V60 recipe and dial-in guide

This is where Cuplift starts a new V60 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.

Grind is in microns because a click means something different on every grinder. 660µm is about 22 clicks on a Comandante C40. Filter: Paper (x1).

Steps

1. Rinse filter
2. Add 15g coffee
3. Bloom with 40ml, gentle swirl, wait 45s
4. Pour to 150ml in concentric circles by 1:00, at 0:45
5. Pour to 250ml by 1:30, at 1:00
6. Gentle swirl, drawdown complete by ~3:00

The V60 is a pour-over brewer, which decides which changes are open to you.

• 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 covers the order to fix things in.

• Why does my coffee taste sour? How to fix it
• Why does my coffee taste bitter? How to fix it
• Why does my coffee taste dry, chalky or astringent?
• Why does my coffee taste weak or watery?