Pour-over
Slow, honest, repeatable.

There is a reason the pour-over became the default gesture of specialty coffee. It hides nothing. Every choice you make — the grind, the pour, the pace — lands in the cup a minute later.
Think of it as three phases. The bloom lets fresh coffee breathe. The build layers water through the bed. The draw-down decides how sweet or how sharp the finish reads. Miss the bloom and you get a flat, muddy cup. Rush the build and it turns thin. Take a breath at each step and it comes together.
Use a gooseneck if you have one. If you do not, pour lower and slower — you will get closer than you think.
Recipe
How to brew
- 0:00
Rinse the paper. Discard the water. Coffee in, level the bed.
- 0:15
Bloom — pour 40 g in a spiral, swirl the dripper, sit for 30 seconds.
- 0:45
Pour to 160 g. Slow spirals from centre to edge and back.
- 1:30
Pour to 240 g. Same rhythm.
- 2:10
Pour to 320 g. Let it draw down. You want a flat, level bed at the end — no craters, no doughnut.