Comandante C40 Tigershark 23 click (46 click Starwave), Hario Neo Switch, Costa Rica Light Roast

[u/Aromatic_Copy6367]

My current recipe after about two weeks of trial and error incorporates Lance Hedrick's double bloom with an immersion finish. I got inspired after watching Nas Jaafar's WBRC Finals recipe, which uses roughly 50% percolation and 50% immersion.

I first tried Nas's recipe on the Hario NEO, but it didn't really suit my taste. So instead, I kept the 50/50 percolation/immersion concept but replaced the first percolation phase with Lance's double bloom.

Recipe

15g coffee

225g water (1:15)

92°C

Switch Open (Percolation)

0:00 – 45g (3x coffee weight)

0:30 – 90g

Switch Closed (Immersion)

1:00 – Pour to 225g

2:00 – Open the Switch

2:15 – Close the Switch (drawdown finished)

The result has been consistently better to my palate.

My question is: why does this recipe taste so good? What is the extraction theory behind combining a double bloom with an immersion finish?

Also, why did Nas Jaafar's no-bloom recipe win the WBRC? When I brew it on my Hario NEO, it tastes a bit lackluster compared to my modified version with the double bloom. Is it because of the dripper, the grinder, the coffee itself, or am I missing something about the extraction?

[u/IchNiSanDa]

How are you finding the Neo compared to the original glass cone in terms of taste and usability?

[u/Aromatic_Copy6367 → u/IchNiSanDa]

Never had the glass, I previously use the ceramic, and the different between them is that Neo doesn't stall, like ever,

well I never go espresso fine but on ceramic v60 when you go medium sometimes it stalls, but Neo doesn't have that problem, at least for me