Pour-over coffee looks simple—and it is.
But a few small details can completely change what ends up in your cup.
Here’s a simple Kainos method you can use every morning.
What You’ll Need
20g coffee
320g hot water
Medium-fine ground coffee
Pour-over dripper + filter
Kettle
Scale
No scale? Start with roughly 3 tablespoons of whole coffee beans before grinding and about 11 oz of water.
1. Heat Your Water
Bring your water to roughly 195–205°F.
No temperature-controlled kettle? Bring the water to a boil, remove it from the heat, and give it a short moment before brewing.
2. Rinse Your Filter
Place the paper filter inside your brewer and rinse it with hot water.
This helps remove papery flavors while warming your brewer and cup.
Discard the rinse water.
3. Add Your Coffee
Grind 20g of coffee to a medium-fine consistency and gently level the coffee bed.
Think finer than typical drip coffee, but not nearly as fine as espresso.
4. Don't Skip the Bloom 🌱
Start by pouring about 40–60g of water over the grounds—just enough to wet all of them.
Wait approximately 30–45 seconds.
You may see the coffee swell and bubble.
That's the bloom, as gases trapped in freshly roasted coffee begin escaping.
5. Pour Slowly
Continue adding your remaining water in slow, controlled circles, working mostly over the coffee bed rather than pouring aggressively against the paper.
You don't have to pour all 320g at once.
Pour gradually until you reach your total.
6. Let It Finish
Allow the water to draw down through the coffee.
Your total brew should generally land somewhere around 2½–3½ minutes, though the coffee, brewer and grind can change that.
Then remove the brewer, give your coffee a gentle swirl...
…and enjoy.
☕ THE KAINOS TIP
Your grind is one of your easiest flavor controls.
Coffee tasting sour, thin or watery?
Try grinding a little finer.
Coffee tasting harsh, overly bitter or dry?
Try grinding a little coarser.
Change one thing at a time so you can actually taste what made the difference.
Want to experiment?
Try this exact recipe with different Kainos coffees.
The brewing method stays the same—but you'll begin noticing how different coffees reveal different sweetness, acidity, aroma and body.
That's when you're no longer just making coffee. You're learning how to coffee.™