What’s The Easiest Way To Make Great Coffee At Home?

Have you recently switched to speciality coffee and still struggle to brew the perfect cup? While great coffee starts with, well, the actual coffee, there are many other factors that can impact your cup that have nothing to do with the coffee origin and flavour profile. In this blog, we’ll show you the easiest way to make great coffee at home. Let’s get into it.

Don’t Use Tap Water When Brewing Coffee!

Brewing speciality coffee with poor water is like cooking with low-quality stock, you can still make the dish, but the flavour will suffer.

Here are 2 substitutes for tap water that will be a game-changer if you’re a home barista:

1. Use filtered water
This is the most common upgrade. A simple carbon filter (like a jug or tap filter) removes chlorine and improves taste instantly. It’s the baseline for better coffee at home.

2. Avoid distilled or ultra-pure water
Water with no minerals produces flat, lifeless coffee. Coffee needs some minerals to properly extract flavour, so completely “pure” water is actually not ideal.

Coffee To Water Ratio Do’s And Don’ts

Eyeballing the amount of coffee that gets to be brewed may not be the way to go if you want to perfect the art of brewing coffee at home.

Depending on the brewing equipment you have at home, you will need to adapt the ratios for optimum extraction, It’s really important to have fun with it, so take our recommendation as guidance and not a hard and fast rule:

Espresso

• Ratio: 1:2 (coffee to yield)
• Dose: 18–20 g coffee → ~36–40 g espresso

Cafetiere / French Press

• Ratio: 1:15–1:17
• Dose: 15–18 g per 250 ml water

Filter / Pour Over

• Ratio: 1:16–1:17
• Dose: 15–18 g per 250–300 ml water

Moka Pot

• Ratio: ~1:7 (brew chamber dependent)
• Dose: Fill basket (approx. 12–18 g depending on size)

AeroPress

• Ratio: 1:12–1:16
• Dose: 14–18 g per 200–250 ml water

Turkish Coffee

• Ratio: 1:8–1:1
• Dose: 6–8 g per 60–80 ml water

Following these ratios is a great way to get started with the easiest way to make great coffee at home.

The Correct Grind For The Easiest Way To Make Great Coffee At Home:

The grind type directly impacts the taste of your coffee.

If you use a fine grind when brewing French Press coffee, the results will be a ‘muddy’ cup with residues making their way in your cup.

If you grind the coffee beans too coarsely for an espresso machine, the espresso will under-extract because the water will flow too quickly through the grounds.

The wrong grind causes either over extraction or under extraction. The first results in a bitter, unpleasant taste and the latter results in a watery cup of coffee.

Here’s a cheat sheet that will help you:

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