3 Pour Over Mistakes Beginners Make

Love that you pointed out the Hario Drip assist. It's such a handy tool to have at the start of a coffee journey but it does limit the control you could have over making coffee. There is another water dispersion option that I think is a bit better myself, though it is a lot less easy to get around Europe, the Melodrip.

My personal advise to anybody that wants to dive into filter coffee would be to get an Clever Drip first. While it is a cross over between pour over and immersion it is incredibly easy to start off with. It removes the need for a water dispersion tool and gooseneck kettle if you follow the principle of water first and then coffee. Once someone has that down they can side step in what ever they think is most interesting to play around with. Be it cone, flat bed, no bypass or more immersion style brewers.

I have actually noticed that occasionally the top of the bed would look a bit like mud after brewing. I was experimenting a bit with grind size to see if I was just grinding too fine, but it would also make sense that it's an agitation thing, since I haven't splurged on a gooseneck (yet 😅).

Nestle pure life has low alkalinity and low tds like 30 from my research (not an advert)

Could you give us an example of good water brands.

Great tips. Sappy music.

I am having so much fun learning about the world of coffee! Just got my first burr grinder (Turin dm47) and dailing in pourovers. At the moment I am enjoying a very unconventional recipe that works with cafe au lait. I brew with a 1:9 ratio, relatively corse grind, with a very fast drawdown. I mix with 1 part maple syrup, 2 parts coffee and 4 parts milk. It makes a very rich sweet drink with a bold but smooth and sweet coffee flavor. you can taste the characteristics of the coffee well, but I would suspect it might not work if you drink black. Anyways, thank you for the great content!

Can you use distilled water when making coffee?

I underrestimated how much of a difference the level of agitation can make. Crazy. For the first time now I tried to go slower and also stop creating too many circles whlie pouring, but only making soft circles towards the end of the pour. My brew time decreased by one minute this way, lol. And I actually do have only a water cooker like you said in the video, so it's not optimal anyway. But even while still using it, the less agitation made still a massive difference!

Filter water will work.

When I went to Iceland, I had the coffee over there and oh my god it tasted so good because it was made with glacial water. So good! I still dream of it.

I found using dried crushed membrane free egg shells removes all the acid taste.... so you can agitate all you want for the strongest brew.

Found it! I started using just filter water from an Elkay water great. Big improvement.

Pour the hot water over your coffee, not your husband.

Best is cowboy coffee in a pan. Easy as it gets.

Clear as glass and very helpful. So, well done! Only issue for me personally is that everything being in metric hurts my head as I try to translate into the numbers I live with.

Glad I subscribed thank you

Coffee has been around for a long time and I don't think they had any kind of Brewing or special water like you have and it's always been good nobody's been complaining but it seems like there's more and more of you people trying to make something out of nothing to make a name for yourself and to get so many likes the fact is coffee is coffee get over it

TDS? Total dissolved solids (TDS) are the amount of organic and inorganic materials, such as metals, minerals, salts, and ions, dissolved in a particular volume of water; TDS are essentially a measure of anything dissolved in water that is not an H2O molecule. ... Hard to understand.

I was VERY surprised when the BEST coffee I had been drinking was a pour over 😃

I'm just a newbie but have found that if I wait 20sec. To 2 min . After water comes to a boil my pour over tastes wonderful. I use a Bodum carraffe and have found 3 filters works great. Top per filter middle stairs less bottom paper filter. Use plastic straw for bypass airflow in the spout. Yummy coffee. I use turkish pepper mill on loosest setting this gives nice grind. Also I like organic coffee. Hope this helps.

i see too many variables with this method, with the slightest mistake costing you a good cup of coffee. i was looking into a bodum drip, but i'll stick with my bodum french press.

My favorite coffee is Ethiopian ….it’s a light roast. I’m hooked on it

I could listen to you for days!

What do you think of the new cafec 27 deep samll dripper?

I wouldnt let hot water touch plastic. That is a HARD NO for Hario drip. I like my ceramic Bonavita with drip control for pour over.

Would you recommend reverse osmosis water?

Ok hot water poured over some coffee...got it.

w8 I thought that harder waters are better for coffe making... Containing positive magnesium and calcium ions. Wherever we are speaking of either caffeine or any of the acids, they should be carying some negatively-charged electrons around... So... I thought they should attract and thus help with the extraction...

Do Not buy a CHEMEX!
You are responsible for shipping to receive your package (approx $20) and if you have to exchange/return you are responsible to find a carrier of your choice and pay for shipping going back. When you call Chemex they never answer phone and you will be disconnected after few minutes . All contact is thru emails , if you get lucky .After getting your Chemex you will be spending hundreds of dollars bcuz you will need a Scale, Burr Grinder , Gooseneck Kettle , Filters coffee beans and after all that after brewing the coffee by the time you even finish your cup the coffee that is left in the carafe is COLD , and yes , you will have to buy another Gadget , a warmer to keep your coffee warm.. SMH

they always say, water water water, get soft water, easy to drink... what in the actual fuck does everyone mean? mineral? distilled? tap? spring? drinking? give the layman some clue ffs!

Gonna really remember this tip about agitation with my next pot. I kind of go back and forth between medium and light roasts but never really change up my pour. I've had some gripes about my last few light roast batches tasting kind of sour. Maybe I need to agitate it a bit and see if that helps?

First off - your channel is really good !!!

I currently prepare espresso type coffee’s - but am wanting to start with pour overs after having an amazing coffee from my local coffee shop using a chemex.

Im tossing up between chemex or v60. Still undecided.

Im looking for a kettle. Either the fellow stagg or brewista artisan.

from your experience, would you prefer or recommend one more than another ?

Cost for each here in Australia are pretty much equal - so taking cost out of thr equation

A Melbourne Australian brewer here, we are really lucky with our tap water here. Soft water out of the tap, and running it through a bwt filter = beautiful cups

Hmmm I wonder if drip assist is available for all sizes of the Hario Brewer?

Bring back the despised percolator and the samovars with "3rd wave" cafe and call it the 4th wave.

disagree to a point...."hard water" with some minerals can make a great cup.Sulphury or over chlorinated tap water, not so much. Sure distilled h2o will keep your kettle and espresso machine from calcification, Yet really "good" tap water may be less hard than the stream. If your loca hydrogen monoxide ain't great use a good water filter, if its nasty...poisoned.......contact your local government and acquire safe water in he interim.

By the time I finish my pour over, the coffee is always lukewarm and I have to microwave it.

How about tap water boiled ?

First time here, I don’t even drink coffee anymore due to health issues but I still love how to brew a good cup and this was very well explained

Is distilled water a good choice for pour over?

I'm doing aeropress for now, i just dialed in my JX and then all goes to shit by adding a Brita filter and i use 3.30 min JH method. And while you play with different coffee's, you settings also changes a lot - but i keep water temp and weight stable and only focuse on getting the grind to get around suitable to hit the 3.30 and i use the V60 Hario filters ( That came with the V60 02 plastic drip kit) for now and might check out the cafec eventually..

What are your thoughts on the April Brew Method with the April Dripper when taking agitation into account?

What if you only have access to tap water? I cannot purchase bottled water where I live.

Bedroom eyes, forgot about the coffee.

First world problems. You gotta love it!

I got a good grinder now (1z JX) and my pour over set ready and adjusted the grinds for a "good" 30g/500ml.. And yeah the coffee isnt great.. Going to fetch a Brita pitcher with filter and see the veil disappear then? Dann it is very hard to brew coffee today. Guess i need more stuff now again..

I have 40/60 RO\DI that makes all water 0TDS I use it for work but I think ima start using it for coffee…