[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

Unique Collection in Switzerland Offers a Look at Coffee’s Rich History

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Serving Coffee in the Epicenter

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Three Questions with IWCA Executive Director Blanca Castro

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Get Ready for The Barista League’s 2024 Season

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[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

Thread Coffee Roasters Opens Tailor-Made Roastery in Baltimore

The interwoven actions of Thread Coffee Roasters in Baltimore are finding exponentially more space this week with the grand opening of a brand-new production roastery and training lab. The worker-owned…


The Slingshot Chalice Puts a New Spin on Espresso Dosing

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Three Questions with IWCA Executive Director Blanca Castro

When International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) Executive Director began her job years ago at the Guatemalan coffee association Anacafé, she knew next to nothing about coffee.  “I just pretended that…


Serving Coffee in the Epicenter

The Turkish specialty-coffee community is coming together to support earthquake relief. BY MICHAEL BUTTERWORTHSPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE When Niji Coffee went live on Instagram, it felt as though the entire Turkish specialty-coffee community was watching with bated breath. Niji Coffee made a name for itself in the Turkish specialty-coffee scene when, as a relatively […]

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

What I Learned from My First Tea Ceremony

After taking in a brief moment of a tea ceremony in Thailand, I finally had the chance to participate in the full experience recently in Malaysia. BY TANYA NANETTI SENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Photos by Tanya Nanetti In the years that I worked as a barista in a café, tea always played a marginal role in […]


Serving Coffee in the Epicenter

The Turkish specialty-coffee community is coming together to support earthquake relief. BY MICHAEL BUTTERWORTHSPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE When Niji Coffee went live on Instagram,…


A Look at Digital Coffee Future’s Digital Origin Education Program

The new program connects coffee producers to one another, provides them with educational resources, and more. BY VASILEIA FANARIOTISENIOR ONLINE CORRESPONDENT Photos courtesy of the Cocaerol, Comal & Amprocal cooperatives in Honduras Since 2021, Digital Coffee Future (DCF) has been working on a digital training program to address the needs of coffee producers. In September […]


The coffee industry’s biggest competition: The story of the World Barista Championship

Every year, the global coffee industry gears up for one of its most exciting and groundbreaking competitions: the World Barista Championship. For more than two decades, the WBC has been one of the biggest catalysts for change and innovation in specialty coffee, and continues to set even higher standards for baristas around the world to […]

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

minimum dose size?

Jan 31, 2024 |

I use the Hario switch to brew my coffee and am trying to reduce my caffeine consumption. Hence I would like to brew smaller cups of coffee. I am currently using 10g of coffee with 160g of water. (1:16 Ratio) I am wondering if there is a minimum amount of coffee...

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

I have a V60 decanter, gooseneck kettle, and Capresso Infinity grinder at the moment. I am using the Hoffman V60 recipe, as far as I can tell, as closely as possible to what he does. I usually switch between Colombian and African coffees, currently going through a bag of Yirgacheffee that I cannot nail. This is what my most recent coffee bed looks like, about 3 hours afterwards. Eyeballing it, it looks way courser than would be reasonable, but literally a single click in either direction on my grinder seems to be making my recent cups extraordinarily bitter or sour, or paradoxically both at the same time. Today's cup tasted fairly empty, and a bit bitter, at about a 2:30 drawdown, so I do not really want to grind finer.

I had been thinking for some time that there might be some intangible to the Hoffman method, not directly addressed in the video, but I am reasonably certain I am performing it precisely as expected, unless the actual pouring technique itself has a lot of nuance I could be missing beyond maintaining the flow rate he describes.

The only other thing I can think of is that perhaps it could be indicative of dull burrs; I had not realized with the weird COVID-flow of time, but I'm reasonably certain I've been making coffee with my Infinity every single day for around 5.5 years at this point. So I guess where that leaves me is, do y'all think I could be missing something with my technique? Should I replace the burrs in my capresso, or upgrade outright? I make pourover 90% of the time, aeropress/Mokapot the other 10%. Interested in French Press in the future but don't presently own one. I'm willing to upgrade or get a hand grinder I just want to make sure it is worth the investment for someone who is almost exclusively making pourover with zero interest in breaking into Espresso at the moment. Thank you very much!

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Perfect Little Beans

Chinmey Hill Coffee uses specialty-grade beans with zero primary defects (such as black beans or sour beans) and less than five secondary defects (such as broken beans). This is important because primary defects will greatly affect the taste of the coffee. Having zero defects allows the coffee to be the most optimal flavor.

Window for Optimal Flavor

Chimney Hill Coffee ships our coffee the same day it was roasted, so you will receive it before it enters the window of optimal flavor.  This means you’ll never miss the opportunity to enjoy the coffee’s peak flavor.

Coffee Ratings

Coffee undergoes many scoring processes by professionals who achieved their Q Grader certification. Coffee is first graded when it’s green. If there are defects the coffee is determined to be “not-specialty grade”. For those coffees that pass green grading, they are sample roasted and cupped. (Cupping is the official term for critically tasting and scoring coffees. The official cupping form is standard worldwide, and where the 100-point scoring system comes from.) A coffee’s dry fragrance, wet aroma, flavor, aftertaste, body, acidity, balance, and overall impression are taken into consideration while uniformity issues and defects, will lower the overall score.

Specialty Coffee

Specialty coffee, coined by Erna Knutsen in 1974, refers to a coffee that receives a quality grading score of 80 percent or higher. While “premium” or “gourmet” seem like they’re synonymous with “specialty,” they simply are marketing terms with no defined standards. Specialty coffees are grown in specific and ideal micro-climates, and have distinctive and unique flavor profiles, with little to no defects.

Third-Wave Coffee

We’re currently in the third wave of coffee. The first wave of American coffee put pre-ground, vacuum-sealed cans in kitchens across America. The second wave started with the late ‘60s introduction of Peet’s coffee (by Alfred Peet) through the proliferation of Starbucks. The third wave of coffee focuses on origin transparency, nuanced flavors, and artisan roasting. The term “third wave” is synonymous with specialty coffee.

[Question][Gear]The harder I try the worse my V60 is 🙁

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