Coffee-to-Water Ratio Comparator
Every coffee ratio calculator we checked applies one ratio per brewing method — its own, unattributed, or (once) traced to a single named standard — then lets you nudge it with a "strength" slider. None showed what named specialty roasters' own published brew guides actually recommend, side by side. We fetched three directly: for pour-over, Stumptown, Counter Culture and Intelligentsia disagree by about 8% — enough to change a 20 g dose by 27 g of water, roughly two tablespoons. For French press, the same three roasters land within 4% of each other.
sca.coffee-controlled URL this session reached a page that did
not itself state the number — only third-party mirrors did, and this site does not publish a
figure it cannot point to on the source's own page.
Why pour-over disagrees more than French press
None of the three pages explains the gap, so we are not going to invent a mechanism for them. What is checkable is the pattern itself: pour-over lets water pass through the grounds once, so a roaster's ratio choice is also a choice about how much of the coffee's soluble content ends up in the cup versus left behind — a fairly sensitive dial. French press steeps the grounds in still water for several minutes regardless of ratio, which likely leaves less room for that particular disagreement, but that is our inference from the two numbers, not a claim any of the three roasters make.
What this does not do
- It does not tell you which ratio makes better coffee — that is a taste preference each roaster is explicit about wanting you to adjust.
- It covers three specialty roasters' own guides, not every brewing authority. Use the custom-ratio field for a fourth source, or your own recipe.
- It does not include the SCA's Golden Cup figure — see the note above for why.