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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
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The side of the bag says 2 tablespoons for every six ounces of water. My basic drip coffeer maker brews 12 cups to fill the pot. That's 32 tablespoons.
Advice on how to make it in the drip maker? Edit: I'll just measure a half pot's worth and see how I like it. :-)
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Wholelattelove says, per some Specialty Coffee Association or something similar with apparent authority, 1:15 - 1:17 by mass for automatic drip. Pick a ratio, a bean and roast will "prefer" somewhere in there with the extremes favoring various characters. Then play with grind size to find your preferred extraction in that particular machine/system.
First you need to figure out how large your "cups" are on the machine - there is no standard. Then, recalling that 1 mL of water is 1 gram, dose the appropriate mass.
Get a digital scale - there are decent ones with 500g capacity that read to the 0.01g available for under 30USD. You can be precise and consistent, but for life-critical things like coffee of course you could, like reloading cartridges with powder, learn the typical apparent density of your grounds to get a standardized (for those beans and that grind) volume. At least here, a mis-dose won't be more dramatic than a bad cuppa'.
You'll probably find that you go through more coffee beans than you used to. Most of us are used to thin, over extracted and over roasted (thanks $tarbux!) brew. Drink better quality - less volume if you need to.