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Fellow Stagg X

Six Pour

George Howell Coffee's six-pour Kalita 185 guide provides the pattern for this Stagg X adaptation. Equal, alternating pour-and-drain periods repeatedly refresh the flat bed, seeking uniform extraction and a sweet, clearly structured cup.

1:16.7 Ratio
3:30 Total
18g Dose
95°C Temp
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Parameters

18 g
Coffee
300 g
Water
1:16.7
Ratio
95 °C
Temp
4 medium-fine
Grind
3:30
Total
~300 ml
Yield
Grind · 4/10 · fine-medium
FINE COARSE

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Method

3:30 · total

Before you brew

  1. 1 Rinse the filter and preheat the brewer with hot water.
  2. 2 Add 18g of coffee and level the bed.
  1. Pour 1 / 7
    0:00
    30s

    Pour 50g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 50g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s 95°C
  2. Pour 2 / 7
    0:30
    30s

    Pour 50g to 100g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 100g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s
  3. Pour 3 / 7
    1:00
    30s

    Pour 50g to 150g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 150g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s
  4. Pour 4 / 7
    1:30
    30s

    Pour 50g to 200g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 200g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s
  5. Pour 5 / 7
    2:00
    30s

    Pour 50g to 250g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 250g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s
  6. Pour 6 / 7
    2:30
    1m

    Pour the final 50g to 300g from the centre out and back to the centre, keeping the stream over the coffee bed. Aim at any dark or dry patches.

    +50g→ 300g Spiral outward 3.3g/s 15s
  7. Done 7 / 7
    3:30

    Finish when the coffee stops dripping.

Notes

Make six 50g additions, pouring for 15s and allowing 15s of drainage each cycle. Sweep from center outward and return, covering dark spots without touching the wall. Coarsen if water accumulates across cycles.

Original source

Recipe by George Howell, published at georgehowellcoffee.com.

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