Coffee Dose
The amount of coffee grounds you use for your brew. This is the foundation of your recipe and affects strength, extraction, and cost per cup.
How It Affects Your Coffee
📊 Extraction
More coffee = stronger brew and slower extraction due to denser coffee bed
👅 Taste
Higher doses create fuller body, more complexity, and can mask under-extraction
🎯 Difficulty
Easier to control - very forgiving variable for beginners
💡 Pro Tips
- •Start with 1:15 ratio (e.g., 17g coffee to 255g water) for balanced coffee
- •Use a scale - volumetric measurements (scoops) are inconsistent
- •Higher doses (20-25g) work better for milk drinks where you need strong coffee base
- •Lower doses (12-15g) are great for delicate light roasts where you want clarity
- •Aeropress can handle 14-20g comfortably; beyond that, stirring becomes difficult
⚠️ Common Mistakes
- ✗Using volumetric scoops instead of weighing - grind size affects density
- ✗Copying espresso ratios (1:2) for filter coffee - you'll get mud
- ✗Not adjusting dose when changing cup size
- ✗Using too little coffee (<12g) and compensating with finer grind - leads to channeling
⚙️ Equipment-Specific Advice
☕ Aeropress
14-18g is the sweet spot for standard brewing. Inverted method can handle up to 20g.
🥃 French Press
60-75g per liter (1:13-1:17 ratio). Lower doses lead to weak, under-extracted coffee.
🫗 Pour Over
15-20g for single cup (250-300ml). Scale linearly for larger brews.
🎮 Coming Soon: Interactive Simulator
Experiment with coffee dose in real-time and see how it affects your coffee taste profile.
🎯 Apply This Knowledge
📚 Learning Progress
🚀 Complete all 8 variable pages to unlock advanced simulators in Phase 1.1!