Dialing In Your Daily Brew
Like Duolingo, but for Dialing In Your Daily Brew. 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: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Mastering the Extraction Loop and The Chemistry of Flavor. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Dialing In Your Daily Brew
- Acids and salts are the most soluble compounds
- Sensory markers of over-extraction
- Under-extraction and balancing sugars
- Tannins and polyphenols in over-extraction
- Identifying the taste profile of under-extraction
- Recognizing the sensory markers of over-extraction
- Sugar extraction peaks after acids but just before the heavy bitter compounds take over
- Liquid color is often misleading as even under-extracted coffee can look dark
- The sweet spot is the point of maximum complexity where sweetness masks the inherent acidity
- The 'mouthfeel' or tactile finish provides a more accurate map of which compounds were extracted
- Defining the 'Sweet Spot' in the extraction timeline
- Channeling creates high-velocity streams that over-extract some grounds while bypassing others
- The resulting cup lacks balance because it contains both under-extracted salts and over-extracted tannins
- Prioritizing tactile feedback over visual cues for quality
- The impact of uneven water flow
- Finer grinds increase total surface area for faster dissolution
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 Dialing In Your Daily Brew 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 your coffee leaves your mouth feeling uncomfortably dry after you swallow, what is likely happening?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Dialing In Your Daily Brew takes you
Move beyond following recipes to mastering the variables of extraction. Learn to diagnose your cup by taste and manipulate water chemistry to unlock the perfect brew.
- 1
Mastering the Extraction Loop
- The Extraction Spectrum
- The Variables of Control
- The Dialing-In Workflow
- 2
The Chemistry of Flavor
- Water: The Invisible Ingredient
- Processing and Bean Density
2 sections · 5 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Dialing In Your Daily Brew 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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