{"id":53403,"date":"2025-05-07T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/?p=53403"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:24:31","slug":"controlling-water-temperature-for-better-tasting-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/controlling-water-temperature-for-better-tasting-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Water Temperature for Better Tasting Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got your coffee gear<\/a> at your preferred level of fancy.\u00a0 And we’ve spent some time learning how grind size affects the way coffee tastes<\/a>.\u00a0 One of the more advanced things to control as a home barista is the water temperature.<\/p>\n

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How water temperature affects your coffee’s taste<\/h4>\n

Water temperature affects how the coffee extracts, which changes the taste.\u00a0 Coffee needs to be hot enough to extract all of the oils, flavanoids, acids, and caffeine, but not so hot that it destroys these compounds.\u00a0 When the temperature is too low, these compounds, especially the oils, are not extracted well.\u00a0 \u00a0This makes the coffee taste sour.\u00a0 If the water is too hot, it can destroy the flavanoids and extract other compounds too fast, leading to over extraction and a bitter cup.\u00a0 Furthermore, the hotter the water is, the harder it is to control the speed of extraction, leading to bitter coffee every time.<\/p>\n

What you can do<\/h4>\n

At BCR, we like the water to be 207\u00b0F when it hits the coffee.\u00a0 We find this temperature gives us a nice balanced cup.\u00a0 Some electric kettles display water temperature or you can always use a thermometer if you want to get into that level of detail with your morning ritual.<\/p>\n

For those of you looking for ‘good enough’, here’s an easy general rule:\u00a0 bring your water to a rolling boil (212\u00b0F) and then turn off your kettle or pull it off of the heat source.\u00a0 Let it sit for 8 seconds, then pour onto your grounds.\u00a0 8 seconds off the boil will get you close to 207\u00b0F and lead to some delicious, well balanced coffee.\u00a0 Whether you drink French press, pour over, or Aeropress, the water temperature will change the way your coffee tastes.\u00a0 An easy shift can make your coffee taste just a bit better.<\/p>\n

Need some coffee to experiment with water temperature on?\u00a0 Try Roaster’s Choice<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got your coffee gear at your preferred level of fancy.\u00a0 And we’ve spent some time learning how grind size affects the way coffee tastes.\u00a0 One of the more advanced things to control as a home barista is the water temperature. How water temperature affects your coffee’s taste Water temperature affects how the coffee extracts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,377],"tags":[374,385,384],"class_list":["post-53403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-coffee","category-great-coffee-at-home","tag-award-winning-coffee-in-portland","tag-coffee-gear","tag-great-coffee-at-home"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53466,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53403\/revisions\/53466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindcoffeeroasters.com\/bcr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}