Everyday Beans Podcast - Mostly About Coffee and Other Stuff
It's about coffee, food, life and what other randomness I feel that'll be helpful to the common coffee drinker or to anyone who likes to be entertained by a stranger, briefly.
Everyday Beans Podcast - Mostly About Coffee and Other Stuff
It's Not About the Brewer, It's the Recipe
In this episode, I share my weekend revelations about coffee brewing that completely shifted my perspective. I realized that it's not about the brewer—it's about the recipe and understanding the coffee itself. I tested different recipes with various devices, including the Hario V60 and Mugen Dripper, and discovered something profound: we often lose sight of what really matters in our coffee journey. I talk about the "holy trinity" of coffee brewing and why getting yourself out of the way is crucial to making better coffee.
By listening to this episode, you'll learn how to simplify your coffee routine and find more joy in your daily brewing ritual. I'll help you understand why having multiple brewers might be holding you back, and how focusing on just one or two devices can actually deepen your connection with coffee. You'll discover that you're already enough with what you have, and that the real magic happens when you truly understand your palate, your coffee, and your brewing device.
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[00:00:00] It's not about the brewer. It's the recipe. One of the things that I realized over this weekend as I was testing out different recipes, it was pretty cool to kind of just get into the coffee, get into the challenge of really figuring the coffee out.
[00:00:31] And I think that's really the biggest thing. It's something where we are understanding the coffee with the current palette that we have, where it wants to go. And if we lose sight of that, then we truly really don't have anything.
[00:01:23] The holy trinity. That's what we're dealing with right now. And yeah, let me tell you what happened this weekend.
[00:02:16] The other things that I did mention was I wonder if you can do the exact same recipe with the Hario V60. Everything stays the same, right. That's what I was thinking about. Here's the Hario V60, right. And if you look at it, it has a couple of grooves. They're not crazy pronounced as other brewers are now, right. We'll talk about that another day.
[00:03:32] It makes an ugly bed of coffee. You're gonna taste more sweetness than acidity, whatever. And then I started to think of why I liked, or like the Mugen Dripper, because it pushed me out of my comfort zone. It gave me that sense of being in control, well first not being in control, figuring this device out, understanding the coffee, understanding my palate and realizing that even though I have come to understand and bond with this machine, it's a coffee brewer.
[00:04:55] That's all it is. It helps facilitate greatness in coffee or crappiness in coffee, right? Yes, I forgot the grinder, right. That's extremely important for right, whatever that may be.
[00:05:14] So as I sat there and wondered and thought about the whole situation, I was like, hmm, what am I doing here? What am I doing here with all these different types of brewers? What am I giving back to the world? It doesn't matter if these videos are out or people have done them before. The point is that I am putting them out. Really, what's the whole point of all of this? The whole point of all of this is actually this.
[00:05:47] Pick one. Pick two. Just pick a couple. Go with them, season with them. Truly understand that device. Understand your coffee. Find the joy back into your coffee journey. Because that's all it's all about.
[00:06:08] See what you don't like about it. See what you do like about it. See if whatever you're trying to do in the world or in your life in general kind of matches your spiciness or care for coffee. It's always going to be a journey with you and coffee, right. And as we go through life and understand coffee even more, we have to understand that we are going to have to be one with this device.
[00:06:38] I remember for the very longest, the only device I used was the Hario V60. That's it. I didn't know or care about any of the other brewers years ago before I started doing this whole YouTube thing, podcasting, or whatever I'm doing right now. I used my basic Hario V60 filters. I put my cup of coffee together. I was disappointed from time to time. I was happy, ecstatic most of the time. Then I moved on with my day.
[00:07:40] I know Hario has another brewer because I was on the interweb and saw something called the Neo in Japan. It's not out here yet. But it has like 15,000 ridges and they said that this promotes fast brewing. So they're trying to get into the whole fast brewing thing to try to give you options.
[00:08:05] But the point I'm making is that I understand it from the business's point of view. They're just trying to make good devices for us to use. And that's cool. That's something that we want, right. We want something that just works.
[00:08:28] But do realize is that once you're done buying all your devices, believing in all the marketing, playing around with it, testing it out for a week or two, you're going to settle into your old habits. You're going to settle into something tried and true, whatever that may be. Or you may fall in love with that new device. It doesn't really matter.
[00:09:03] All I'm really saying here is that once you get yourself out of the way and realize what you're doing and why you're doing it, you're going to be ahead of a lot of people. And I don't like to compare or give you that idea that you need to compare what you're doing compared to other people. Because if you're in the world, you're already comparing, right.
[00:09:23] But you're enough. I guess that's what I'm saying. You are enough with the way you are with the devices that you're using in order to make a cup of coffee because at the end of the day, that's what we're talking about. A cup of coffee. That's it. We are making a cup of coffee.
[00:10:08] And figuring it out. Tasting it, drinking it. And it just takes you into a different world. It makes you feel alive. It's beyond it being just trivial. It's something that we kind of look forward to. Something that craves more than the caffeine as most people will say that they are gravitated to. Just think about it.
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