The Beans

The building blocks of a perfect cup of coffee is freshly ground, high-quality coffee beans. Freshness is essential when extracting complex flavors and aromas within the coffee. Look for beans that have been recently roasted and ideally leaving these beans two weeks after there roast date.

Grinders

These beans should then be ground with a burr grinder and ideally just before you brew the coffee. Burr grinders are essential as they produce a consistent grind size, ensuring they are uniform, what is required for an even extraction

Coffee-To-Water-Ratio

Coffee-to-Water ratio is important metric when measuring how much water you have to how much ground coffee to use. Usually its referred to as 1 to x or 1:x. The 1 is a gram of coffee and the x is the grams of coffee to use. We use ratio and not a recipe as when we use a recipe its a fixed number and we might not want to brew the set amount of coffee. With ratios we can adjust to the amount of coffee we want to brew for. For example we could have a 1:17 ratio so for every gram of coffee we use 17grams of coffee.

Optimal-Water-temperature

When it comes to making the perfect cup of coffee balancing all these different factors including water temperature is important. However when brewing an overlooked variable is the temperature of the water when brewing. Water temperature is essential when brewing coffee as it affects the rate of extraction. The hotter the water the quicker it extracts different compounds such as oils acids and caffeine. However when the water is hot it is difficult to control the rate of extraction. This will lead to over extraction making also very bitter as the heat will strip away the oxygen. According to the national coffee association, the ideal water temperature for extraction is 195-205°F a little below boiling. This works ac-cross most brewing methods such as pour over and french press. More on this will be covered below.

Specialty Coffee Brewing

Brewing coffee is often regarded as an integral aspect of specialty coffee. While specialty coffee is identified as such prior to brewing, whether you're buying it from a cafe or preparing it at home, certain practices are associated with specialty coffee. These practices entail precise measurement of coffee dosage and grind size, along with meticulous control of various brewing variables, all aimed at attaining the finest quality coffee.

Coffee Roasting

Coffee roasting is the proccess of heating coffee up in a revolving drum and trying to control numerous variables to extract different flavour from coffee. The coffee roaster will attempt to extract natural flavour notes of the coffee, this is called a roast profile