Figuring out the amount of coffee to use when brewing up your own coffee can make a cup of Joe either relaxing or frustrating. Typically, you are supposed to use two teaspoons of ground coffee per 6 oz of water (or one cup of water). With that said, the amount of coffee grounds to use still varies.
Why do the ground coffee amounts vary?
The first thing that will affect how much coffee to use is the type of coffee you use. Darker roasts, such as an Italian roast, a French roast, or even a Colombian roast, will cause the flavor of the coffee to be much stronger and perhaps much bitter (if you are not familiar with the taste of such dark blends).
Second, as easy as it sounds, most people just miscalculate the amount of “dosage” to use. Ensure that your are measuring both your coffee grounds and your water correctly.
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Here are some fun little coffee facts and statistics:
27% of US coffee drinkers add a sweetener or sugar to their coffee Over 7 million tons of green (unroasted) coffee beans are produced worldwide. Most of these beans are hand picked by workers in the fields. Hawaii is the only state in the United States that produces coffee. If you count the US territory of Puerto Rico as a state, then the United States of America has two coffee producing states. Germans consume about 16 pounds of coffee per person yearly. This makes Germany not only a large consumer of beer - but the second largest consumer of coffee in the world! More than 50 countries produce and grow coffee worldwide. However, not one of these countries the coffee boundary, which encompasses the regions between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn (including the Equator) Previously, until about the 1900’s, coffee was roasted in a frying pan over a charcoal or wood fire.
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