How I Dial-In Espresso - Part #1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2019
- The first in a series, in the future top tier Patreon backers will get to pick the coffee I dial in. For 2 months of Skillshare free, click here: skl.sh/jameshoffmann3
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Great video! Strangely I feel like there is a market for a pack of cards with your facial expressions on after tasting each shot, that could be used as comparators for when we're dialling in.
Hahaha!
Jordan Morphew Still waiting for this, it’s been a month.
Agreed, or how about James Hoffman emoticons!
Still waiting for this
Or a coveted sticker of his facial expression when he likes a coffee. Such a sticker could be placed on only the best beans which meet with his approval; kind of like a number of stars rating but based on facial expressions!
i appreciate james is looking as sleepy as i am watching this video in the morning.
I was still recovering from the World's Largest Cupping
@@jameshoffmann that cupping was aaawesome!! Finally my Girlfriend is into coffee :D So thanks you so much!!!
An espresso series? Woohoo!
Tom B hell yeah!
This is the series I've always needed! Watching a master work through a dialling in is just enormously helpful. Thank you James, can't wait for the next installment!
OMG this has got to be the most concise well presented easy to follow espresso dialing video I've watched. I've been pulling shots at home for 3 years now and I have this video is exactly what I had been looking for this whole time! Thanks James for the quality content.
How calming it is to see one of your videos in the morning, paired with some coffee.
Excellent work James !
I've just got my flairespresso and this series arrives right on time!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos !
So glad this is a series you're doing. Always trying to teach my baristas how to taste and adjust, you summed a lot of what I teach into a lovely vid. Thank you James
We need more of this series!!!! This is everything! Thank youuuuu
I'm quite looking forward to the next video. There's never too much learning and sharing to be done. Knowledge is immensely powerful
The video title threw me for a moment as I work for the cafe chain Coffee #1! Really interesting video James, thank you as ever for sharing your bountiful knowledge.
Really enjoyed The video with James adding his thought processes throughout the entire dialling process.
Learnt a lot, keep up the good work!
Brilliant approach in this video, loved the shot tables with breakdowns of the different elements. Perfect for me since I love bright, light roasts. Awesome to watch a master at work and see Hoffman alter the rules and push the bean further and further out the extraction timeline.
U single handedly made me get back into coffee after20 years. Even though my tolerance for coffee is weak, still love it. Wake up excited
SO THRILLED FOR THIS SERIES!!! It’s what I need!!! Super appreciative!
Very interesting video James! Thank you for all the work you do with making coffee more accessible, no matter the medium
That’s an amazing series you’ve started there, well done!
Nice, is good to see your process and how you’re thinking about the changes.
Look forward to the next.
Finally. An amazing video about dialling espresso in on TH-cam.
Thanks James , as a self taught amateur Batista who owns a restaurant, these kind of videos are invaluable for me to gain insights from a professional, I struggle sometimes to diall in light roasts so will use this technique. Tks again
Brilliant!! No nonsens, straight to the point, easy to transfer and take back home to explore. Appreciate your efforts.
Just got a (admittedly a probably too simple) espresso machine and working my way through to get something enjoyable out of it. I appreciate what you're doing here, really helpful.
I don't have an espresso machine but I just love watching James talk about coffee
it is delightfully meditative and a relaxing way to escape the troubles of this era
This is my favorite TH-cam channel at the moment. You are fantastic Sir
I'm a little late to this party but loving your channel for the past two weeks and I loved this series!
Beautifully shot! One thing I'd like to see here is information about adjusting the grind and grind retention depending on the grinder you're using. A lot of beginners make the mistake of adjusting the grind but then not Seeing the result of that adjustment in their next shot, due to grind retention.
Might be helpful to talk about how much coffee you waste during dialing in, when to waste coffee, and how to limit that waste.
Keep Frothin'✌️
Love the idea of this series, keep them coming.
I'm so glad we're diving into espresso! Thanks for the amazing video James!
Thank you so much for your videos! I dig them all. I especially like these dial in ones. They help to better understand the time, the grind, the ratio, the pressure, the temperature, and the dose contributing together So much easier to process with examples. Super fun to learn the finer points. Cheers! ⬛️
Thank you for sharing your method mr. Hoffman
This is fascinating, I'm coming close to a decade of coffee making. I have recently found that dialing in yield first via taste and then adjusting the time gives me better results. I love how diverse coffee making is. I havent had a machine with volumetrics for a while, but in the last venue we worked in, we did. I always tell my staff "Time is good, yield is better."
