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This is where I keep notes on brewing rather than on beans: water, ratios, temperature, timing, and the equipment that sits between a bag of coffee and a cup of it. The beans change every few weeks. The habits around them change much more slowly, and those are what I keep forgetting.

The tap water here is hard enough to leave a ring in the kettle after a week, which shapes most of what follows. If your water is soft, several of these entries will read as a list of problems you do not have.

Nothing is sponsored and nothing was sent to me. Most of the kit was bought second-hand, and at least one piece of it was a mistake that I have written about at more length than it deserves.