How To Improve Your Home Barista Skills
THINGS TO ENSURE:
✓ Enjoy the ritual of brewing your own coffee
- Appreciate being hands on while using your senses
✓Keep whole beans
- Your beans are at their best quality when they are whole. Grind your beans just before you brew your coffee to keep them nice and fresh and tasting their best
✓Weighing coffee and water helps
- Using quality scales helps you achieve correct ratios and consistency when brewing coffee to your liking
✓Water temp makes a difference
- Boiling water will scorch your coffee; 94-95°C is ideal. Use a thermometer or let your boiled kettle stand to cool a bit before you pour
✓Coffee to water ratios help achieve excellent flavours
- Filter coffee: 60 – 80g coffee / 1000ml water
- Espresso coffee: 1:2 (e.g. 20g coffee / 40ml water)
✓ Have fun and explore the science of coffee
- Find what’s right for your palate
- Change the dose, grind, temp and brew time to improve the flavours to your liking
- You can achieve a stronger tasting coffee or a more subtle delicate brew by changing some of the above mentioned until you find what’s right for you.
- Up your dosage or brew time, or fine the grind to intensify your experience
- Lower the dosage or brew time, or coarsen the grind to decrease the intensity