:-) "Time is good, yield is better." :-)
A while back you mentioned that you might do this video/series and I am so stoked that it is finally happening. So many videos about dialing in don't take roast level into account and all they do is talk about the basics of using a scale, dosing by weight, and weighing/timing your shots. I am very excited to see the rest of this series actually talking about results, adjusting ratio's, brew time, and grind levels. I would also be interested to hear what kinds of temperature your are using for the various shots and if you think it has a significant impact on brewing or if you think it doesn't really affect things. It was fascinating to me to see your ratio of almost 1:2.5 for a light roast, where I usually am closer to 1:1.5 for lighter roast. Thanks again, this is going to be a great series.
excellent! love this series on how you tackle different/various coffees.
This video is amazing. A NEW ESPRESSO SERIES!
This made my day! Finally an in-depth espresso series!!
Lovely! Can't wait for the future series!
Really great idea of making this series! Thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing this, James. For the last year I've pretty much only had filter at home and my espresso setup has been languishing in a corner untouched as a result. This has spurred me to fire up the machine and grinder again and pour some shots.
James, for over 10 years I have been making espresso on a good machine with a good grinder, even roasting my own coffee because freshness was so key I found, yet I was rarely happy with how my espresso came out. Through your videos, I am finally starting to see how much I don't know and how much I can do to improve the flavour of my espresso. I appreciate your knowledge but even more than that, the clarity with which you are able to bring that knowledge across, thank you!
I love it James! Please keep them coming!
This is class, exactly the kind of series i needed! Can’t wait for more of these for other types of beans
FINALY James! Series I was waiting for! Thank you!
Please speak in more depth about:
- connections beteen volume out & extraction in taste
- relationship b. Concentration vs. Extraction
- flaws in tastes, corrections, how & why it works
- tempreture & effect - if need to change light vs. dark roasts
- single dose grinding (more prevelent in home-barista settings I think)
Looking forward for more from you! Thx
Thank you for the step-by-step walk through, and for showing close-up high quality detail. Basically this is the video I prescribe for friends who have espresso machines. Do part 2!
As a manager teaching others to dial in, I appreciate this video a lot. For my personal gratitude, I feel satisfied and justified in my training methods watching this. The language used to describe flavor and the explanations of adjustment based off of that language is almost exact to mine. Knowing I can convey similar to identical messages about dialing is so reassuring. I also appreciate this video isn't a cover-all for dialing espresso. Every coffee is different, and requires a case-by-case analysis for adjustment. I literally had an employee ask me today, "Josh, how can I get better at this?" I replied with "Tasting lots of coffee and practicing," which this video emphasizes simply by being a series. Awesome first video
Exactly the video (series!) I have been waiting for. I learned a lot (conceptually) from this short video. Many many questions.
How apt that you put this up just as I’m dialing in a new coffee. Thanks👍 also great cupping last Sunday, now enjoying a different pour over every day with the left overs. 😁
Now this is great - as a home barista I have a keen awareness of how different coffees can take alternate routes to dial in. Very interested to see your approach to different coffees. I was dismayed the first time I tried dialing in a light roast like this - it was very counter intuitive after the darker roasts I had been doing but no-one had told me it would be that different, I had to learn through a lot of shots and wasted coffee. So doing this series will help waste less coffee in future, a noble objective in itself. Good work Mr Hoffman!
Finally! Been waiting for this ever since I subscribed to your channel.
Really appreciate this James, you make excellent videos.
Awesome video James!
Love your content
love coffee, love espresso and love James ...
Thanks James for this series, I'm diving more into straight espresso. I'm still developing my palate so I'm still figuring out what good espresso should taste like. Really looking forward to this series.
Same! I tried doing a "salami shot" to get a better idea of what the range in flavors, from weak & bitter to intensely sour can taste like, but still trying to pick them up when actually tasting! I wish I could get someone to make me a "perfect shot" and then guide me to matching that taste.
@@nicholasgarza951 Yeah that's my struggle, not really sure what good tastes like. I usually drink long black drinks or some milky boys which helps tame a bad shot.
I think your best bet is to try espresso from lots of different places and see what they are like. Even from some of the chains.
I’m in this same position now. Would be curious to hear how you’re doing 3 years later. What have you learned?
