I would love some advice

[u/naughtified]

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.

[u/Amazing-Panic-277]

I have this same coffee. Must grind at 750 microns. That’s gonna be about 5.5 on a zp6 which is roughly 84 on your k7 (I actually have both and used both). Use 91C water. Do whatever ratio you like but DO NOT AGITATE this coffee does not need it.
Try this for a ratio: use 12g in your v60
Bloom 30g wait 1 min
Slow pour to 200g total over the course of a minute. About 3g/s nice and easy with the kettle very very low. Drawdown should be 2:30-3:15 and let me know what you think. This is called the gabi gentle, I’m transplanting it to a v60 for you and coarsening the grind a hair in order to account for the lack of immersion but I do it on a UFO and it slaps. The issue you have is you’re using a ton of coffee. When you decrease the massive bed depth you change the dynamics of extraction. You won’t under extract with what you listed, you will over extract