How to Dial In Your Coffee in 60 Seconds
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If your coffee tastes off, don’t start over. Adjust one thing.
Here’s the fastest way to fix your brew:
Step 1: Taste it
- Sour or sharp → under-extracted
- Bitter or dry → over-extracted
Step 2: Adjust grind
- Sour → grind finer
- Bitter → grind coarser
Step 3: Keep everything else the same
Don’t change ratio, water, and grind all at once. That’s how you get lost.
Step 4: Brew again
Small changes make big differences.
Pro tip
Most bad coffee at home is just grind size being off by a little.
Bottom line
Dialing in isn’t complicated. It’s controlled tweaking.