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Taste at the Extremes: A Better Way to Brew
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For a long time, I made small changes to my brew and tasted nothing. In this episode, I talk about why incremental tweaks, the kind every recipe and every guide tells you to make, are often the worst way to actually learn your coffee. I walk through why pushing to the extremes, brewing something intentionally over-extracted and then intentionally under-extracted, teaches your palate more in ten minutes than weeks of tiny adjustments ever will. I also share a real example from my own bar this week, dialing in a new dark roast, and connect it to a lesson I picked up years ago on an autocross track.
You'll learn why your palate struggles to register small changes, how to use the extremes on purpose to find your reference points faster, and why the incremental fine-tuning that everyone tells you to start with is actually where you end up, not where you begin. If you've ever felt frustrated dialing in a new bag of coffee, or wondered whether you're actually tasting anything different at all, this episode gives you a simpler, more honest way to explore it.
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