Coffee Bypass and Even Extraction: Make Water Work Through the Bed

Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Coffee brewing assumes that water and ground coffee meet each other fairly. In reality, water is lazy. It follows the easiest path through the brewer, and that path is not always through the coffee bed. It can slide down the filter wall, rush through a crack, pool in one section, or skip dry grounds near the edge. Bypass is the name for brewed water that reaches the cup without doing its share of extraction.

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Coffee Bypass and Even Extraction: Make Water Work Through the Bed