We’ve just taken stock of some new Hario products: The Buono Drip Kettle and the Cafeor Dripper.
The Buono Drip Kettle is specifically designed to be used with pour-over coffee makers. For those of you not familiar with making pour-over coffee; for the best results you need to pour the water over the grounds very slowly. This gives the coffee time to extract sufficiently. If you pour too quickly there’s not enough time for the water to dissolve the coffee’s solubles so you’ll end up with an under-extracted cup of coffee.
This is where the Buono Kettle comes in. It’s been constructed with a long, narrow spout to restrict the flow of water, so it’s easier to pour very slowly from it. What’s more, the spout is very accurate, so you can ensure that all the coffee grounds are evenly wetted. The kettle may look expensive, but it really will improve the taste of your coffee and as its made from stainless steel, if it’s well look after, it will last for many years.
The Cafeor Dripper is based on Hario’s popular V60 Dripper. The difference between the two is that the Cafeor has a built in stainless steel filter, so doesn’t require any papers. This obviously saves you money, but it also has another affect – the coffee brewed tastes different. This is because paper is a much finer filter medium than stainless steel. The holes in paper are much smaller so unlike stainless steel hardly any oils from the grounds pass through to the drink.
It’s the oils that give coffee much of its body, but at the same time they reduce the clarity of its flavours. So using paper filters makes a coffee with a light body with high clarity of flavours; whereas, using a stainless steel filter makes a coffee with a fuller body, but the flavours are less pronounced.
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Able Brewing is the creation of some upcoming coffee professionals from Portland, Oregon who are seeking to simplify and improve coffee brewing devices. Their creations aspire for increased sustainability through creating reusable products and clean tasting cups of coffee. To date, the company has created two stainless steel filters. The first filter is the Able Disk, a stainless steel filter produced for the Aeropress . The second is the Able Kone , a stainless filter for Chemex pour over brewers. These stainless coffee filters not only cut down on paper waste, but also remove the paper taste from the brewing equation, producing a clean tasting, full-bodied cup.
Thanks for that Jesse.
Yes Able are a fantastic company. We already stock the Able Disk and hope to stock more of their ever growing range of products in the near future.