A Lesson From Espresso

As I have always contended, we can learn many valuable lessons from coffee. This week's lesson is on the principle of over extraction.

If the water spends too much time with the ground coffee, over extraction occurs. What usually causes this problem is the adjustment of the grinder in an espresso machine or coffee grinder. When the bean is ground too finely, for the amount of time spent with water, the coffee over extracts and becomes bitter.

This Bean has certainly been overly grinded and over extracted over the past week! The test now is not to become bitter in the process.

Spending so much time away from my little beans (daughters) and momma bean (wife) has proven to be more challenging than I had anticipated.