Baratza Virtuoso+ aeropress grind setting: the verified range

Baratza Virtuoso+ aeropress grind setting: the verified range

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Set a Baratza Virtuoso+ between 5 and 30 for aeropress, per Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Baratza Virtuoso+ chart. Start in the middle of the window and adjust on taste: finer if the cup tastes thin, sour or watery, coarser if the plunge is hard work and the cup tastes bitter or muddy.

Baratza Virtuoso+ aeropress settings, and the bands either side

What Setting on the Baratza Virtuoso+
AeroPress window 5 to 30 [1]
The moka pot band on the same chart 7 to 18 [1]
The pour over band on the same chart 9 to 29 [1]
Full grind range of the grinder 200 to 1200 microns [1]

The neighbouring bands are there for context. If your aeropress sits at one end of its window and still tastes wrong, the answer is usually a different variable, not another step in the same direction, because past that edge you are grinding for a different brew method.

Why aeropress wants this part of the dial

The AeroPress band on any chart is wide because grind is only half the recipe: steep time is the other half. A fine grind with a short steep and a medium grind with a long steep land in a similar place, which is why the published window covers so much of the dial.

Dial it in from the chart in 3 steps

1. Set the middle of the aeropress window above and brew once, changing nothing else. 2. Taste against the two failure directions: finer if the cup tastes thin, sour or watery, coarser if the plunge is hard work and the cup tastes bitter or muddy. The full logic is in the AeroPress ratio and the inverted method. For the rest of the recipe, see the AeroPress buying guide. 3. Move in small steps and write each attempt down; the free dial-in logbook exists for exactly this. Pick a steep time first and hold it while you move the grind. Two variables at once and the wide window becomes a maze.

How the Baratza Virtuoso+ adjustment reads

The Baratza Virtuoso+ uses a stepped collar with 40 numbered settings. Find your zero before trusting any chart: with the hopper empty, close the burrs until they just touch, call that zero, and count from there. A zero point calibrated differently from the chart's shifts every range by the difference, which is behind most complaints that a chart is wrong. The full Baratza Virtuoso+ grind settings chart has every other brew method on one page.

AeroPress on other popular grinders

Grinder AeroPress setting
Turin DF64 Gen 2 15 to 80 [2]
1Zpresso J-Max 1.3.2 to 4.0.3 [3]
KINGrinder K6 0.38 to 1.53 [4]
Fellow Opus 2 to 8.75 [5]
1Zpresso X-Pro 1.0.2 to 3.0.5 [6]

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Related reading

FAQ

What grind setting is aeropress on the Baratza Virtuoso+? 5 to 30 on the compiled Baratza Virtuoso+ chart. Start in the middle of that window, brew once with everything else held steady, then move in small steps on taste.

My aeropress tastes wrong on the Baratza Virtuoso+. Which way do I move? If the cup tastes thin, sour or watery, go finer. If the plunge is hard work and the cup tastes bitter or muddy, go coarser. Change one thing at a time and write down what you did.

Where do these Baratza Virtuoso+ numbers come from? Honest Coffee Guide's compiled Baratza Virtuoso+ chart, read from the published table and cited in the sources list on this page. It is a compiled chart built from that site's research and reader feedback, not a manufacturer document, so treat every range as a window rather than a verdict.

Sources

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