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CHEMEX

Inspired by the Bauhaus school of design, Chemex inventor and chemist Peter Schlumbohm created a coffee dripper intended to brew the perfect cup of coffee at home simply, and with beautiful style. The triple-bonded paper filter is the thickest of any pour over filter, leaving the most coffee oils and sediment in the brew bed rather than in your cup, and thus yielding an extremely light, tea-like body and extreme flavor clarity.

MATERIALS

✓ Chemex
✓ Filter
✓ Kettle
✓ Mug or server
✓ Scale
✓ Timer

COFFEE SPECS

Coffee to Water Ratio

1:11

Grind

Medium-coarse

Coffee

30 grams

Water

330 ml (195ºF - 205ºF)

Brew Time

3:30 - 4:00 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

1

SET UP

Line the dripper with a paper filter, then rinse the filter with hot water and discard.

2

add the coffee

Add coffee, then tare your scale and start your timer.

3

Begin the pour

Follow the pouring guide chart below.

Tip:

For the best results, use a gentle spiral pour, starting in the center of the coffee bed and spiraling out and back toward the middle.

Pouring Guide

Pour in 50 - 60 gram increments
By:	Scale should read:
30 seconds	60 grams
1:00	100 - 130 grams
2:00	200 grams
3:00	300 grams
3:30	330 grams
All water through by 4 minutes

GENERAL TIPS FOR BETTER TASTING COFFEE

Coffee is 98% water, and the quality of the water you use to brew your coffee directly affects the taste in your cup. Running your tap water through a filter like Brita or Pur will affect the taste of your coffee for the better, yielding more clarity and sweetness.

If you are using pre-ground coffee, use less coffee to decrease brew time and use more coffee to increase brew time.

Coffee beans have different densities and sizes, so scooping to measure your coffee recipe becomes less and less reliable. Instead, weigh your coffee on a gram scale to make sure you have the right recipe.

Coffee tastes best when ground right before you brew, and burr grinders give you a much more even grind size. When the grind size is very different, you get a mixed extraction - the water pulls out less from the biggest pieces (giving you the sour flavor of underextraction), and too much from the smaller pieces (the bitter flavor of overextraction)

You may need to adjust the grind size to manipulate the brew time. A coarser grind size will decrease the brew time and a finer grind size will increase the brew timeYou may need to adjust the grind size to manipulate the brew time. A coarser grind size will decrease the brew time and a finer grind size will increase the brew time