5 espresso profiles for light roasted coffee beans
If you've ever wondered how to use profiling to make the best espresso from light roasted beans, this video will explain that.
We try the same light roasted bean, making coffee with five different profiles. How to dial each profile in, and how each profile tastes when it's not dialed in right.
We explain to you the flavor that comes out of each profile.
This is the order in which we make each espresso, in increasing amount of coffee extraction. We put Allongé at the end as it's mid-way between an espresso and filter coffee and thus in a different category from the other profiles.
- Gentle & Sweet: best for beginners (5:45)
- Extractamundo Dos: best for beans with slight off flavors you want to hide (9:00)
- Adaptive v2: best espresso when well-dialed in (13:00)
- Blooming: most difficult to dial in, but biggest extraction. Best if you have a good quantity of flawless beans. (24:15)
- Allongé: best for ultralight roasts, fruity, or natural beans, and easiest to dial in (34:28)
We use 18g doses in an 18g Decent basket. The bean is Chelchele from L'Alchimiste in Bordeaux, and we use a 98mm flat burr “FM Grinder” at its lowest RPM setting (500).
We also have a video about 5 profiles for dark roasted beans.
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Updated 2025/04/22