Great googly moogly there's a lot of nuances and minute details to this coffee stuff. This morning was trying out the V60, which I think needs to be mastered if you're going to consider yourself fully immersed in the home coffee brewing hobby. Needless to say, the littlest bit of research will show there are countless ways to brew with this simple thing. Some are almost polar opposites of each other. I chose to loosely follow James Hoffman's technique. And can I just say, let's call them techniques instead of "recipes"? These guys keep calling differences in techniques or procedures, recipes. All your friggin' "recipes" are the same. Coffee and water. There's your flippin' recipe.
I went up to a 1:16 ratio and used 25g beans and 400g water. I turned the Ode down to 2 as this technique uses a finer grind. Bloomed with as much agitation I could get and then two pours with some swirling and a light spoon stir at the end of the 2nd pour. I didn't use a timer and should have to get the data point, but I think the brew went a lot faster than Mr. Hoffman intends. The only way I can think to slow this down is to turn the grind even finer. The outcome was reasonable though. I brewed my wife's light roast and she said it tasted the same as with the Aeropress. I used my medium roast and when it was still hot there was a bitter note that isn't usually there, but once it cooled a bit that went away, and now there is a citrus note spike that wasn't there as intensely with the Aeropress.
The adventure continues.
