The Brew Room: Guide to Gear & Techniques
Coffee Grinders: Blade vs. Burr vs. Hand
Grinding coffee is about achieving the ideal particle size based on the extraction method, and different grinders create different sizes. For example, because it's extracted quickly under high pressure, espresso requires a fine particle size. On t...
New Gear: BruTrek Camp Hand Coffee Grinder
Coffee is all about repeatability, and there's nothing more repeatable than cold, hard numbers. If you nail your extraction and your cup is perfect, you're going to want to replicate that. Unless winging it is your thing, putting yourself at the m...
Arctic Cold Brew Coffee System
Why Brew With The Arctic? Cold brew can be hot. Not temperature-wise, but, like, it can look really good. Case in point, the Arctic by Icosa Brewhouse, a bombshell of borosilicate and stainless-steel that makes bodacious cold brew. Whether you max...
Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper
Why Brew With The Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper Imagine: You just finished grinding coffee for a pour over, only to discover you're out of paper filters. Unfortunately, copy paper isn't going to cut it. This filter-dripper combo m...
Technivorm Moccamaster
Why Brew With The Technivorm Moccamaster Invented by Dutch engineer Gerard-Clement Smit in the late 1960s, Technivorm's Moccamaster revolutionized home coffee brewing. Though not quite as glamorous as it is today, the original Moccamaster design a...
Inverted AeroPress
Why Brew Inverted With The Aeropress? Few manual coffee brewers can hold a candle to the AeroPress. It's portable, packable, uncrackable, and makes impeccable coffee. Alan Adler invented the AeroPress in 2005 in pursuit of fast, delicious coffee—s...