BASIC PRINCIPLES
THE TYPE OF COFFEE USED MAKES A BIG IMPACT ON BREW TIMES
Dense, washed coffees will take longer to drain than more fermented soluble coffees. Each coffee is different and thus you will get slightly (or sometimes vastly) different brewing times from coffee to coffee. This is okay! Use your taste to judge what type of cup you enjoy most.
IDEAL RANGE
USABLE: 10 grams to 22 grams
BEST RANGE: 12 grams to 18 grams
POURING SPEED (FLOW RATE)
We pour with our standard 5 G/S or 50G in 10 seconds.
GRIND SIZE
We display grind size advice in Comandante C40 Clicks (as it is our preferred hand grinder) but we also refer to grind size ranges like FINE, MEDIUM-FINE, MEDIUM, MEDIUM-COARSE, COARSE. We recommend you take our base recipe (Easy does it) and dial your grinder in based on our time guides and on your taste. Every grinder will produce a different profile and will interact differently with the paper filter.
ROAST LEVEL
Our recipes are designed around light (or even often very light) roast levels. If you are brewing more developed medium or dark roasts, please note that you should adjust parameters. In general the darker you go, we would recommend to decrease grind size gradually and lower water temperature - adjust to taste. We have not tested with dark roasts too much as of yet, and may prepare a guide section specifically for this later on. Just keep in mind that we designed and tested this device more around light roast coffee.
THERE IS NO NEED TO PRE-HEAT THE DEVICE
All of our recipes start with a room temp device and this is fine. Please note that if you pre-heat the device, you may end up with a different cup profile than what we do when we create the recipe.
EXPLORE BEYOND
Our recipes below are a starting point. Please explore our V4 Recipes, as most of them translate well to the V3 - you may just have to grind a bit coarser. Adapt recipes from your favourite YouTubers, Brewing Champions, or local baristas - have fun and
share your findings with us!