The Pour Over Method
Can You Wait 3 Minutes?
The Pour Over Process brings coffee brewing back to its roots, takes out automation, and adds precision that allows the “scientifically” perfect brew to occur. This method can seem daunting at first glance, but only takes three minutes and serves as moments of calm to either watch or brew on your own
So how does this process work? Here is our best take at explaining the science and flows step-by-step:
It all starts with grinding the coffee fresh and weighing it out for your cup size. 12oz of coffee? We would recommend 25 grams of ground coffee. From here, the coffee goes into your dripper (our favorite is the Espro Bloom dripper that we use in shop).
Next up, the water. We use a gooseneck kettle that we set to a specific temperature. The brewing temp range for pour over is 200-205 degrees Fahrenheit, or just below boiling. Once the water is heated to this proper temperature, we begin the first pour, called the bloom. Pouring into the center of the coffee grounds in our dripper and then in a spiraling motion in and out.
Measuring weight continues here. We stop the first pour at 75 grams of water and allow 30-45 seconds for the beans to bloom. You’ll see the beans bubbling and air releasing from them. This allows the CO2 that builds up in the beans during the roasting process to release. After this bloom, we continue with a few more pours, following that spiralling motion, each of about 100 grams. Let the water drip through the beans almost fully and then onto the next pour. It ends up being a total of 4 pours, and the final weight will be 375 - 400 grams.
Once the dripping is finished, voila, you have your fresh brewed cup! You may already even feel a bit of energy before your first sip from the aromas of the pour over.
Want to brew a larger cup? Follow the ratio of 15:1 (grams of water per gram of coffee). So for example, a 16oz cup would need 35 grams of coffee and that multiplied by 15 grams for water would equate to 525 grams of water.
And lastly, how do you weigh this so precisely? We use a gram scale! There area variety of options for these, which we sell in our shop.
