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Brewing a perfect cup of coffee

10 Keys To Perfect Coffee

While some coffee lovers may have several steps to brewing a perfect cup of coffee, there are essential things one should remember:

  1. Make sure that your equipment is very cleaned thoroughly and often. Because dirty equipment can add strange tastes to your coffee.
  2. Quality, if you do not start out with great beans you can never make perfect coffee.
  3. As same as above, but apply it to the water you are using. Some coffee lovers use swiss water or water - proccess.
  4. Grind the coffee just before brewing.
  5. make sure you are using the correct grind for your method.
  6. use the right amount of ground coffee - two tablespoons per six - once cup. To many people wind up with weak coffee because the right amount seems too much.
  7. a trade secret: Fill your mug with hot water to warm it up before you pour your coffee in. This keeps the coffee hot for longer time.
  8. before serving the coffee, stir it. The amount of extraction tends to change over time when you are using certain methods. By giving it a quick stir you guarantee that the flavor is consistent throughout the pot.
  9. If you are making more than you can drink at one sitting, store the coffee in a thermos and not on the burner. Staying on the burner will give the coffee a burnt, bitter taste.
  10. Finally, if you have gone to all this trouble, take the time to make your cup of coffee count. Do not gulp, savor.
(This brillant piece of advise was taken from Timothy James Castle "The Perfect Cup")
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