• How to make Pour over coffee.

    Author: Sanjoy Gupta | | Categories: Brewing coffee , How to make coffee , Pour over coffee

    I'm going to go to town on this method of coffee brewing because it represents the true art of manual coffee making. Pour over coffee is apparently the simplest way to make coffee - place coffee in a filter paper cone, pour hot water through the coffee and into a cup below and your coffee is ready. True but god is in the details and the coffee god insists on the combination of ritual and process. So read on. Equipment: You will need a pour over kettle. Hario is a Japanese company that makes the most famous pour over kettle. It…

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  • Is there a "best" way to make coffee?

    Author: Sanjoy Gupta | | Categories: Brewing coffee , How to make coffee , Moka pot coffee , Pour over coffee

    Recently I had a debate with a coffee planter friend of mine who is a recent convert to coffee drinking. I should throw in a plug for Estate Craft because he started drinking coffee after trying out one of our single estate coffees. So the debate was about coffee making methods and which was better between the moka pot from Bialetti and the pour over. Like many coffee drinkers he likes his coffee strong and hot and his assumption was that moka pot coffee would be hotter and stronger than pour over because it is brewed on a life fire…

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