How To Make Pour Over Coffee

Our Head Roaster's Instructions

You’ve just purchased your first bag of Spirit Mountain Coffee. Great! This is the first step to brewing the perfect cup of coffee. All of Spirit Mountain’s coffee beans are roasted to order, ensuring you will have the freshest beans possible. Freshly roasted, quality beans are a prerequisite for a great result.
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Just as important as quality coffee is clean, fresh water. Tap water typically has chlorine added which can significantly affect the final taste in a negative way. Spring water is best. Distilled water has been stripped of all minerals, the minerals are an important part of the flavor profile and should be present, so distilled isn’t recommended either. Clean water + fresh beans = delicious coffee.

Pour over coffee requires a little more time than the drip method, but the results are usually worth it. You are able to control variables such as temperature and water flow more easily than with most drip machines. You’ll need a few things for this method:

1. Spirit Mountain Coffee
2. Clean, fresh water.
3. An electric kettle - or some other way to heat your water such as a pot and a thermometer.
4. A pour over coffee maker with filter. The Hario V60 is a quality, reasonably priced model if you are looking to pick one up.
5. A mug.

Instructions:

• Measure your beans:  A good baseline ratio of coffee to water is 2 tablespoons of whole bean coffee for every 8 oz. of water.  Remember that this is a starting point and you can adjust to your specific tastes as you go.
• Grind beans to medium-coarse - think sea salt, slightly coarser than the beach sand.​​​

• Heat water in your electric kettle. You can also use a pot on a stove and with a thermometer to measure temperature. The water is ready when it reaches 205 degrees fahrenheit. If you do not have a thermometer wait about 45 seconds after the water starts boiling. Heat is lost during the pour and saturation of beans so use water that is slightly higher than target temperature.
• Place coffee maker and filter on your mug.
• Add ground beans to your coffee filter.
• When the water has finished heating, pour a small amount of it over the grounds - just enough to wet the grounds. Allow grounds to soak for about 30 seconds. Fresh grounds will bubble as they off gas.
• Continue pouring water over the grounds, pausing to prevent overfill as necessary.
• Stop when your mug has the desired amount of coffee per ratio used.
  
  

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