Chemex 8 Cup Chemex
Two-Pour
Scaled Hoffmann pour-over technique for the 8-cup Chemex. Clean, sweet, and balanced.
Parameters
- 40 g
- Coffee
- 640 g
- Water
- 1:16
- Ratio
- 100 °C
- Temp
- 6 medium-coarse
- Grind
- 4:30
- Total
- 3
- Servings
Method
4:30 · total-
Bloom 1 / 50:00+80g add
To
80g
12s CircularCreate well. Pour 80g, swirl.
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Pour 2 / 50:45+300g add
To
380g
40s CircularPour steadily to 380g in circles.
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Pour 3 / 51:45+260g add
To
640g
35s CircularPour to 640g.
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Swirl 4 / 52:30
Gentle swirl.
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Done 5 / 54:30
Brew complete.
Notes
Original source
Recipe by James Hoffmann, published at youtube.com.
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Definitions, ratios and protocols behind this recipe.
- Chemex The Chemex is mostly known for its hourglass silhouette, but its real signature is the paper. Chemex bonded filters are 20–30% thicker than standard pour-over papers — they trap more oils, more fines, and slow flow noticeably. The brewer is a vessel; the filter does the work.
- Processing Coffee grows as a cherry. The bean you brew is the seed. Processing is everything that happens between picking the cherry and getting a dry green bean ready to ship — and it's the second-biggest flavor decision after origin. Two coffees from the same farm processed differently will taste like two coffees.