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The French Press is a favorite brew type of many coffee lovers. Here is a simple step-by-step guide to making French Press1.Weigh out your coffee. We use a 1:14 ratio.2.Grind your coffee. Some prefer it a finer grind, we like our grind size slightly larger, around that of a pour over.3.Heat your water to approximately 205F. While the water is heating put the ground coffee in your French press, place on scale, and zero out your scale.4.Once the water is around 205F pour in the desired amount …

First, we preheat the roasting chamber to 420F. The fan is on a lower setting with heat gradually increasing every minute or so. Once this is reached, we pour our desired amount of green beans into the chamber (we typically roast in 2 to 3lb batches). Then, we turn up the air flow so that the beans are producing somewhat of a fountain effect (called loft) and have the heat at the highest setting if using the maximum amount of beans for the chamber.Now comes the waiting and watching. The fir …

Weighing your coffee is not something that most people do before brewing their cup(s) of coffee for the day, but here is why you should consider it.If you have a set ratio of coffee grounds to water for each of your methods of brewing, then it takes all the guess work out of making your cup of coffee every time. For example, I’m currently in a French Press phase right now, and the ratio that works for me is 1 part coffee to 14 parts water. Therefore, I grind 43 grams of coffee beans and di …