The simple 121 method from Lance Hedrick
"1pour, 2 minute bloom, 1 pour. It’s an easy, repeatable, and delicious recipe fo v60."
Lance Hedrick
Tips & Preparation
- Recipe focuses on vibrancy and cleanliness.
- Suitable for all grinders, even those producing many fines.
- Uses a two-minute bloom for full saturation and higher extraction.
- Employs a specific pouring technique to trap fines against the filter.
- Advocates for using the entire filter surface to maximize fine removal.
- Grind size: medium to medium-fine.
- Water temperature: boiling.
- Coffee: Lightly roasted Kenya coffee from George Howell.
- Filters: Cafe Wonderful medium roast filters are preferred.
- Variation: The recipe is scalable to different doses.
Recipe Steps
Place filter in brewer and rinse with hot water to adhere it to the ridges. Grind 18g of coffee to a medium-fine consistency and create a loose divot in the center of the coffee bed.
0:00
Pour 54g of boiling water:
from a height, breaking the stream above the coffee bed, to saturate the grounds. Swirl aggressively to ensure no clumps remain.
2:00
Pour the remaining water (252g) :
heavily from a high position until just below where the coffee grounds hit the filter. Then, slow down and pour in small circles up to 306g.
2:50
Gently stir the very top layer of the slurry with a stick to push fines to the sides of the filter and prevent boulders. Swirl gently to flatten the bed.
3:50
Allow the coffee to drain completely. Total brew time is about 3: 50.
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