My Threequal Pour-Over Recipe

On this post I’d like to share my current favorite pour-over recipe.

I personally call this the Threequal recipe. Three equal pours for a balanced cup.

It’s quite simple to do, doesn’t involve complicated mental math, and IMO produces a very balanced cup of coffee. Enough acidity, enough body, enough sweetness.

The recipe

• Bloom with ⅓ of your target brew water. Follow this tip to see how I calculate my bloom time for different beans.
• Second pour using ⅓ of the water.
• Once you see the coffee bed, pour the last ⅓ of the water.

For example, I brew 18 g of coffee with 300 g of water:

1. Bloom with 100 g of water.
2. 100 g second pour.
3. Last 100 g third pour.

I usually use this recipe with this brew ratio only, but now that I’m using the Hario Polaris, I can easily adapt it to other brew ratios. I just need to pay attention to the poured water percentage 😁

The result is clean, sweet, with a gentle acidity that doesn’t overpower.

Give it a try, and please let me know if you like it 😀

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