How To Make Pour Over Coffee At Home

Learning how to make pour over coffee isn’t hard – just follow our instructions to make a great cup of coffee!

If you have only experienced pour over coffee in a over priced coffee shop, it’s time to try the pour over at home. Why places charge so much for a pour over, when it’s essentially just hot water poured over ground coffee, blows my mind. This is the kind of coffee you can make at home even if you don’t own any equipment. Pour overs are as simple and low tech as it gets – and they can be a great ritual like our other blog post describes.

Step By Step On How To Make Yourself a Great Pour Over

These steps are somewhat simple but do require some time and practice to perfect the art.

1. Measure your coffee beans - about two tablespoons for every six ounces of water.

2. Grind your coffee to a medium coarseness – about the size of sea salt. Not too fine and you will get a bitter flavor. Too big, and your coffee will be sour. If you don't own a grinder, you can even use a blender.

3. Heat your water (which is filtered) on the stove in a kettle. Boil and then sit for a few seconds so it stops rolling – that should be just about the right temperature.

4. Put your filter in place and rinse it with some of the hot water. This pre-wet on your filter will keep it in place.

5. Pour in your coffee and follow it up with just enough water for the grounds to bloom. Blooming happens when carbon dioxide is released from the coffee. It bubbles up and you will definitely smell it. The measure of coffee freshness can be seen directly in how active your bloom is.

6. Once the grounds have bloomed, it’s time to start pouring in the water. Be sure that it is at a slow pace! You’re going to start from the outside of your filter and pour in a spiral towards the center.

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7. Now stop, and wait for the water to trickle through and the coffee to drip into your carafe. Begin again, pouring in a slow spiral. When the filter is full, stop and wait.

8. Repeat until all your water is gone.

9. Once you’ve got a cup or a carafe of coffee, remove your filter and grounds and enjoy your perfect cup of brew!

It’s about using good coffee beans, using the right grind, and having patience and also to enjoy the process. Making a pour over requires you to slow down for just a few minutes and focus on just one thing – the delicious cup of coffee!

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