If you are a coffee enthusiast, perhaps you have already understand that the two most important thing in a cup of coffee with a great taste is the bean and the brewer.

Kevin Sinnott explained in his knol, that no matter how expensive the beans, if you don’t have a good brewer, you won’t get to taste them at their best.

The following is the exceprts of tips on how to test your coffee brewer:

• Visit consumer feedback sites – You can always learn about anything from other consumers.
• Temperature – 195 to 205 Fahrenheit is the official recommended temperature.
• Grounds saturation – This is about how well the water sprayhead and filter are designed to keep all the grounds wet during brewing.
• Contact time – It is currently the most common fault of the typical consumer auto drip brewer, and also a common fault of overzealous consumers when grinding for auto-drip or manual brewers.

Kevin shared his easiest coffee brewer test of all:

… The easiest test of all is to simply time your brewer. If it’s up to eight minutes, you can probably compensate by grinding coarse. If it’s past that, I would suggest parting company with it. If you’re absolutely determined to make it work, you can compromise by brewing half batches or so, on the theory that you can bring the contact time down to around six minutes. It still won’t address temperature shortcomings, but it will at least help prevent over-extraction.

To learn more, please visit Kevin’s knol.

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