Brewing Your Best Cup
Like Duolingo, but for Brewing Your Best Cup. 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.
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Key ideas in Brewing Your Best Cup
- Acids and salts dissolve first in the brewing process
- Sharpness/sourness is a sign of under-extraction
- Sugars and oils follow to provide balance
- Identifying the flavor profile associated with extraction levels
- Heavy, bitter compounds are the last to be extracted
- Increasing contact time allows more sweetness to dissolve
- Adjusting brew time to fix a specific flavor defect
- Acidity is the first stage of extraction
- Bitterness is the final stage of extraction
- The sequence of flavor extraction during a brew
- Boiling water (212°F/100°C) is too hot for coffee extraction
- Heat accelerates the extraction of different flavor compounds
- Excessive heat 'cooks' or burns the delicate oils in the bean
- Lower temperatures fail to extract the sugars and oils that balance acidity
- Over-extraction from high heat leads to harsh, bitter flavors
- Higher temperatures pull out astringent compounds
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 Your Best Cup 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.
You take a sip and it's unpleasantly sharp and sour. What happened to your brew?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Brewing Your Best Cup takes you
Stop settling for bitter office coffee and start making cafe-quality drinks at home. Learn how to fix your brew, develop your palate, and choose the perfect beans for your taste.
- 1
Fix Your Morning Brew
- Why Your Coffee Tastes Sour or Bitter
- Getting the Water Temperature Right
- The Secret to Freshness
- Measuring Like a Pro Without a Scale
- 2
Taste and Shop Like an Expert
- Finding the Flavors You Actually Like
- Decoding the Labels on a Coffee Bag
- Light vs. Dark Roasts
- The Difference Between Arabica and Robusta
- How to Talk to Your Local Barista
- Storing Your Beans to Keep the Flavor
- 3
The Journey From Farm to Cup
- How Soil and Altitude Change the Taste
- What Happens Inside the Roaster
- The Global History of Your Favorite Drink
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Brewing Your Best Cup 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 Your Best Cup today.
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