The Coffee Multiplication Table

Brew a Perfect Cup of Coffee ... Every Time Why is coffee so much better when you drink it in a coffeeshop? No, it's not the barista's suspenders,* super-tidy mustache, or super-obscure music by a band you've never heard of. But if you watch carefully, you might notice your next cup is brewed with a level of precision that you may not be applying when you make coffee at home. Brew the Right Weigh Good coffeeshops, like good bakers and grocers, brew coffee not by "scoops" or the "spoons," but by weight. Coffee from different farms can vary greatly in density and size, and the only way to accurately (read: repeatably, reliably) measure how much coffee to use is to weigh it. And as much as I admire the anachronistic Imperial system used in the United States, grams are the way to go. Find Your Ratio Baristas love to bicker about the right ratio of beans to water, but most would agree that a ratio of somewhere between 17 parts water to 1 part coffee (17/1) and 13/1 is going to work for most