/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2551475
>I've been using a french press but it still tastes the ass. what is the trick?

Your water is too hot. Use water between 80-85C.

Water temp is the biggest factor in how coffee tastes for regular grocery store coffee. You don't need a fancy burr grinder, you don't need to roast your own beans, you don't need starbucks beans with 3x markup of normal coffee. I buy walmarts own brand grinds which are barely a step above folgers (worst coffee you can buy) and it makes fine coffee in a french press. I took that same coffee to work and put it in a dogshit bunn brewer which is internally set to boiling temperature and it becomes undrinkable. The bunn brewer is so bad that only the most expensive beans taste good in it.