Great video! Strangely I feel like there is a market for a pack of cards with your facial expressions on after tasting each shot, that could be used as comparators for when we're dialling in.

i appreciate james is looking as sleepy as i am watching this video in the morning.

This is the series I've always needed! Watching a master work through a dialling in is just enormously helpful. Thank you James, can't wait for the next installment!

OMG this has got to be the most concise well presented easy to follow espresso dialing video I've watched. I've been pulling shots at home for 3 years now and I have this video is exactly what I had been looking for this whole time! Thanks James for the quality content.

How calming it is to see one of your videos in the morning, paired with some coffee. Excellent work James !

So glad this is a series you're doing. Always trying to teach my baristas how to taste and adjust, you summed a lot of what I teach into a lovely vid. Thank you James

I've just got my flairespresso and this series arrives right on time! Always a pleasure to watch your videos !

James, for over 10 years I have been making espresso on a good machine with a good grinder, even roasting my own coffee because freshness was so key I found, yet I was rarely happy with how my espresso came out. Through your videos, I am finally starting to see how much I don't know and how much I can do to improve the flavour of my espresso. I appreciate your knowledge but even more than that, the clarity with which you are able to bring that knowledge across, thank you!

An espresso series? Woohoo!

I'm quite looking forward to the next video. There's never too much learning and sharing to be done. Knowledge is immensely powerful

We need more of this series!!!! This is everything! Thank youuuuu

The video title threw me for a moment as I work for the cafe chain Coffee #1! Really interesting video James, thank you as ever for sharing your bountiful knowledge.

Brilliant approach in this video, loved the shot tables with breakdowns of the different elements. Perfect for me since I love bright, light roasts. Awesome to watch a master at work and see Hoffman alter the rules and push the bean further and further out the extraction timeline.

Brilliant!! No nonsens, straight to the point, easy to transfer and take back home to explore. Appreciate your efforts.

Nice, is good to see your process and how you’re thinking about the changes. Look forward to the next.

Really enjoyed The video with James adding his thought processes throughout the entire dialling process. Learnt a lot, keep up the good work!

Thanks James , as a self taught amateur Batista who owns a restaurant, these kind of videos are invaluable for me to gain insights from a professional, I struggle sometimes to diall in light roasts so will use this technique. Tks again

That’s an amazing series you’ve started there, well done!

Very interesting video James! Thank you for all the work you do with making coffee more accessible, no matter the medium

Just got a (admittedly a probably too simple) espresso machine and working my way through to get something enjoyable out of it. I appreciate what you're doing here, really helpful.

Thank you so much for your videos! I dig them all. I especially like these dial in ones. They help to better understand the time, the grind, the ratio, the pressure, the temperature, and the dose contributing together So much easier to process with examples. Super fun to learn the finer points. Cheers! ⬛️

This is fascinating, I'm coming close to a decade of coffee making. I have recently found that dialing in yield first via taste and then adjusting the time gives me better results. I love how diverse coffee making is. I havent had a machine with volumetrics for a while, but in the last venue we worked in, we did. I always tell my staff "Time is good, yield is better."

Beautifully shot! One thing I'd like to see here is information about adjusting the grind and grind retention depending on the grinder you're using. A lot of beginners make the mistake of adjusting the grind but then not Seeing the result of that adjustment in their next shot, due to grind retention. Might be helpful to talk about how much coffee you waste during dialing in, when to waste coffee, and how to limit that waste. Keep Frothin'✌️

I'm a little late to this party but loving your channel for the past two weeks and I loved this series!

SO THRILLED FOR THIS SERIES!!! It’s what I need!!! Super appreciative!

How apt that you put this up just as I’m dialing in a new coffee. Thanks👍 also great cupping last Sunday, now enjoying a different pour over every day with the left overs. 😁

Love the idea of this series, keep them coming.

Thank you for sharing your method mr. Hoffman

Thank you for sharing this, James. For the last year I've pretty much only had filter at home and my espresso setup has been languishing in a corner untouched as a result. This has spurred me to fire up the machine and grinder again and pour some shots.

excellent! love this series on how you tackle different/various coffees.

Finally. An amazing video about dialling espresso in on KZfaq.

I'm so glad we're diving into espresso! Thanks for the amazing video James!

Thanks for this video... I know it's been out for a while, but I just got a Flair 58x and realized that there were some things I needed to learn about dialing in a shot with the coffee I'm using. This answered a lot of questions for me, and gave me a couple that I didn't have before.

This is my favorite KZfaq channel at the moment. You are fantastic Sir

U single handedly made me get back into coffee after20 years. Even though my tolerance for coffee is weak, still love it. Wake up excited

Really great idea of making this series! Thank you very much.

Lovely! Can't wait for the future series!

I love it James! Please keep them coming!

FINALY James! Series I was waiting for! Thank you! Please speak in more depth about: - connections beteen volume out & extraction in taste - relationship b. Concentration vs. Extraction - flaws in tastes, corrections, how & why it works - tempreture & effect - if need to change light vs. dark roasts - single dose grinding (more prevelent in home-barista settings I think) Looking forward for more from you! Thx

This made my day! Finally an in-depth espresso series!!

Really appreciate this James, you make excellent videos.

Excellent. Look forward to the next episodes.

Exactly the video (series!) I have been waiting for. I learned a lot (conceptually) from this short video. Many many questions.

