Pour Over Using Kalita Wave

My go-to method of brewing coffee. It’s simple, engaging, and makes spectacular coffee when everything’s dialed. 

The recipe I’m going to share is how I make my pour over, but keep in mind there are many different ways to approach the pour over. Use this as a starting point if you’d like! We have made lots of little adjustments to our pour over recipe over time and I really like where it is now at a 16:1 ratio. 

Keep in mind things you can adjust:

• Water-to-Coffee ratio 

• Grind size

• Water temp

• Pouring method 

Supplies:

• Kalita Wave 185 Cone and Filters

• Gooseneck kettle

• Scale from Target

If you’re looking to upgrade your scale or kettle, we recommend this scale and kettle.

Recipe:

1. Heat water to 205F. If boiling water, bring to boil then let sit for a couple minutes before brewing.

2. Set up cone with filter on top of mug and pour some water through to rinse the filter.  This helps get any papery flavors outta there. Dump rinse water before brewing.

3. Weigh 17g of coffee and grind at a medium-fine (I do 4.25 out of 11 on my grinder).

4. Put ground coffee in cone setup and tare scale.

5. In a circular motion, wetting all grounds, pour about 35g of water in. Let bloom for about 20 seconds.

6. Make another pour in circular motion with even more water (100-125g). I like to always circle back to the center.

7. As water-coffee level goes down and you start to see it crater a bit, that’s usually when I pour more water in. Continue making pours until you reach 275g weight. 

8. Your pour over is complete! Enjoy!

*If you don’t have a scale, my end cup is about 9oz and I would start with 2 full tablespoons of coffee*