Has anyone ever had a coffee that works a lot better for espresso than a pour over/filter brew?

I’ve got a washed coffee from Honduras (medium / medium light roast) and brewing it in a flat bottom brewer hasn’t made coffee like any of the descriptors on the bag - super sweet and candy floss.

I’ve only made one espresso from it and I get a very pleasing acidity from it. I noticed 14g in the basket didn’t fill it out much.

    I’m not sure what relevance a flat bottomed brewer has on the matter, but if you are finding the coffee too bland/weak as brewed and better with the higher concentration of espresso, that seems logical.

    You could try brewing it at a higher ratio (less water to more coffee), or slower pour rate as drip, or even stronger as immersion?

    It really depends on whether intensity of flavour is the issue, or whether getting the right flavour is the issue. What I mean is, most frequently coffees that don’t excite me as drip, are usually over browned so the brighter, fruitier flavours are diminished, even at appropriate strength (a roast malfunction). As opposed to there is little flavour intensity from the coffee at all (a brew malfunction).

    Many of the coffees that miss the mark as drip for me will taste better as espresso, or as a strong immersion brew.

    Some insight into how you are brewing with flat bottomed brewer (brew size, ratio, grind size and pour rate) might help if it is a low extraction/brew malfunction.

    Be aware that Honduras (along with Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala) tend towards lower solubility/extraction, all else being equal.

    Lowering the ratio to 1/15 from 1/17 and coarsening the grind size has helped sweeten it up

    whinmoor85 I recognize those descriptors, is this Hasbean, Honduras La Alondra we are talking about, currently working my way through a bag of it at the moment

    Had a really nice Clever brew out of it the other day in work using the hoffman clever drip recipe, strugling a bit at home now using Orea V3 but that would be me still trying to get used to using the Orea, this last one was overly sweet could not tast anything but sweetnes, think I will try a coarser grind next time, afraid I have not tried it as Espresso but I only have espresso as flat white dont think its suitable for that

        ken0062 strugling a bit at home now using Orea V3 but that would be me still trying to get used to using the Orea, this last one was overly sweet could not tast anything but sweetnes,

        OMG! This sounds awful…erm, could you tell us how you made this terrible faux pas? (Asking for a friend.) 😃