How to get Sweeter Coffee (less sour) ☕ | Throwing away the BLOOM💦 | Hario V60

📌 Hello everyone, this is a video on how to make sweeter brew by throwing away the boom. I read and researched a bit about this and thought it was interesting and from what I know, Chinese tea brewing also 'washes' the tea leaves before brewing, so I decided to apply it and give it try. The information/guide I give are from what I read and learnt, hence it is not 'proven' or correct but I did taste a much sweeter and fruitier coffee and less acidic (or sourness). I saw a bunch of conflicting arguments about throwing away the bloom water on hand-drip forums but just give it a try, and see it for yourself if it makes a difference, as coffee can be very subjective to your own preference.

I personally tried the bloom water and was extremely sour so I was curious of how a coffee can taste like without the bloom water. The reason for it being sour is due to the fact that the bloom process is to release carbon dioxide to allow greater exposure to water and thus better extraction. This means that the bloom water is ultimately under-extracted and hence the acidic/sourness. Most likely it will depend on the beans you're using and your preference, if you use beans that are heavy roasted you wouldn't have to discard as it is unlikely to be as acidic/sour; just experiment with it!

I used a mixture of Light-medium roasted beans and dark/heavy roasted beans (Colombia&Brazil: 150g and Italian: 100g, respectively). 40 clicks on Hario electric grinder. I also used frozen beans as it brings out a sweeter and fruiter flavour, making the secondary flavours of the coffee beans more prominent (more information below) and HARIO V60 (02).


💡 More information about freezing beans:
   • Benefits of Freezing Coffee. Research...  

💡 More information about bloom:
https://foodal.com/drinks-2/coffee/gu...

💡 More information about bloom (video):
   • NO BLOOM!? The Ultimate Pour Over Tec...  

💡 Discussion about discarding bloom:
  / shouldnt_we_throw_away_the_water_from_bloo...  


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⏱️ STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE
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1. Freeze the beans
2. Grind 24g of 'frozen' beans (40 clicks)
3. Boil water to 100°C (100-93)
4. Prepare the dripper ('wash' the paper filter) and put the grinded coffee
5. Pour 40ml, wait for it to drip and throw away the bloom water (you can pour 25 to 45ml, 20g of coffee will absorb 20 ml of water so anywhere between 25-45ml is good enough)
6. Pour 240ml within 1:30
7. And it's ready!


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