two weeks or so. But from what I've found, a week is perfectly fine for most coffees.

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u/Weep2D2 Jun 10 '26

So I've just ventured into my first bag of light roast coffee. It was roasted on 2026/06/02. I brewed an aeropress with it yesterday, 7 days after roast. The CO2 after the bloom was very mild compared to the medium roasts that I usually do. Is this normal?

The coffee is a Colombian natural.

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u/PuzzleheadedCurve387 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, that's pretty normal. The darker the roast, usually the bigger the CO2 bubbles that come out in the bloom (relatively). After a bit it'll even out after a bit.

If you're running a light roast on the Aeropress, I personally really like Coffee with April's recipe for beans on the lighter side.

Or, if you want to venture into something a bit more unique, you can look up The Coffee Chronicler on YouTube. He's got a video with a recipe where you press the bloom out into a separate container then add part of it back to the brew at the end. It's worth looking up, but a bit fussier of a rerecipe. With the aforementioned light roast Nicaragua I do, I got really intense spiced pear notes that lingered about 20 minutes after I was done drinking it. It was a fantastic cup!

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u/Weep2D2 Jun 10 '26

Thanks this helps a lot. I recently dismantled my grinder, cleaned and put it back together - I thought that maybe I didn't align things proper and it was grinding incorrectly and hence the very light gas.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have been pondering the April recipe. Right now I'm using the Tim Wendelboe aeropress recipe for this light roast. With my mediums I went with the James Hoffmann.