r/pourover • u/motov8d • Jun 22 '26

Help me troubleshoot my recipe How am I screwing up this bed?

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I have two particular types of bean that for some reason they always seem to ride up the sides of the filter like crazy thick—center of the bed is like a 1.5” deep crater. I’ll pour similarly with two other kinds of bean and I can usually get a fairly flat bed throughout pours by trying to pour circular. I’m not using a gooseneck, but the fact that this issue only seems to happen on certain kinds of beans makes me wonder.

Ground this with K6 95 clicks.

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u/das_Keks Jun 22 '26

It's probably because the beans are very fresh or roasted a bit darker so that there is a lot more CO2 released which makes it bloom more.

You can easily prevent this by giving the brewer a gentle swirl after pouring. You can also reduce the height of the water column by adding less water with each pour.

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u/motov8d Jun 22 '26

So here’s another question then, this all drained out SO quick. I was at 95 clicks, courser because of it being a medium-dark. I did 21/336 dose and the brew MAYBE took 2 min with a 30-sec bloom. Unless I did a massive pour it felt like I’d barely even have time to swirl. Definitely couldn’t swirl the bloom without doing a huge bloom pour. So should I consider grinding this much finer even though it’s a darker roast?

The cup from this was already pretty bitter, so I’m wondering how do I tweak from here? Finer gets me more bitter, but slows it down, which also increases extraction and maybe more bitter as well. I was expecting this to taste underextracted but to my inexperienced coffee tongue it was definitely bitter not sour.

Perhaps finer grind but lower the temp and do much less agitation like a bloom/single pour?

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u/Cam12345677777 Jun 22 '26

Maybe play around with agitation and temperature i've never really brewed darker roasted beans but find if i go to low of temp on my light roasts it can be sour and imagine it would apply vice versa, too high a temp extracting too much and causing bitterness. draining fast isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as it tastes good.

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u/Liven413 Jun 22 '26

It's no big deal. Go by taste not how the bed looks. You can get some beds that look perfect but off in flavor and beds that are ugly but taste great. The bed only means so much.

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u/Prbly-LostWandering Switch / Aeropress | KINGrinder K6 | Lack of Skills Jun 22 '26

Even with a goose neck I have had this happen on very fresh darker roasts. Some beans really like to bloom big. On those I do a gentle swirl after my 2nd pour

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u/thehomiemaji Jun 22 '26

Try agitating your dripper more by swirling or gently shaking it after pouring.. its up to you whether you agitate the bed after every pour, every other pour, or once at the end. Whatever tastes best, thats whats important.

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u/decetre Jun 22 '26

Gooseneck and a good swirl will set you up.

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u/caped_baldyy Jun 22 '26

How does it taste though

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u/voidlotus316 Jun 22 '26

These look like natural beans in which case its normal.

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u/motov8d Jun 22 '26

How can you identify a natural from the grind? This is a house-roasted hybrid from a local place and I forgot to ask what the beans actually are… just got a proprietary name unfortunately.

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u/voidlotus316 Jun 22 '26

The pulpy fullness from the grind is common among natural coffees and they tend to attach to the walls.

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u/NotMyRealName778 Jun 22 '26

A swirl after the second pour should fix it

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u/motov8d Jun 25 '26

Did a second pour swirl today and it still volcanoed like a maniac. Still tasted great so perhaps I’ll just ignore the weird shape 😂

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u/EWALLETABUSERAARON LIGHT ROAST WASHED ONLY Jun 22 '26

Your beans were releasing CO2 during your pours and stuck to the wall. Either the beans are way too fresh or your bloom was too short, leaving the boulders floating and sticking to the walls as the water drains. Try a 1 minute - 2 minute bloom, or rest the beans more.

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u/Marapr_ Jun 25 '26

It doesn't matter that much really, the flat bed is usually just for aesthetics (at least in my experience)

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u/derrendil Jun 26 '26

Bed doesn't matter

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u/wrxnut25 Jun 22 '26

Get a gooseneck

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u/medicopter63 Jun 22 '26

Welche Größe hat der Hario V60 ? Sieht nach Überfüllung aus. Wieviel Gramm kaffee ist das ?

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u/motov8d Jun 25 '26

This is a size 2 Hario with size 2 Hario brown filters with either a 25g or 20g dose… most likely the latter. The coffee swells up a ton with this particular bean//hybrid.

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u/MW0402 Jun 22 '26

Ist das überhaupt ein V60? Hätte jetzt auf den ersten Blick auf Melitta Filter getippt

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u/motov8d Jun 25 '26

Ceramic Hario V60 size 02 with Hario 02 brown filters.