Filter Coffee

Coffee brewed by hot water passing through ground coffee in a paper or metal filter. Clean, balanced, the everyday backbone of specialty coffee.

Method

Filter

Typical volume

240 ml

Caffeine

95 mg

A reference figure for the drink, not a measurement of your cup.

Filter Coffee technique

Weigh 60g of coffee per litre - 30g for a 500ml brew - at a medium grind.
Rinse the paper filter with hot water and discard the rinse.
Fill the reservoir with filtered water and run the machine; a good one holds 92-96°C at the bed.
Level the bed with a spoon if the grounds have climbed the sides during the brew.
Decant into a preheated carafe if it will stand more than 20 minutes - a hotplate stews coffee.

Machine drip lives or dies on dose and water quality. If the cup reads thin, grind finer before you add more coffee.