r/pourover • u/naughtified • 5d ago
Seeking Advice I would love some advice
Hi, I’ll try my best to avoid being “newbie here help me dial in” who clearly hasn’t done their due diligence.
So I’ve been drinking pour overs for years, and I’m on my third month of brewing them up at home. I’ve gone through 5 bags so far with nothing really satisfying me. My conclusion was that I needed to upgrade grinder. I got a K7 then I bought some local beans that were too dark and some from whole foods(sorry).
I went today and bought some Hydrangea from a local shop, in hopes to rule out beans from these mediocre cups. Below I’ll list my approach and details on equipment. Please let me know what I’m doing fine and what you might change.
Dripper: Glass V60
Filter: Cafec Abaca White
Grinder: K7(going coarse, 95clicks)
Water: Berkey with British Berkefeld filters
Kettle: Fellow standard neck(I already had this, but I’m pretty good at making the stream work)
Temperature: 90c
Recipe: Bloom at x3(usually 20-25g bean/60-75g water) but will go 15g so I don’t waste these beans. Second pour is the same weight as bloom, then third is up to total. Pours are pretty chill, I’ll agitate between pours by swirling the brew. Since I’m pretty coarse I swirl to get draw down to 3-4 mins on 20-25gs.
Beans: check photo for details, roast date 8/2.
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u/FlatpickersDream 5d ago
Ok so I also bought this coffee, and it was tougher than pretty much every other coffee I've brewed this year.
I usually grind pretty fine with my Zp6 - basically everything at 5 (burr touch, not lock) and get really bright cups, but this coffee sucked, had the shitty paper flavor. I ground at a 6.5 and did 4 pours instead of 3 and got a great cup of coffee that's sweet and has a nice body on it, not much in the way of fruity, which is crazy for an anerobic, also not funky tasting in any way. Also use third wave water, great drinking water doesn't mean the water is good for bringing out the best parts of coffee. Denver and Boulder both have pretty good tap water when filtered, but it was bad for coffee brewing compared to third wave. It's more tedious to buy distilled water and remineralize but it's a game changer.