Coffee Grind & Temp: Taste Transformation

if you're doing a French press regardless of the coffee you want to have a medium coarse or even a coarse grind to it um if you do a mocha pot you want to have a medium grind if you're doing an espresso you want to have a fine grind and all of those things matter the grinder that you use a lot of people including myself um will use the blade grinder the problem with the blade grinder is it pulverizes the Coffee Bean to a certain extent so some of it will be the grind that you want but there'll be a lot of powder or fine so it just be a lot of very fine powder and if that goes into your coffee it does a few things it muddies it up first of all um even filters it's hard to capture some of them because they're so fine but it overe extracts the coffee and so you can get a bitterness that wouldn't have been there otherwise or you can just get a it changes the flavor profile where if it's a delicious coffee but if it's ground wrong you taste to say well I don't like this coffee uh this isn't good well you're drinking it in a way that it was it should never be prepared uh so grinding coffee for the right situation the grind matters depending on how you plan to prepare it so those things all matter uh the temp temperature is another interesting thing if you sit down and you have a bourbon Rosado pick any and you drink it when it's hot and then you go back a few minutes later when it's cooled down a little bit tastes a little bit different than when it was hot and if you let it cool down a little bit more it tastes yet again a little bit different as that temperature goes down the The Taste changes it's uh it's pretty fascinating you kind of figure out The Sweet Spot is the absolute temperature of of the extraction I've never found that to be the best taste but about four or five minutes into it where that temperature drops a few degrees that's where you're getting all that flavor then as it get gets colder it just you know you can you can relate it to food you know the food has its pee temperature you don't want it so hot you're burning your mouth but you want to have it hot to where all the flavors are there and as it gets cold you know maybe it gets you know it gets greasy it just it's just not as good and coffee is no different than that more I learn about coffee the more I realize how similar it is to Wine yeah