Chemex Coffee Ratio Reddit

I would appreciate your preferred water to coffee ratios or your pour technique.

Chemex coffee ratio reddit.

I use 12g of coffee to 1dl of water which would be some 45g of coffee admittedly this is using a hario. Bloom 30 sec with 50g pour then 3 200g pours. Lowering my chemex ratio made weaker coffee. I like a lower ratio around 10 1 or even less sometimes but i don t obsess about it.

The chemex cup is only 5oz. 20g of coffee to 380g of water. Generally 1 15 is the ratio used for chemex. So i figured this would be a good coffee to see if i can push to the limit.

So i usually do around 10 to 13 grams of coffee to 100 to 150 ml of water. 1 cup of chemex coffee. For me i find i need more coffee and a slightly coarser grind in the chemex if i increase the number of cups i m making. If i have to save some coffee i may use less if i have a lot of coffee i may use more.

Currently using 40g of medium roast coffee inkwell house blend my first trade coffee match to 650 g water. 34 x 15 510. So let s say 70g 900ml for the 3 cups. I got a chemex the smallest 3 cup 1 pint one handblown and actually used a v60 natural filter with it as i had no chemex filters.

For 2 cups coffee use 34 grams coffee beans and 510 grams water. This morning i wanted to mix things up and i stumbled upon a variation of george howell s pourover method that used a ratio of 1 13 5 and extracted for a minute longer than i. I use a bit less 10g dl for french press. I brewed light roast washed tanzania beans.

Does the chemex really make good coffee with this ratio. Also a 52g 700 coffee water ratio is going to make a pretty strong cup of coffee. Obviously it s up to you to make it as strong as you like but just be aware of the fact that you re making some strong ass coffee. So i typically brew with a coffee water ratio of 1 16 with a 30 second bloom and a target of 3 30 4 00 for the total brew.

Depends on how much you and hubby drink but the 6 cup could handle about 30oz. 20 x 15 300 2 cups of chemex coffee. This chemex ratio doesn t meant much until you understand how many grams of coffee make 1 cup of coffee. 1 gram coffee to 15 grams water.

So the 3 cup only makes up to around 15oz or just over one mug or roughly equal to some travel mugs. I find immersion methods to not be as weak as the calculations suggest. I have the 8 cup classic chemex. Here are a few more things to keep in mind.

Yesterday i used 1 17 42 ratio and the coffee didn t taste good actually seemed too strong. For mixed groups of coffee drinkers i like to use my french press. I usually drink around 100 to 150 ml of coffee. I went with more water than people typically use in a french press for two reasons.

For 1 cup coffee use 20 grams of coffee beans about 3 tablespoons and 300 grams water. I really don t like larger drinks.