Brew method
Batch Brew grind size & ratio
Drip brewing at volume — a litre or more at once. The method cafés use for filter coffee, and the one most sensitive to bed depth.
Batch Brew grind setting on popular grinders
“Medium” is a different number on every grinder. These are worked out from each model’s own dial curve rather than a generic chart.
| Grinder | Batch Brew setting |
|---|---|
| 1Zpresso JX-Pro | 138 clicks |
| 1Zpresso X-Ultra | 133 clicks |
| 1Zpresso ZP6 Special | 57 clicks |
| Baratza Encore | 24 |
| Comandante C40 MK4 | 29 clicks |
| Eureka Mignon Specialita | 1+3.5 |
| Fellow Ode Gen 2 | 6.2 |
| KINGrinder K6 | 94 clicks |
| Mahlkönig EK43 | 11 |
| Niche Zero | 31.7 |
| Timemore C3 | 18 clicks |
| Timemore Sculptor 078 | 7 |
How batch brew works
A larger dose means a deeper bed, and water takes longer to move through it. That extra contact time is why batch brew sits a touch coarser than a single-cup drip.
Even saturation is the whole game at this scale. Most batch brewers have a fixed showerhead pattern, so dose and grind are what you have to work with.
Brewed volume holds temperature and keeps extracting in the pot. Serve within about half an hour; after that the difference is obvious.
When it tastes wrong
Grind finer, or increase the dose slightly.
Grind coarser, and check the bed is being wetted evenly across its whole surface.
The common mistake
Scaling a single-cup recipe linearly and keeping the same grind. Bigger batches need a coarser grind, not just proportionally more coffee.
Your grinder, your number
Convert this grind to your grinder
Batch Brew sits at grind index 52 on BrewMark’s 0–100 scale. The converter turns that into the real number or click count on any of 78 models.
Open the grind converter →Batch Brew recipes from the community
Brews logged on real equipment, each with the grinder setting that produced it.
- Stumptown · Batch brewHair BenderBaratza Virtuoso+ at 20 · 1:16
- Intelligentsia · Batch brewBlack Cat ClassicFellow Ode Gen 2 at 6 · 1:15.5
- Stumptown · Batch brewTrapper CreekBaratza Vario+ at 130 · 1:15
- Blue Bottle · Batch brewThree AfricasComandante C40 MK4 at 28 clicks · 1:17
- Counter Culture · Batch brewBig TroubleOXO Brew Conical Burr Grinder at 10 · 1:16
- Peets Coffee · Batch brewMajor Dickasons BlendBaratza Virtuoso+ at 24 · 1:14.5
- Onyx Coffee Lab · Batch brewTropical WeatherFellow Ode Gen 2 at 5 · 1:16.5
- Blue Bottle · Batch brewGiant StepsTimemore Chestnut X at 20 clicks · 1:15.5
- La Colombe · Batch brewBleuFellow Ode Gen 2 at 7 · 1:15
- Heart · Batch brewStereo BlendFellow Opus at 16 · 1:17.5
- Onyx Coffee Lab · Batch brewEclipse1Zpresso K-Max at 75 clicks · 1:14.5
- Counter Culture · Batch brewHologramBaratza Encore at 18 · 1:17
Dial-in charts by grinder
Every brew method's setting for one specific model, espresso through cold brew.
- ComandanteC40 MK4 grind settings
- EurekaMignon Silenzio grind settings
- FellowOpus grind settings
- KINGrinderK6 grind settings
- MahlkönigEK43 S grind settings
- NormcoreManual V2 grind settings
- PorlexTall II grind settings
- TimemoreC3S grind settings
- TurinDF83 V2 grind settings
- WilfaUniform grind settings
- 1ZpressoQ2 grind settings
- BaratzaSette 270 grind settings