As a manager teaching others to dial in, I appreciate this video a lot. For my personal gratitude, I feel satisfied and justified in my training methods watching this. The language used to describe flavor and the explanations of adjustment based off of that language is almost exact to mine. Knowing I can convey similar to identical messages about dialing is so reassuring. I also appreciate this video isn't a cover-all for dialing espresso. Every coffee is different, and requires a case-by-case analysis for adjustment. I literally had an employee ask me today, "Josh, how can I get better at this?" I replied with "Tasting lots of coffee and practicing," which this video emphasizes simply by being a series. Awesome first video

This is class, exactly the kind of series i needed! Can’t wait for more of these for other types of beans

This video is amazing. A NEW ESPRESSO SERIES!

Thank you for the step-by-step walk through, and for showing close-up high quality detail. Basically this is the video I prescribe for friends who have espresso machines. Do part 2!

Thanks James! Great timing too, I just started roasting my own coffee yesterday. Hopefully this will help me get the most out of it.

love coffee, love espresso and love James ...

A while back you mentioned that you might do this video/series and I am so stoked that it is finally happening. So many videos about dialing in don't take roast level into account and all they do is talk about the basics of using a scale, dosing by weight, and weighing/timing your shots. I am very excited to see the rest of this series actually talking about results, adjusting ratio's, brew time, and grind levels. I would also be interested to hear what kinds of temperature your are using for the various shots and if you think it has a significant impact on brewing or if you think it doesn't really affect things. It was fascinating to me to see your ratio of almost 1:2.5 for a light roast, where I usually am closer to 1:1.5 for lighter roast. Thanks again, this is going to be a great series.

Now this is great - as a home barista I have a keen awareness of how different coffees can take alternate routes to dial in. Very interested to see your approach to different coffees. I was dismayed the first time I tried dialing in a light roast like this - it was very counter intuitive after the darker roasts I had been doing but no-one had told me it would be that different, I had to learn through a lot of shots and wasted coffee. So doing this series will help waste less coffee in future, a noble objective in itself. Good work Mr Hoffman!

Really enjoyed this James! Treating myself to a Sage Smart Grinder later this year before I’m moving toward picking up an espresso machine and letting the Aeropress gather a little bit of dust... Look forward to being able to enjoy engaging with these videos more! Thanks!

Awesome video James! Love your content

James you are amazing. Incredible video.

This will be a useful series for me to watch. Great idea.

Name of episode should also contain "Every barista should know this"

Finally! Been waiting for this ever since I subscribed to your channel.

I don't have an espresso machine but I just love watching James talk about coffee

Great series idea! Can't wait!

Hi James, you're doing a great job.

Been waiting for this for ages!!! Just bought your book btw. Amazing stuff.

This is an awesome series! As one who loves espresso but does not work with it, this is such a good educational opportunity!

Fantastic idea. Can't wait to see more.

Love it! Thank you so much! Really looking forward to all other styles you will be showing. I do struggle sometimes with the lighter roasts, however once done properly they can turn out very rewarding :)

Watching from the Philippines! Cant wait for the next videos.

THIS is the video I have been looking for! i am brand new to espresso and now get a good idea of how to “search” for the best tasting shot. Well done.

Fascinating. There's so much I don't know. I just started getting a little more serious about my espresso game because I wasn't satisfied with the taste of my coffee. All this info truly helps.

Cool, can't wait for it to come out

Please do more videos in this series. Love it

Looking forward to future episodes in this series.

Can't wait for more of these tips!

Awesome! Keep ‘em coming. I’m looking into getting a La Marzocco Linea Mini and I need to learn all about dialing in.

Your contents just keep getting better.

What a great idea! for next episodes, I would like to see all the individual charts of modifications and results in one frame. This way, I can better see what adjustments were made at the end! Thank you

Got to work this morning and watched to while dialing in my machine. Great stuff

Looking forward to the second one!

Will love this series!

Espresso series is definately a great idea! 😍

Excellent work. Thank you for sharing.

Awaiting the next one James!

I was struggling to extract a light roast and this video was super useful to me thanks alot james

Definitely looking forward for more roast levels dialing in espresso!!!! Please "keep them coming" thanks!

fantastic, just what i want to see. a series of different coffees, getting to know your thoughtprocess! thanks alot!

This I so needed as a new espresso dialer!

Thanks James! Inciteful as always.

I want more or this kind of stuff. Keep up the good work!

Excellent video. FINALLY something past "grind", "distribute", "tamp", "brew", "...and that's how you make espresso..." I have been looking for something more in depth like this. Please continue. Just subscribed!

This is what I've been waiting for!

Love this series

Thought I'd seen enough dialing in and recipes videos (like barista hustle's). But as always I had no regrets clicking the video in my feed :)

Just the vid i was waiting for!!! Thank you

This is great! I have been pulling some sour shots on a new espresso roast and haven't been able to make it good. I was just going to go back to my old roast and origin, but now I am going to use your recommendations and see if I can make it drinkable. Thank you. MORE OF THIS.

Super helpful! Pretty much my exact setup at work!

Thanks a lot, James! Your videos are very inspiring!)))

this is awesome, James. As a young QC dude dialing in filter and espresso at my coffee company, I've been looking for best practices when working with different coffees and grinders dialing in espresso, and how to get the most out of our single origin espressos.

Yeah bring on the series

appreciated it so much, it’s such an important knowledges to go with ! Thank you sirr 💯

amongst all videos, this one seemed most informative & necessary as home buyers learn to use different coffee beans/grounds - and that one can productively strive to setup and make an ideal tasting espresso from most beans/grounds.. Thanks a much.. hopefully will make me a better home-barrista

This is really good! I’m a relatively new barista at a shop in the Dallas, Texas area and dialing in is not my strong suit. I always have to wait on someone else to really look at it. This helps me at least understand it in theory!

Thanks James for this series, I'm diving more into straight espresso. I'm still developing my palate so I'm still figuring out what good espresso should taste like. Really looking forward to this series.