The Coffee Shelf Forum

Who can create the best formula for March? Need some help getting started? Visit our Coffee w/ Character page for some ideas (but you can't use one of those). Then go to one of our other menu pages, like for the Frozen Beverages , where you will find a link to our available flavors. The winner will receive a Coffee Bean Badge for the best answer, two free drinks of his/her choice, and their name on the drink for the month of March. So what are you waiting for? Submit your concoction by answering this topic.

I love coffee. I mean, duh! I own a coffee house. I love coffee so much that I'm very particular about the method I use to brew it. I use the pour over method. It's a simple concept, best shown with this picture from my coffee shop, The Coffee Shelf (yes, that was a shameless plug. I mean, you are in The Coffee Shelf forum, LOL. Oops. There I go again). I use a slightly different product to manually brew my coffee. It's called the Chemex method. It's a single glass container, so there are less moving parts (bottom of this post is a link to a picture on Amazon). Here is how I brew my coffee every morning Turn on my kettle to get my water boiling (it's already full of water). Grab a #4 filter made from recycled paper (yes, I'm one of those recycle dorks) Place the filter into the glass cone and run water over it to prepare the filter Dump the excess water out, without removing the filter (the water will run down the sides, but the filter will not fall out - the wetness makes it stick to the glass). Place my grounds into the filter. Only need one scoop because I only make one cup. When my water is done boiling, slowly soak the grounds until they are fully soaked. As the water level drops add more water. But don't go above the initial level required to get the grounds fully soaked (see pic above for example of water level). I continue doing this until I have enough coffee for one cup. The Chemex I use can be found at the below link. It is large enough to make two full cups of coffee.

Yep, that's my favorite. I mean, why ruin it with cream or flavoring? Not that I don't like the occasional latte. Caramel is my favorite flavor. But yeah. Black coffee is what I drink every day. Light roast for the taste, and because light roast has more caffeine. My favorite everyday light roast is a single origin coffee from Nicaragua. But my absolute favorite is from Ethiopia. Kosa Kabeena.