# Orea V3 recipe and dial-in guide

> A pour-over dripper: water passes through the bed and out through the filter. There's no timer to set — the drawdown time is a result of grind and pour, which makes it the most useful reading you have.

Source: https://cuplift.app/brewers/orea-v3 · Updated 18 October 2026

## A starting Orea V3 recipe

This is where Cuplift starts a new Orea V3 brewer before it knows anything about the coffee. Once you add a bean, the recipe adjusts for roast, process and altitude, then learns from what you taste.

| Coffee | Water | Ratio | Grind | Temp | Target drawdown |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 15g | 240ml | 1:16 | 720µm (Medium-Coarse) | 95°C | ~3:00 |

Grind is in microns because a click means something different on every grinder. 720µm is about 24 clicks on a Comandante C40. Filter: Flat paper.

### Steps

1. Rinse filter
2. Add 15g coffee
3. Bloom with 50ml, wait 30s
4. Spiral pour to 110ml at 0:40
5. Spiral pour to 180ml at 1:20
6. Spiral pour to 240ml at 2:00
7. Drawdown complete by ~3:00, at 2:30

## Dialling in a Orea V3

- Time the drawdown. A bed that stalls or gushes is the first thing to fix, because the cup can't be judged on a brew that didn't flow properly.
- Grind is your main extraction lever — finer to extract more, coarser to extract less.
- Pour height stands in for contact time: a higher, more energetic pour extracts more.
- Temperature and water minerals come after, once grind has had its turn.

Whatever the problem, change one thing per brew. The [dial-in guide](https://cuplift.app/dial-in) covers the order to fix things in.

## Common pour over problems

- [Why does my coffee taste sour? How to fix it](https://cuplift.app/fix/sour-coffee)
- [Why does my coffee taste bitter? How to fix it](https://cuplift.app/fix/bitter-coffee)
- [Why does my coffee taste dry, chalky or astringent?](https://cuplift.app/fix/astringent-coffee)
- [Why does my coffee taste weak or watery?](https://cuplift.app/fix/weak-coffee)