Comments on: Fine tuning the drip brewer

By: Pawel Gabrysiewicz

Pawel Gabrysiewicz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:44:05 +0000

I'd love to see the compaison made with normal dripper, not steep&release, use the beehause for example!

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By: deangallagher

deangallagher — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:55:00 +0000

Hi Jim,

We've been replicating the test and trying to make adjustments to the grind to reflect what's best for the different filters. It isn't making that much of a difference in that it appears that it is the dusted fines in the grind (that are less effected by the adjustment to main particle size) that are making the difference. The result in the cup overall is negative as there is a greater degree of under extraction and the “muddiness” is still evident.

Having said this – we are still exploring!!

By: dean

dean — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:09:54 +0000

Hi Jim,

We’ve been replicating the test and trying to make adjustments to the grind to reflect what’s best for the different filters. It isn’t making that much of a difference in that it appears that it is the dusted fines in the grind (that are less effected by the adjustment to main particle size) that are making the difference. The result in the cup overall is negative as there is a greater degree of under extraction and the “muddiness” is still evident.

Having said this – we are still exploring!!

By: Grendels

Grendels — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:14:21 +0000

I'm loving mine so far – I'd concur with the paper vs gold foil result although technically mine was a titanium rather than gold foil filter. I tried to replicate the process that SweetMarias used in their test – it seems to give the same results in the cup each time and paper is prefered here in my office. Jim's point about the courser grind is worth experimenting with but I am going to have to take it home again as the grinder here in the office is not up to such niceties. I have only tried with unbleached papers so I'll have to try the oxy process ones next. A great item for 5 senses to stock and already it has copped a few “that'd be a nice Christmas present” remarks.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:13 +0000

This looks like a good test of paper filter compared to permanent filter. The results are interesting, I only question 1 part of this test. From my understanding the grind consistency was the same for the Paper filter and the permanent filter and you found the permanent filter muddy, heavy and overt in flavor. From my understanding a permanent filter needs a coarser grind as compared to a paper filter. I wonder if the test was run again using a coarser grind for the permanent filter you may find a far different result.

By: dean

dean — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:23:33 +0000

Excellent feedback and thanks. We’ll run more experiments over the next month or so with the hope that we’ll be able to both learn and share more.