I feel it is about time I broached this subject. With an eye to the last posts, as well as to the response to my Chemex videocast, I feel the need to make something very clear.
The internet is full of information, though it is also full of keyboard heroes, and has something of an issue [...]
This will probably end up being quite a long post, and sorry for being a bit cryptic on here the other day. I want to explain the history of this little project, and give credit where it is due.
This morning I got up early to fly over to Dublin, to the CatEx show there. Apart [...]
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Just a quick link to the third Square Mile videocast:
Videocast #3 – Chemex/Pourover from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
For more information there are some notes on the Square Mile blog.
Comments and discussion always welcome.
Everyone tells you how hard it is to start your own business, and you only really get what they mean once you are neck deep in it all. But this isn’t a complaining post – quite the opposite.
Gradually, over the last few weeks and months, I have realised that I am really, truly learning [...]
So thanks to the lovely people at Bunn I have a couple of TDS meters and have begun to poke them into various coffee drinks.
The first thing that upset me was just how hard London’s water is. Out of the tap I get 410ppm, which is pretty hard. This means it is not [...]
After the Midlands UKBC heat Anette and I drove over to Steve Leighton’s to spend the afternoon at Hasbean. After chatting about brewing kit for a little while Steve very kindly gave me a Bodum Kona to play with.
Now I love my Chemex – it is my comfort brewer at the moment, though the [...]
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I remember reading early in my coffee days that someone had done an experiment where they had compared heat loss in porcelain espresso cups of different thicknesses and found that the heat retention of the porcelain didn’t much matter because all the heat went out of the top anyway. Like a lot of what [...]
These days I drink relatively little espresso (compared to my total coffee intake). Most of the time it is the Chemex or the press.
I am pretty much a 60g/l kind of person when it comes to brewing and, after I was rightly schooled by Kyle Glanville whilst in LA, my grind for the Chemex is pretty coarse. However I just can’t let go of the obsessive chasing of detail. The moment’s where things just come together by mistake are few and far between for me, so I obsess. I tend to use a larger Chemex so when I only want a large cup it bothered me that I didn’t know visually exactly how much water to add, or when I had added enough without guesswork. And guesswork just won’t do.
After giving in to the curiousity caused mostly by Tonx’s postings on it, I bought a Chemex. Before it arrived it turned out Anette had bought me a bigger, better version. Which was a pleasant surprise.
It has become my standard way of making coffee at home if I am relaxing or working. [...]
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