@Aaron Boggs I think the biggest thing I learned is to not necessarily worry what a "good" shot tastes like, but find the flavors that you really like in the espresso by trying many different beans. With each of those beans, get your basic dial-in and then experiment from there, grind a little finer, then coarser, was one of those better? Try different ratios and see how that affects things.
I don't necessarily taste the things they say on the bag but I've found the types of beans I like, and I like the funky flavors. Light roasted naturals especially Ethiopians, and other odd processing. I tend to stay away from traditional espresso roasts (too dark)
Hi James, you're doing a great job.
Thanks for this video... I know it's been out for a while, but I just got a Flair 58x and realized that there were some things I needed to learn about dialing in a shot with the coffee I'm using. This answered a lot of questions for me, and gave me a couple that I didn't have before.
Thanks James! Great timing too, I just started roasting my own coffee yesterday. Hopefully this will help me get the most out of it.
James you are amazing. Incredible video.
This will be a useful series for me to watch. Great idea.
Can't wait for more of these tips!
Excellent. Look forward to the next episodes.
Been waiting for this for ages!!! Just bought your book btw. Amazing stuff.
Thank you!
Fascinating. There's so much I don't know. I just started getting a little more serious about my espresso game because I wasn't satisfied with the taste of my coffee. All this info truly helps.
This is an awesome series! As one who loves espresso but does not work with it, this is such a good educational opportunity!
Espresso series is definately a great idea! 😍
Got to work this morning and watched to while dialing in my machine. Great stuff
This is what I've been waiting for!
Love it! Thank you so much! Really looking forward to all other styles you will be showing. I do struggle sometimes with the lighter roasts, however once done properly they can turn out very rewarding :)
Great series idea! Can't wait!
appreciated it so much, it’s such an important knowledges to go with ! Thank you sirr 💯
Really enjoyed this James! Treating myself to a Sage Smart Grinder later this year before I’m moving toward picking up an espresso machine and letting the Aeropress gather a little bit of dust... Look forward to being able to enjoy engaging with these videos more! Thanks!
What a great idea! for next episodes, I would like to see all the individual charts of modifications and results in one frame. This way, I can better see what adjustments were made at the end! Thank you
Excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
Your contents just keep getting better.
Looking forward to future episodes in this series.
I want more or this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!
Will love this series!
I FREAKING LOVE THIS
Excellent video. FINALLY something past "grind", "distribute", "tamp", "brew", "...and that's how you make espresso..." I have been looking for something more in depth like this. Please continue. Just subscribed!
Greatly appreciated, thanks for this video!
Fantastic idea. Can't wait to see more.
Thought I'd seen enough dialing in and recipes videos (like barista hustle's). But as always I had no regrets clicking the video in my feed :)
Thanks James! Inciteful as always.
Awaiting the next one James!
Cool, can't wait for it to come out
This is really good! I’m a relatively new barista at a shop in the Dallas, Texas area and dialing in is not my strong suit. I always have to wait on someone else to really look at it.
This helps me at least understand it in theory!
Looking forward to the second one!
THIS is the video I have been looking for! i am brand new to espresso and now get a good idea of how to “search” for the best tasting shot. Well done.
fantastic, just what i want to see. a series of different coffees, getting to know your thoughtprocess! thanks alot!
Love this series
Watching from the Philippines! Cant wait for the next videos.
Please do more videos in this series. Love it
Name of episode should also contain "Every barista should know this"
True I wish I understood this stuff, but I work at a place that's kinda similar to Starbucks, and my training didn't include anything about this.
@@christopherpape4823 I worked at places like that too, and believe me, I had to do a lot of self learning. Most of what I learned were from online, since the only thing they taught me back then was how to actually put the coffee in, press the button and steam the milk. It was only through constant effort of self learning and job trialing that I was able to improve myself and get a greater job, in which I could learn more.
Thanks a lot, James! Your videos are very inspiring!)))
This I so needed as a new espresso dialer!
Just the vid i was waiting for!!! Thank you
Definitely looking forward for more roast levels dialing in espresso!!!! Please "keep them coming" thanks!
This was a great help thanks so much!!!
I was struggling to extract a light roast and this video was super useful to me thanks alot james
Yes!! More of these !!
Someone just adjusted their brew ratio to achieve better extraction... guess we can include that in brew recipes after all ;-)
Stoked for an espresso series, thanks James!
Yes this is what I need 😊