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Espresso guidelines
Read more →At Drop Coffee Roasters we choose to highlight each individual coffee and its characteristics as good as we can, be it for espresso or filter; for us espresso is simply another way of extracting flavour from coffee. The first step in brewing any cup of coffee is to decide on the brew ratio, coffee in relation to water. For espresso, we usually dose based on basket size, for us this is generally 18g VST filter baskets, altering only slightly in order to optimize head space above the coffee grounds, and aim in most cases for a 1/2 ratio, altering the...