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How To Avoid A Bad Pour Over Brew

2026-04-02 Entertainment
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James Hoffmann
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You've opened a fresh bag of coffee, ground at your usual settings, started your pour over and straight away... you can see it is going horribly wrong. Today's video will explore a few tweaks you can make to your pour over coffee mid-brew to rescue it. Our recipe for a 1 Cup V60: https://youtu.be/1oB1oDrDkHM All main retailers for The Book of Coffee: https://geni.us/5waMnAq Signed copies of The Book of Coffee are now sold out! Thank you so much for your support. 00:00 When It All Goes Wrong 03:21 When You’ve Ground Too Fine 06:36 When You’ve Ground Too Coarse 12:06 Closing Thoughts Other Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jameshoffmann Limited Edition Merch: https://geni.us/TensHundredsThousands Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimseven Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jimseven My Books: I wrote the foreword and afterword to Julian Baggini’s The Book of Coffee*: https://geni.us/thebookofcoffee How to Make The Best Coffee At Home*: https://geni.us/howtomakethebestcoffee The World Atlas of Coffee*: https://geni.us/worldatlasofcoffee The World Atlas of Coffee Audiobook*: https://bit.ly/worldatlasofcoffeeaudio The Best of Jimseven*: https://geni.us/bestofjimseven Things I use and like: My old glasses: http://bit.ly/boldlondon My new glasses (Sept 2024 onwards): https://bit.ly/thenewglasses My hair product of choice*: https://geni.us/forthehair (*Affiliate links which may earn us a commission)

Top Comments (10)

@kik97-x4u 2026-04-02

If a brew turns out wrong I drink it and pay attention it's horribleness so that I can be more mindful of the greatness of a good brew

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@klak303 2026-04-02

honestly just the visual of what the bloom looks like when too coarse or fine is super helpful itself

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@ThePaulness1 2026-04-02

If James made a video about how to rescue your hair mid coif I would watch just as intently

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@brodym46 2026-04-03

Chemist here! I wanted to chime in and say I love your methods here and your analysis! You're essentially doing column chromatography and collecting fractions off your column and I think that's awesome! Keep up the weird and wonderful coffee science you do on this channel!!

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@scarface188 2026-04-02

So early I’m underextracted

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@TheInouffe 2026-04-02

I can't wait to find out how to Coarse Correct my pourovers.

170 3 replies
@mford66215 2026-04-02

@2:33 - When the audience finally learns how James gets so much done in a day.

152 3 replies
@stru_99 2026-04-02

2:28 not many people know this but they call him James Hoffmann because there are two Jame. Jame 1 and Jame 2

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@DBrent-jf2wu 2026-04-02

I don't cry over the spilled milk, but a piece of me mourns every wasted bean or grind.

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@VerhoevenSimon 2026-04-02

Thank you for the rescue advice. I'm utterly baffled that so few people share a proper bloom visual. That'll help me so much.

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