The strength of your daily coffee is truly a ! Why is it every time you walk into a different coffee shop or make coffee at home (after having the coffee ground at a shop or grocery store) it tastes different? The truth of the matter is many fold. You may buy a different roast of coffee each time, which will make the taste (often equated with strength) be completely different. Secondly, the grind used at the shop or store may appear to be auto drip, but the grinders used can be calibrated incorrectly (giving you the WRONG grind). Thirdly, when you buy a cup at your favorite shop(s), each place will brew the coffee differently (use a shop specific grind and a different amount of coffee per brew cycle). Consider it this way...a greasy-spoon diner will use inexpensive, mass-market coffee like Farmers Brothers and use just enough coffee per brew cycle to give you a see-through cup of brown water...conversely, a quality independent shop will use excellent Arabica beans and brew a pot with far more coffee in the brew cycle. The great other determining factor has to be blooming the coffee. A bloom will wet the grounds (whatever grind you prefer for home use) and extract more flavor and oils thus creating a stronger cup once the entre brew cycle (whether on your home auto-drip machine, French Press, or pour over-think camp coffee with the white filter, grounds and water being poured over the beans.
In the end, to get a STRONG cup of coffee, grind good quality coffee finer (imagine water flowing over large stones will pass through faster as compared to water flowing through sand, which will certainly go through slower) thus coffee gets more flavor and strength; consider blooming the ground coffee first, and undoubtedly use MORE coffee.
In the end, to get a STRONG cup of coffee, grind good quality coffee finer (imagine water flowing over large stones will pass through faster as compared to water flowing through sand, which will certainly go through slower) thus coffee gets more flavor and strength; consider blooming the ground coffee first, and undoubtedly use MORE coffee.