Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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You've opened a fresh bag of coffee, ground at your usual settings, started your pour over and straight away... you can see it is going horribly wrong. Today's video will explore a few tweaks you can make to your pour over coffee mid-brew to rescue it.

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00:00 When It All Goes Wrong
03:21 When You’ve Ground Too Fine
06:36 When You’ve Ground Too Coarse
12:06 Closing Thoughts

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