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french press

MATERIALS

✓ French Press
✓ Spoon or Stirrer
✓ Kettle
✓ Scale
✓ Timer

COFFEE SPECS

Coffee to Water Ratio

1:10

Coffee

30 grams

Water

300 ml (195ºF - 200ºF)

Grind

Coarse

Brew Time

4 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

1

Prepare Your french press

Pre-heat your French press with the hot water. Discard.

2

add the coffee

Place your French press on a scale, add coffee and tare.

3

add the water

Start your timer. Slowly pour 100 ml of water onto the coffee grounds.

4

Stir the grinds

Gently stir to evenly saturate the coffee grounds. Allow to bloom for 30 seconds.

5

COMPLETE THE POUR

Pour 200 ml of water onto the grounds and place the lid on the press. Let your coffee steep until your timer reaches 4 minutes.

6

press

At 4 minutes, slowly press the filter down and immediately decant your coffee.

Tip:

Allowing your coffee to sit in the press will extend your brew time, resulting in bitter tasting coffee.

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