Brewing methods
How to get the best out of every brewer, with the ratio for each.
How to Brew in a Cezve
The oldest brewing method still in daily use, and the only one where the grounds stay in the cup. The foam on…
How to Brew Vietnamese Phin Coffee
A metal cup with a perforated base and a loose lid, sat on top of a glass. No pump, no paper, no electricity.…
How to Brew with a Chemex
The cleanest cup any pour over makes, because the filter is roughly three times the weight of a normal paper.…
How to Brew with a Clever Dripper
Steeps like a press and drains through paper like a pour over, which gets you body and clarity at the same…
How to Brew with a Hario V60
Twenty grams of coffee, 320 grams of water, finished inside three minutes. The V60 gives you more control than…
How to Brew with a Kalita Wave
A flat bed and three small holes instead of one big one, which takes most of the pour technique out of the…
How to Brew with a Siphon
Two glass globes, a burner and a cloth filter. Vapour pressure pushes water upward into the coffee, then the…
How to Brew with an AeroPress
Paper filter and gentle pressure, so you get the clarity of a pour over with more body. Almost any method…
How to Make Better Drip Machine Coffee
The machine is rarely the problem. Six changes, none of which cost anything, will get more out of the one…
How to Make Better Pod Coffee
A capsule machine gives you one button and almost no variables, which is the appeal. There are still four or…
How to Make Cowboy Coffee
No filter, no plunger, no equipment beyond a pot. Grounds go in the water and then you persuade them to sink.…
How to Make French Press Coffee
Full immersion and a metal filter, so the oils and some of the fines stay in the cup. That is where the body…
How to Make South Indian Filter Coffee
A two-chamber steel filter makes a decoction thick as treacle, which then meets scalding milk. The pour between…
How to Pull an Espresso Shot
Eighteen grams in, thirty-six grams out, somewhere around twenty-eight seconds. Everything else in espresso is…
How to Use a Moka Pot
Nearly every bitter moka pot is bitter for the same two reasons: cold water in the boiler and too much heat…
How to Use a Neapolitan Flip Pot
Naples brewed coffee this way for a century before the moka pot arrived. No pressure at all: you heat water in…
How to Use a Stovetop Percolator
A percolator boils coffee and then pours it back over the grounds, over and over. Done carelessly that is a…
The Inverted AeroPress Method
Stand the AeroPress on its plunger and nothing drains until you decide. It costs you one slightly nervous flip…