A tale of grams, scoops, and what happens when you are not paying attention.
Long story short I was telling Staylor I used the provided scoop to measure coffee for the Yama and
not a gram scale....
he gave me the stink eye.
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We did some testing and (surprise) scoops are not very consistent.
Fast forward to my bat cave where I proceeded to put 5 scoops of beans (what the included directions call for) onto my scale about 30-40 times looking for trends.
An important note is that all I have done so far is follow the recommended dose of 5 scoops per 5 cup pot. So I started weighing....
50g
55g
55g
54g
60g
58g
55g
55g
60g
55g
I was finding 55g to come up a lot but for whatever reason I figured I would try my highest mark and loaded 60g of coffee for a 5 cup pot..
Don't get ahead of the story! ![Grin ;D](https://www.greencoffeebuyingclub.com/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
I brewed a 60g batch and the bloom flew up to the absolute max without overflowing.
Everything else went along just fine and the cup was...................good. It was a Brazil blend that had tons of milk chocolate in the cup. It had a SUPER profound depth to the cup but about half way into the mug I started feeling like I just drank 6 doubles or something. I started thinking it over. Man 60g is a lot of coffee for a 20oz mug. How freaking much caffiene is in this cup?
I came to this thread to refresh my memory of what Chad recommended for grams of coffee and it was.. 37.5 I was 60% over.
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No wonder the bloom was so humongous.
I am not surprised at all about my "leisurely" ready, fire, aim approach but I am surprised at how drinkable that cup was when it was so far out of spec. It should have been an over extracted nightmare but it wasn't. If I had not had 3 doubles and a "regulation" 20oz mug of drip earlier in the day I would have finished it but 1/2 is all I could do before I was getting jumpy. Rare for me but I was feeling it in a big way and only when I discovered I was 60% over did I understand why.
60g it's interesting.
![Grin ;D](https://www.greencoffeebuyingclub.com/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Anyway, from here forward I think I'll be dialing it down several notches but in case anybody is wondering about superdosing the Yama I found it makes a cup that is much more drinkable than I expected.....dangerously so I might add and my next pot will be 20g lighter.
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John F