The primary time I ever heard of Lance Hedrick, an more and more well-liked Youtube content material manufacturer on uniqueness espresso, was once when anyone shared a hyperlink to his Percolative Immersion Brewing Approach video.
This was once considered one of Hedrick’s first (of a number of) “viral” movies, person who were given folks excited about how brewing works and the way we will be able to hack issues up with some easy gadgets. Hedrick’s enthusiasm for the method, his obtrusive love for just right espresso, and the way he digs the “sciencey” nature of espresso all come during the video.
Hedrick additionally somewhat enthusiastically claims this system delivers extra frame, extra acidity, extra sweetness by way of combining the speculation of no-bypass with complete immersion brewing, over a ten minute brew length. It was once intriguing. This is that video.
I favored. I subscribed.
However I additionally consider questioning… why isn’t Lance the usage of Hario’s Mugen brewer as an alternative of the Tricolate software he selected? The Mugen is an ‘unintended’ no-bypass brewer from Hario (I’m positive Hario didn’t intend the design to be that, however it’s), and as the backside of it’s round go out aperture is the same to V60 glass cone filter out holders, it could have compatibility simply fantastic within the Hario Transfer, a drift regulate software from Hario that makes use of a V60 glass filter out holder. The opposite bonus is you don’t run into the problems Hedrick identified in his Tricolate / Transfer hack: there’s no concern a couple of small pool of under-extracted espresso liquid caught between the filter out holder and the Transfer’s go out hollow, or a concern about emptying out all of the ultimate remnants of brewed espresso.
(Sidenote, a couple of yr in the past, I requested Hedrick why he didn’t use the Mugen. He stated it was once easy: he didn’t personal one)
I did personal each a Transfer and a Mugen, and we’ve even reviewed the Mugen right here (although now not the Transfer). So I popped out the glass V60 filter out holder, put in the Mugen, they usually’ve by no means been aside since. It has grow to be considered one of my favorite “pour over” brewers, along side the NextLevel Pulsar, which paradoxically, brewers in nearly the very same approach, albeit with a extra flat backside profile twist. (we lined the NextLevel Pulsar not too long ago).
Right here’s find out how to do the hack, and get a brewer the place the sum is bigger than the portions. I’m additionally going to give the recipe I settled on, which is rather other from the only Hedrick utilized in his video. My function with this brew is a reasonably rapid brew the usage of much less espresso to get extra style, making the most of the short extraction charges you get from complete immersion brewing. I need to pop out at the standard 1.3-1.4% extraction yield, however the usage of much less espresso than I in most cases would.
Hedrick was once chasing one thing else. He begins with an attractive heavy dose (25g / 350ml), does two complete immersion brews, 175ml each and every segment, 4 mins for each and every brew, for a complete brew time of round 10 mins. He additionally claims the grind is round 400um, which is extra like moka pot territory than pour over grinds. His function is to begin heavy, and finish heavy, at a 2% or upper TDS. He states it delivers extra frame, extra acidity and extra sweetness. It’s essential to without a doubt translate his recipe to this Mugen / Transfer hack if you happen to like.
Our recipe for this find out how to is: get started with a 1:20 ratio; this is 1g of espresso for each and every 20g of brewing water. We’ll be brewing with 300ml overall, in order that way 15g beginning weight of espresso. The espresso is floor to the similar stage I do all my pourover grinds when the usage of paper: round 600-650um grind dimension.
