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 and Decoding the Bean. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Dialing in Your Daily Brew
- Finer grinds expose more surface area to water for faster extraction
- Acids are the first compounds to dissolve during the brewing process
- Coarse grinds have less surface area and require longer contact time
- Sweetness and sugars require more time to extract than acids
- Increasing surface area allows water to pull flavors out of the bean faster
- Under-extraction leaves the cup dominated by early-stage acidity
- How surface area dictates the speed of flavor extraction
- Identifying sourness as a symptom of under-extraction
- The Salami Shot separates a single extraction into timed stages
- Soluble acids dissolve instantly at the start of the brew
- Sugars follow acids, while bitter compounds exit the bean last
- Over-extraction pulls out heavy, astringent tannins
- Bitterness is the final stage of the extraction sequence
- Astringency creates a physical drying sensation in the mouth
- Uniform particle size ensures all coffee extracts at the same rate
- Recognizing the sensory markers of over-extraction
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.
Which flavor parts are the very first to jump out of the coffee bean and into your water?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Dialing in Your Daily Brew takes you
Move beyond the basic recipe and learn to manipulate the variables of extraction to craft the perfect cup every morning.
- 1
Mastering the Extraction
- The Grind Size Lever
- Water Temperature and Chemistry
- The Physics of the Pour
- 2
Decoding the Bean
- Processing and Roast Profiles
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Dialing in Your Daily Brew is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. 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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