Brew recipes in coffee are used to help you extract the most out of your coffee with as little wastage. Alongside 'recipes', these can also be presented as 'ratios'.

Recipes

We always present these based on what we deem to be the hierachey of importance. The top of this is 'dose' which is measured in grams, followed by 'yield' also measured in grams, and 'time' as seconds in espresso and minutes in filter. Therefore, reading from left to right you can recognise the dry coffee ground dose > the yield of coffee in the cup > the time it took to extract.

An example of this may look like this:

15g > 240g > 3:00

Ratios

This is useful to describe a recipe which you can alter based on the amount of coffee you'd like to drink. We can set a ratio which could work for one cup on your own, or four cups with friends (this isn't full proof for other mitigating factors, but you'll certainly get good results).

Our ratios will always show the dry coffee ground dose on the left, and the yield of coffee in the cup on the right.

An example of this may look like this:

1:2.5 - for espresso this could translate to 18g:45g

Our target with Espresso is to hit a sweet spot of body and sweetness by finding an optimum extraction of espresso from thee dry coffee puck. That balance can be hard to hit as there are so many variables, but if you're tasting either salty/sourness, or bitter/dryness, then try the following quick tips:

Salty/Sour - Run your shot longer to a larger yeild.

Bitter/Dry - Run your shot a bit shorter to a smaller yeild.

Both? - Try and shoot for a more even extraction by ensuring your coffee grounds are level before tamping and the shot isn't running very fast due to channeling (cracks in your post tamped puck which allow the espresso to bypass coffee). This is often a result of a poor quality grinder - try cleaning yours out, or upgrading (the Wilfa on our site is great, but we can source commercial grade too if your budget allows!).

We think the recipe below will get you most of the way towards a great espresso, but use the above guide to make marginal improvements.

1. Weigh 18g of coffee and

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