Mirror Coffee Roasters

For pour over coffee, are smaller doses better? We explored some of the benefits of lowering your dose for consistency, speed, cost, and lowering waste.

Skill is a major factor of consistency in brewing, but we can also achieve consistency by doing less. A smaller dose means we spend less time pouring water, shorter brew time, and less room for mistakes. Skills is still necessary, but by minimizing our interaction with coffee we limit the potential of making mistakes.

Smaller doses in pour overs comes with many other benefits too. You bring down the cost in a cafe, make serving coffee faster, and if there is waste, you lower the overall loss.

What do you think? Are smaller doses better?

For those who want to consistently drink coffee at its peak.

Vacuum sealing and freezing coffee dramatically slows down its aging. Freezing is almost like a time capsule for food. It stops food from going bad and preserves its current state very well.
Pair that with vacuum sealing, and now you’re protecting the coffee from oxygen which is the primary cause of coffee going stale over time.
Storage in general is a huge component to preserving coffee flavor and this allows you to do it for a very long time.

So why not just drink all your coffee at its peak and forget about going through all the hassle? It saves you from the risk of running out of ready-to-brew coffee.
If you’re drinking a decent amount of coffee at home, and trying to rest coffee to its peak, this method of storing helps you build a reserve that is always available. At peak flavor.

Extra? Maybe.
But so is obsessing over brewing parameters, water minerals, burrs, and TDS readings.