Our Brew Guides
Cafetière
Cafetière is a really simple way to make a cup of coffee at home giving you excellent results with very little equipment.
What you need:
- Cafetière
- Fresh Coffee
- Grinder (optional)
- Water
- Kettle
- Scales (optional)
Method:
- Heat your water to 90 degrees or boil a kettle and leave it sit for 30 seconds
- Pre heat your cafetiere and mug
- Grind your coffee to a coarse grind
- Weigh out your coffee and use 60 grams of coffee per litre of water as a starting reference. Alternatively 1 tbsp = approx 12 grams of ground coffee
- Pour your water into the coffee
- Stir for 10 seconds
- Leave to brew for 4 minutes
- Before plunging, use 2 spoons and remove the coffee crust from the top and discard
- Plunge, pour and enjoy!
Hario V60
The Hario V60 is a fantastic brewer for people who want to control all of the brewing parameters and make an extremely high quality brew from their own home. The key here is time with best results brewing close to 3 minutes.
What you will need:
- Hario V60 brewer
- Hario V60 Filter
- Grinder
- Fresh Coffee
- Water
- Goose neck kettle
- Scales
- Timer
Method:
- Place the filter into the v60
- Preheat the carafe and filter with hot water
- Weigh out your coffee. Start with a 1:15 ratio or for a one cup brewer 16 grams
- Grind your coffee to a medium to coarse setting
- Heat your water to around 90 degrees Celsius
- Pour 30 grams of hot water over your coffee completely saturating the grounds and leave it bloom for 30 seconds
- Pour another 220ml of water slowly over your grounds in a circular motion being careful not pour down the edges of the coffee.
- You should aim for your coffee to finish brewing in 3 minutes
Aeropress
The Aeropress is one of the most versatile coffee makers you can get. Playing around with different grind settings, contact time, coffee dose and water quantities will result in very different brews. Play around with the variables to find your taste.
What you will need:
- Aeropress
- Filter
- Fresh Coffee
- Grinder
- Fresh Water
- Goose neck kettle
- carafe
- Stirrer
- Scales
Method:
- A good starting point is a ratio of 1:15 . We like to use 16 grams of freshly ground coffee at a medium to fine setting. (adjust to taste)
- Heat your kettle to 80-90 degrees Celsius.
- Pour hot water on your filter and into your Aeropress and carafe to preheat and wet the filter.
- (optional) Pour 40ml of water onto your coffee in your Aeropress and leave to bloom for 10-15 seconds.
- Pour another 200ml of water over your coffee for 20 seconds.
- Stir 3 times.
- Plunge for 30 seconds.
- Stop just before you reach the last bit of water.
- Clean your Aeropress immediately as it is easier to clean at this point
Our brands
We are so proud of our brand partners from Marley Coffee who push the boundaries of ethical and sustainability to Crem International and the famous La Marzocco who manufacture the finest in class specialty coffee equipment.
