iWaki Cold Drip

iWaki Cold Drip

We bought a cold drip maker a few years ago in Japan and I put it in the cupboard and forgot about it, yesterday Kim made some Iced Tea and that reminded me of the Cold Drip Maker so I went and found it. The instructions are in Japanese so I did a quick Google and found a Video that said it was it was 40grams coffee to 450mills water. The infusion time should be about 12 hours.

 So I ground the coffee possibly a bit fine but it smelled amazing, I then poured some cold water in to start the infusion.

I let in infuse for a few minutes then I put the top chamber on it and poured cold water into it.

The whole process took about 4 hours and I did some more research which suggests using 370ml of cold water and about 80 grams of ice and that will slow the process down. I will try that in a few days.

The coffee had no bitterness to it but it was strong so I added some water to it.  I will get some filter beans on the weekend and give it another go.
Thanks for reading
Kind E-gards
Dale Stewart

Campos Meet The Roaster

 

Campos Meet The Roaster

A few weeks ago my Coffee Angel Tess told me about this event at Colab Espresso and I was not sure what to expect from it but it sounded interesting. It started at 5:30pm but with traffic we got there a bit after 6 pm.

The Café is a very clean, sharp and modern looking. They had Moonshine on entry and it was very sweet and alcoholic . They had transformed the warehouse to show the coffee machine's internals.

 

 

 

They had coffee samples going, free beer and food, at about 6:30pm they introduced us to Will,  Will was a lovely down to earth guy. It was an amazing story how when he started his first café he failed and that's what encouraged him to succeed. Campos is all about specialty coffee. Specialty means a pursuit, area of study, or skill to which someone has devoted much time and effort and in which they are expert. Specialty Coffee is the way you look after the roaster and how they look after the beans. Specialty is about the care factor from the farm to your coffee cup. It was really good just chatting to him about all things coffee and seeing that passion and love for coffee. Coffee is really a magical bean that brings many people together.
We got a show bag when we left.

 

 

 It was a great night
Thanks for reading
Kind E-gards
Dale