Chemex

A pour-over style brewer, the Chemex uses thick filters that can bring out different and complex flavors a traditional pour over may not. They are also great for making coffee for more than one!

Below is our Chemex recipe, with some exceptions I’ll note below. This recipe makes 2 cups.

1. Wet the filter and drain water.

2. Weigh 34 grams coffee and grind to about a 5 (out of 11 on our grinder) so something medium-ish.

3. Add coffee and tare.

4. First pour in double the amount of water as you had coffee for the bloom. That would be 68-ish grams of water.

5. Let bloom. I usually wait until i see bubbles coming up through and breaking. Should be about 45 seconds.

6. Keep pouring in circular motions, moving in/out from the center. Each pour can be anywhere from 100-150 grams. I usually wait until I start to see a crater form in the center before I make another pour. 

7. Pour until you hit 550 grams of water!

**The biggest hurdle we come across when brewing Chemex is altering grind size appropriately. I increase the grind size one tick on our grinder if I’m brewing a light roast coffee that has chaff in the creases, or if you want to increase the overall amount of coffee you’re brewing**