Nicasio Coffee Blog — brewing

In future posts I’ll go into more detail about how to tweak other variables that will have an impact on your coffee flavor. As I pointed out earlier, the grinder is the most link of your coffee making chain. Without a good grinder, it is very hit or miss – all too often the latter. But how much coffee should you use? And how much water? There are not fixed and firm rules about this, just suggestions. But for this post we’ll just discuss how much coffee. The first thing to think about is what do we mean by “much”....

In my last blog post I recommended getting a new grinder if you want to improve the taste of your coffee. Now I’ll explain why the grinder is so important to the actual taste of the coffee. The first and most obvious thing is consistency. A spice grinder grinds finer the longer you keep it on. Depending on the coffee (some are harder than others), freshness, amount used, it is very hard to produce the same grind time after time. When making coffee, reducing variables is important to improving and maintaining consistently good coffee. If some days the ground coffee...

How many times have you bought a cup of coffee that smelled great, but tasted bitter, acrid and needed to be diluted with milk and/or sugar? You can add milk or sugar to Nicasio Coffee, but you don't need to! Try it black. You'll be impressed with its natural sweetness and rich coffee flavors. Nicasio Coffee will taste great using any brewing method.  It's not surprising that the amount of coffee used will impact how your coffee tastes, but what about the amount of water? Or temperature of the water? The size of the grind and brew time can also impact the flavor....