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Letting the Coffee Bed Run Dry: Tool or Sin?
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- Apr 30, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit with a question that's been quietly bothering me about pour over brewing. Why are we so afraid to let the coffee bed run completely dry? It's one of those rules in the specialty coffee world that gets repeated until it feels like law: keep water on the bed, never let it dry out, race your next pour in before the surface cracks. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to just test it. I brewed an Ethiopian white honey coffee two ways. One with a careful Melodri...