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a weaker v60 without extraction change (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's say I'm brewing perfect v60 cups for my taste and don't want to change the flavor as its not too sour or bitter. However I just want it a bit weaker. What parameters would I change? Could I just add a little water after the brew? If I used less beans or more water during, I'd think it'd mess with the extraction.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, adding water is a perfectly good solution! You can do it a little at a time until it tastes right and then make a note of however much water that was.

Bypass brewing seems underutilized in pourover -- although it's pretty common in aeropress recipes. Crown coffee has an interesting post about it from a while ago.

Bypass will reduce your extraction and hence efficiency, but that only matters in a commercial setting IMO. That being said, if you want to achieve the same thing without bypass at the end, probably what you'd end up doing is using a longer ratio (more water) and then possibly needing to tweak another variable such as grinding a bit coarser to re-balance the flavor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the article link! Would never have thought to search for "bypass brewing".