Brewing Funkey & Emerging Origin Beans
"Brew Thai coffee by focusing on temperature, agitation, and understanding processing to showcase unique regional characteristics and minimize undesirable flavors."
Brian Quan
Tips & Preparation
Recipe for brewing newer regions of coffee like Thai coffee:
- Background:
- Focus on brewing techniques for newer coffee regions with anaerobic natural processing.
- Lower temperature, lower agitation.
- The goal is to balance the unique characteristics of the region with the processing.
- Preparations:
- Use fast-flowing paper filters.
- Heat water to 90°C.
- Notes:
- Lower temperature compensates for agitation.
- Let the coffee cool down to taste the full profile.
- High clarity grinder is used intentionally to see if lower temperature can make the coffee taste good.
- Variations/Adjustments:
- Contact times are dependent on how fast you pour and how you agitate the coffee.
Recipe Steps
0:00
Pour 60ml of water quickly to bloom and wet WDT, wait for 1 min.
1:00
Mellow drip at about 5 ml/s in circular patterns close to the bed up to 170ml.
1:40
Continue to add more water when the water almost flows all the way through, pouring about 5 to 8 mls a second, up to 240ml.
2:30
Drain down around 2:30
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