1:15 · 225 ml
Merit Coffee Gute Site
Merit Coffee · Ethiopia
Natural · Light
Tasting notes: Blueberry // Boysenberry // Brown Sugar
Tailored from the bag label.
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- 0:00Bloom45 ml of water · 92 °C · 3.2 ml/s · wait 41 s, swirl45 ml+45 ml
- 0:55Pour 1Slow spiral · 88 °C · wait 15 s, swirl95 ml+50 ml
- 1:25Pour 2Slow spiral · 88 °C · wait 15 s, swirl145 ml+50 ml
- 1:55Pour 3Slow spiral · 88 °C · wait 15 s, swirl190 ml+45 ml
- 2:24Pour 4Slow spiral · 88 °C · let it drain225 ml+35 ml
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Why this recipe
Merit Coffee Gute Site · Merit Coffee
Grind 64 · 92 °C · 41 s · 2:30–3:30
Calculated by BrewMind's AI from this bean's altitude, process and roast, then checked against physical limits before you saw it.
This bean's sweetness lives in its texture, so weight and sweetness are chosen before clarity. It is a very dense bean, slow to give up flavour, so it is set to draw out its sweetness.
The decisions
Rock salt. Naturals give up flavour fast, so it's set coarser; the dense bean pulls it back finer.
Dial in your grinder →92 °C for the bloom, 88 °C after. Hotter turns a natural's fruit harsh, so 92 °C is its limit.
45 ml of water, then a 41-second wait. Escaping gas pushes water away; waiting it out lets the pours that follow soak in evenly.
More of the water goes in early, while flavour comes out fastest. More, smaller pours stir the bed gently, for a cleaner, lighter cup.
45 → 95 → 145 → 190 → 225 ml
Spiral pours reach the edges and stir the whole bed.
Among similar beans
TYPICAL RANGE OF 59 SIMILAR RECIPES · ETHIOPIA · NATURAL · LIGHT
Coarser than most in this group. The process asks for a gentler extraction.