Brew Guides

Making coffee at home can be a challenge, but it doesn't have to be. The perfect espresso coffee can easily be made from the comfort of your home with three things: great coffee beans, a great espresso machine, and plenty of practice.

If you're trying to make an espresso or espresso-based coffee, and the coffee is flying out of your portafilter spout, it's not going to make for a great tasting coffee.

Luckily for us, however, it's quite an easy problem to troubleshoot and fix, so you can get the perfect espresso extraction in no time.

The humble Hario v60 is the cheapest piece of gear in the barista's arsenal and yet brewing it well takes the greatest skill and can have the tastiest results.

Let me let you in on a little secret. The Aeropress is every coffee professional’s favourite home brew method. Now they might say it’s a V60, Chemex or even a stovetop, but if you kept track, the one they use most often is the Almighty Aeropress. Why? Because it’s so easy to make amazing coffee.

The mighty Moccamaster by Technivorm is our favourite coffee brewer because of its simplicity, repeatability and the quality and quantity of the brewed coffee it produces.

The stovetop is a hugely popular brewing device. Also called a moka pot, stovetop espresso or Bialetti after its inventor Alfonso Bialetti. It's known for brewing thick, strong, espresso-like coffee. The steam pressure that builds up in the brewing process extracts loads of flavour and crema and can make a powerful and delicious coffee.

The mighty plunger aka French press doesn't always get the respect it deserves. We breakdown how to brew the best plunger and how to get the most out of your French Press Brewing.

 

Wanting to know the best method of tamping your coffee? Here are our top tips to tamping the best cup of coffee possible.

A handy list of troubleshooting tips to improve your coffee brewing skills at-home for AeroPress, Moccamaster, V60 and more.

How to calibrate your EK43 grinder to grind delicious coffee every time.