BREWING GUIDES

Weak or watery coffee: check the ratio

If coffee seems watery, check how much coffee and water you used. Strength and body are not the same perception. Use the recipe as a reference and compare one adjustment per brew.

Try changing first

Choose one experiment your equipment allows. Compare using the same coffee and recipe. This list is neither a diagnosis nor a sequence of changes to make all at once.

  1. Check coffee and water

    Weigh both and compare with the recipe. Correct a measurement error before creating a new ratio.

  2. Try less water for the same coffee dose

    If measurements were correct, less water per gram of coffee lets you explore concentration. This can also affect extraction.

  3. Compare grind in a separate brew

    If you control grind, a small finer adjustment is another possible test. Do not change water and grind in the same experiment.

Keep going here

V60AeroPressRecipesTo adjust dose and water with the ratio at hand, open the calculator.

Brewing references: SCA · Brewing Chart

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