First Brew

19th Oct, 2025

After sipping instant coffee for years, I finally bade bye to it and bought an Aeropress!

Today, I brewed my first cup and it was okay—not that great! I messed up the water temperature. And that affected the brewing.

But that's okay, I'll brew better tomorrow. At least, I figured out what went wrong.

And that's not all. I also learned the variables at play in Aeropress brewing:

1. Coffee-to-water ratio
2. Grind size
3. Brew time
4. Water temperature
5. Agitation

(Thanks to Aravind for walking me through all these)

Now that I know the variables, I'm gonna play around with them.

Here's my plan: I'll pick one variable out of the five and change only that while keeping everything else the same for the next 6 days. And I'll document my observations.

I'm gonna start with the variable: Grind size.

My coffee grinder has settings from 1 to 6. So for the next six days, I'll try a different grind size each day and log what happens.

On day seven, I'll look back and figure out which grind size I liked most.

Tomorrow's grind size: 6.