BREW GUIDES

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Great coffee doesn’t just happen. The perfect cup takes precision, intentionality, and the right equipment. We want to help you have the best cup possible. Our brew guides will help you do just that.

basic equipment

  • Grinding your coffee before each brew is essential to maximizing your home experience.

    Once coffee is ground, you begin to lose some of the key elements of taste and flavor. By completing this step right before you brew, you preserve the flavor profile of the beans.

  • A scale will help you begin to learn how much coffee to use. You can begin to see how using more or less coffee will lead to different results. This is your brew ratio. Knowing this will guide your taste preferences, helping you know how to best brew coffee for your personal taste, whenever you want.

  • Brewing coffee is a chemical reaction. A gooseneck kettle paired with a proper filter and carafe, helps you direct the flow of water while brewing which aids in consistency and brings out the full flavor of the coffee. This is commonly referred to as a pour over.

These are your three products that will make your at home coffee stand out. By investing in these, you are ensuring that your morning cup or afternoon pick me up, are of the highest quality.

BREW METHODS

Different ways of brewing yield different results. Whether it’s the strength, consistency, or method, each one of these brings something unique to your cup of coffee.

The standard. the v60 is a continuous pour over brewer enginereed to make a quicker cup. It owes much of its success to the paper filter that helps to produce a very clean and flavorful cup of coffee. The vertical “S” grooves inside the brewer leading down to a hole about a half inch in diameter. This is a great tool to redefine your home brewing experience, challenge your skills and produce a great cup of coffee.

V60

KALITA WAVE

Japanese engineering at its best with the Kalita Wave. This small method produces a delicious cup of coffee containing equal parts flavor and body. This is attributed to the flat bottom design and the number of holes in the bottom of the brewer to control and direct flow rate.

This is an example of a pulse-pour recipe, with measured pours happening at specific times during the brew.

FRENCH PRESS

Classic & widely used brew methods for a reason. This is a full immersion brewer where the water and coffee come directly into contact and steep for a longer period of time. Using a mesh, metal filter, the end product usually has a heavy body due to the sediment that passes through the filter when it is plunged to end the brew. If you prefer a full bodied coffee, the French Press is one you need.
This recipe mimics the taste of a cupping, also another full immersion brew method that is used by our roasters to sample current coffee offerings.

The Aeropress was designed in 1984 and is known as a hybrid brew method, combining both full immersion and percolation. This tool can make anything from something closely resembling a shot of espresso, to a delicious full cup of coffee! This recipe will be utilizing the inverted method of brewing.

AEROPRESS