It’s been almost six months since I decided to stop buying more coffee equipment, and so far, I’ve been successful in resisting temptation. But I’ve been curious about how different my morning coffee would taste if I used immersion brewing, instead of my usual V60 percolation. To figure it out properly, I would have to buy either a Clever Dripper, AeroPress or French press. Or… I could hack something up, using stuff I already had in the kitchen.
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Coffee is Colombia’s second most addictive crop
The Wife and I are addicted to 1,3,7-Trimethylxanthine, and we have been for many decades now. If the name is unfamiliar, perhaps you might recognise it by its chemical formula C8H10N4O2. There’s a good chance that you’re addicted to it too, or know someone who is.
Continue readingPutting the flexibility of Tetsu 4-6 to the test
One of the reasons that led me to choose the Tetsu 4-6 recipe when brewing our daily morning V60 was the supposed flexibility of the technique. The best way to find out if this was indeed the case was to try the different combinations myself. Here’s what I found out.
Continue readingI finally made it back to Nylon Coffee after eight long years
Let me just say upfront that, sometimes, I’m a terrible customer. I was looking back at some old photos and realised that the last time I visited Nylon Coffee Roasters was eight years ago, all the way back in the September of 2013.
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