Tag Archives: french press

Brew temperature

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 27, 2009

This, shockingly enough, isn’t about espresso. It is about brewed coffee, and the fact that brew temperature is completely wrecking my head. We talk a lot about brew temperature but what we are really talking about is water delivery temperature.
I love my Uber boiler, I love the control and the delivery temp stability. With this, [...]

Posted in Opinion, coffee brewing | Also tagged brew temperature, filter brewing, scace, uber | 22 Comments

The Marco Über Boiler

By James Hoffmann | Published: February 11, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in News, coffee brewing | Also tagged awesome, brewers, brewing, Cafes, chemex, clover, Coffee, innovatio, promises, roastery, syphon, technology, vacpot | 52 Comments

Final Quick Post on the whole French Press thing

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 22, 2008

For people who have e-mailed and asked about the press pots in the video I can only advise you to visit amazon where they are way, waaay cheaper than anywhere I can find them (including Bodum’s wholesale department……)
Bodum Columbia 0.35l Tea and Coffee Press – Stainless Steel
Easily the nicest one cup press pots out there, [...]

Posted in Coffee, coffee brewing | Also tagged brewing, cafetiere, how to, howto, Video, videocast | 3 Comments

More on the French Press Technique

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 15, 2008

After the last post there was a bit of discussion about this method.
One big question was: “Why break and then skim? Why not just skim?”
This seemed like a pretty good question to me, so today I decided to do a few quick tests.
I took two identical presses, the same dose of coffee, the same brew [...]

Posted in Coffee, coffee brewing | Also tagged coffeegeek, experiments, how to, tds, technique, Video, videocast | 16 Comments

French Press Technique

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 13, 2008

Videocast #2 – French Press Technique from James Hoffmann on Vimeo.
I know I cross posted this on the Square Mile Blog, but I thought I should post it here too. Feedback is always welcome, and yes – I am still totally obsessed with brewing on scales!
Comments are open again!

Posted in Coffee, Opinion | Also tagged brewing, cafetiere, coffee brewing, howto, Opinion, square mile coffee roasters, Video, videocast | 28 Comments

Is jimseven.com dead?

By James Hoffmann | Published: October 14, 2008

I love a dramatic title…. However, the question remains valid! I have barely posted in the last three months, and I can’t just place the blame on Square Mile commitments. In truth lots of little things have contributed – no more internet at home, a broken macbook that I keep forgetting to [...]

Posted in Opinion | Also tagged blog, brewing, Coffee, Espresso, freshness, jimseven, Opinion, square mile, synesso | 14 Comments

My increasing reliance on scales

By James Hoffmann | Published: November 4, 2007

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.

Posted in Coffee, Featured, Opinion | Also tagged brew ratios, chemex, Coffee | 32 Comments