Melitta Ceramic Filtercone Brew Method

Slowing down the brewing on a 3-hole ceramic filtercone for manual pour-over drip coffee brewing. These drain too fast, so incremental pouring helps. Preheating and washing the paper filter are important too.

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• Sweet Maria's Coffee
• Home Coffee Roasting
• Drip coffee brewing
• pour over

[sweetmarias]

It can vary based on the degree of roast. Usually a heaping tablespoon is 7.5 grams, but light roasts are typically more dense than dark roasts.

[Aaarby]

Interesting. I do the lake method myself and get great results. But I dearly would love to replace my years old plastic cone(s) with a ceramic one. I have never seen one for sale. I've seen cone and carafe setups in some indepents here in Toronto, but that's it. To the extent that I can, I will avoid plastic, if it's plastic that comes into contact with hot water or food.

[sweetmarias]

@Aaarby more ceramic types are coming available. I bet you can find one locally soon...

[TheBeebopper]

Seems like you are using a process very similar to fly-mashing as perfomed in the production of a beer wort. The idea (with beer) is to produce a pressure ramp through the mash so that the malt is least disturbed. First runnings though (before the malt bed settles) are returned to the top as they are not clear. Extrction continues by just keeping the top of the malt covered and it is cut short when the sugar level falls off to a low value and tannin creeps in. The malt's husks are the filter.

[geierstunde]

arg!!! dont use WARM water! it must have 95 grad celsius! its ca. 200 fahrenheit! we make coffee this way for the last hundred years. and then use a pot and a bigger melitta ceramic. in east germany they put a breeze of salt and cinnemon into the powder. deliciuos.

[hillbillytenorino]

Can anybody tell me approx. how many tablespoons is 20-24 grams of ground coffee? I don't want to buy a scale if I can get a reliable answer from someone who knows! Thank you, Sean

[HLA91]

I have tried 300ml and 20g of coffee with my 3 hole but mine takes nearly 4 minutes to drain, why is this? The grind is paper filter grind which is what I asked for when I bought the coffee(I don't own a grinder yet). Should I go for a slightly coarser grind next time?

[klarinetta]

@klarinetta Ok I saw how you did it in a video on your blog but I didn't catch it well(English is not my first language) but what do you call the device you use to measure the extraction and where could you buy one ?

[klarinetta]

@klarinetta One more question. I don't know if this is a dumb question but how do you measure the extraction?

[klarinetta]

Ok if this drain too fast why using them rather than 1 hole cone or even the dummy proof Clever dripper ?

[sweetmarias]

@LFWOL Yes, a good point!