Chemex

This is the first time on this thread.  I just purchased a 10 cup glass handle Chemex and a Brewista kettle.  Anybody else out there own one?  Any suggestions or things I should know?

Popular pour over coffee setup. I don’t personally have one but I do use pour over. There are plenty of vids on Y-tube to show you the “cool” ways of making a cup! Best of luck.



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Very cool.. Melitta user here. Have issues with glass, butter and fingers. Prefer to go cheap. Bloom (wet) the grind first. Rids the coffee of any residual CO2. SWMBO tastes way better than mine. She pours over in increments. I drown it. You got this!

Rinse the filter in place with warm/hot water. Not sure if it helps the filter but it's very good to warm up the glass....
Cheers

Tidepool Can I ask, how many cups of coffee do you think you will generally make when you use it? I used a good handful of times for 1-2 cups of single origin pour over coffees. The average weight was usually around 25grams of beans to 300-400g of water. Do you have a kitchen scale you can use while making coffee?

I like my coffee HOT so if I'm making 3 or 4 cups , I place my Chemex in a pot and add about an inch of water and bring it to just under a boil.

THEN I grind my beans and use a metal kettle that I brought water to almost a boil and do an intermittent pour over, with first pour a blooming one and let it sit Bout 30 seconds.

Then I'll pour some in ( all around, not just center) the grounds

All this is happening with the Chemex in the pot of almost boiling water.

That way I and others can have HOT coffee without rushing to finish the pot before it gets cold.

( by the way, I never believed in WEIGHING persactly the beans!)
I'm a Louisiana CAJUN! We don't measure nothin'
It just comes "with the heritage!"

Tidepool Can I ask, how many cups of coffee do you think you will generally make when you use it? I used a good handful of times for 1-2 cups of single origin pour over coffees. The average weight was usually around 25grams of beans to 300-400g of water. Do you have a kitchen scale you can use while making coffee?

Good question.  I have only made one pot of coffee because my $150  Brewista Smart Pour kettle died 4 day after I received it.  I am now going stove top with a [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hario Buono Drip Kettle.  However, the one pot I made I used 32 grams of coffee and 480 grams of water and [/font]it made 4 good size cups of coffee.  I was very pleased.  Once I receive my new kettle I will try a 50 gram coffee and 750 gram water formula and see what turns out.  Yes I have an electronic kitchen scale that I have had for years.  I have been cooking for a long time.

I like my coffee HOT so if I'm making 3 or 4 cups , I place my Chemex in a pot and add about an inch of water and bring it to just under a boil.

THEN I grind my beans and use a metal kettle that I brought water to almost a boil and do an intermittent pour over, with first pour a blooming one and let it sit Bout 30 seconds.

Then I'll pour some in ( all around, not just center) the grounds

All this is happening with the Chemex in the pot of almost boiling water.

That way I and others can have HOT coffee without rushing to finish the pot before it gets cold.

( by the way, I never believed in WEIGHING persactly the beans!)
I'm a Louisiana CAJUN! We don't measure nothin'
It just comes "with the heritage!"

not a value judgment, just a remark on how wonderful it is that coffee is so expressive.

Im almost the complete opposite; I view by-weight measurement as *the* fundamental technique in coffee (or baking) and I find that coffee is best enjoyed after having cooled down a bit or you end up masking a lot of nice natural sweetness of it.

I will say preheating your brew vessel I can wholeheartedly endorse though.

The filter is the critical point with this system.
The original is, IMO, the way to go. (and I am the type of person that is always looking for the alternative option)

Tidepool Can I ask, how many cups of coffee do you think you will generally make when you use it? I used a good handful of times for 1-2 cups of single origin pour over coffees. The average weight was usually around 25grams of beans to 300-400g of water. Do you have a kitchen scale you can use while making coffee?

That's a pretty wide range. Did you have a preference for the top or bottom of that range? Chemex themselves recommend 1:15, I like slightly longer than that myself.

also even for bigger brews like 400g I dont mind the extra precision of a 0.1g scale. I think both AWS (not that much money) and Acaia make nice scales.