Brewing Better Coffee at Home
Like Duolingo, but for Brewing Better Coffee at Home. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Perfect Cup and Developing Your Palate. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Brewing Better Coffee at Home
- Darker roasted beans are less dense and take up more space than light ones
- The 1:16 ratio means 16 grams of water for every 1 gram of coffee
- A scale ensures the exact same amount of coffee material is used regardless of bean size
- Calculating total water by multiplying coffee weight by 16
- Volume measurements like scoops are inconsistent due to air gaps between beans
- 1:16 is the standard starting point for a balanced strength
- Why measuring by weight is superior to measuring by volume
- Applying the 1:16 ratio to a standard brew
- Boiling water can scorch grounds
- Letting water sit off the boil
- Why measuring by weight is superior
- Ideal extraction temperature
- Fresh coffee contains trapped CO2
- Applying the 1:16 ratio
- Gas bubbles push water away
- The bloom phase
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Brewing Better Coffee at Home the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you are following the standard 1:16 ratio, how many grams of water do you need for every 1 gram of coffee beans?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where Brewing Better Coffee at Home takes you
Stop settling for bitter or sour cups. Learn the simple adjustments that turn your morning routine into a cafe-quality experience using the gear you already own.
- 1
The Perfect Cup
- The Golden Ratio
- Dialing in Your Grind
- 2
Developing Your Palate
- Buying Beans with Intention
2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Brewing Better Coffee at Home is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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Start Brewing Better Coffee at Home today.
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