Coffee is a simple beverage made up of just two things: ground coffee and water. But what coffee to water ratio delivers the most satisfying cup? There’s an easy answer to this difficult question: it’s subjective.

We’re big believers in playing with coffee ratios – you brew you. But before you start improvising, it helps to start with solid guidance. Use the following suggestions as a starting point and then adjust, adapt and shift to your palette’s preference.

OUR RECOMMENDED RATIO

If hearing the word ‘ratio’ brings back visions of 5th grade math, never fear. Ratios provide an infinitely scalable framework, whatever you’re starting your morning .

Our suggested coffee ratio is 1:16, which means one part coffee to sixteen parts water.

Weighing out the coffee and water will give you the best results . For those without a scale, you can start with two tablespoons of ground coffee to six ounces of water heated to about 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

Your main goal in brewing coffee is to optimize the extraction . This means providing enough water to dissolve all of the soluble compounds tied up in that ground coffee. And you’ll know it when you find it.

Do you remember the first time you had a coffee that really popped? The aroma, the taste flooding your palette? Perfectly extracted, leaving nothing in the filter. That’s our goal.

“Our preferred ratio is 28 grams coffee to 453 grams or milliliters of water.”