Café-style filter coffee: the brewing guide

What you need

• A porcelain or glass dripper and matching filter paper

• 15 g freshly ground coffee (medium, like coarse sand)

• 250 ml water at 92–96 °C

• scales and a little patience

Step by step

1. Put in the paper and rinse it with hot water – this removes the paper taste and warms dripper and cup.

2. Add the coffee, pour twice its weight in water and let it bloom for 30 seconds.

3. Pour the rest of the water in small circles. Total brewing time is three to four minutes.

If it does not taste right

Sour and thin? Grind finer. Bitter and dry? Grind coarser. Only ever change one thing at a time.