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Coffee

Brewing Coffee the Right Way

How to Brew a Good Cup of Coffee from Ben Helfen on Vimeo.

Brilliant.

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Coffee

Roast: Brazil / Ethiopia Decaf Espresso

A blend of Brazil Cerrado WP Decaf and Ethiopia DP Sidamo WP Decaf. 110g of the Brazil and 90g of the Ethiopia, pre-blended.

Time Temp Heater Fan Notes
00:00 260 10 0
00:30 190 10 0
01:00 182 10 0
01:30 195 10 0
02:00 214 10 0
02:30 233 10 0
03:00 250 10 0
03:30 267 10 0
04:00 283 10 0
04:30 297 10 0
05:00 310 10 0
05:30 323 10 0
06:00 335 10 0
06:30 346 10 0
07:00 357 5 0
07:30 368 5 0
08:00 376 5 0 375 FC pop
08:30 382 5 0 this was just early
09:00 388 5 0
09:30 392 5 0 slow FC
10:00 396 5 0
10:30 400 5 0
11:00 404 5 0
11:30 408 5 0
12:00 413 5 0
12:30 418 5 0
13:00 423 5 0
13:30 429 5 0 426 sc?
14:00 434 5 0 431 starting to roll, dropped at 434
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Coffee Food

Clever Coffee Dripper

Sweet Maria's Clever Coffee Dripper

Just saw this new brewer over at Sweet Maria’s. Looks like a great alternative to the Aeropress or a French Press. Less mess and nice and consistent. Reminds me a lot of the ingenuiTEA from Adagio.

ingenuiTEA_teapot

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Coffee

Triple Ristretto

triple

After visiting Gimme! a while ago and having one of their tasty triple ristrettos, I decided to pick up a triple basket and see if I could pull it off in my Rancilio Silvia at home. The basket arrived on Tuesday, so today was the first go round.

So far, it works great. I’m using ~ 17g of coffee and getting 1.5oz in about 30s. Very tasty and and nice controlled pour. I’m a convert.

If you’re interested in triples, there’s a good page over on Home Barista about it too.

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Coffee

Brewing with a VacPot

In my never-ending quest to try out every coffee-brewing method known to man, I decided to get a vacuum pot. These were wildly popular earlier in the last century, but fell out of favor. Why, I don’t know, because it makes a wonderful cup of coffee.

This is a 5-cup Yama, with a Cona glass rod instead of the standard cloth filter.