The primary time I ever heard of Lance Hedrick, an more and more well-liked Youtube content material producer on specialty espresso, was when somebody shared a hyperlink to his Percolative Immersion Brewing Technique video.
This was certainly one of Hedrick’s first (of a number of) “viral” movies, one which received folks fascinated with how brewing works and the way we will hack issues up with some easy gadgets. Hedrick’s enthusiasm for the method, his apparent love for good espresso, and the way he digs the “sciencey” nature of espresso all come by means of the video.
Hedrick additionally fairly enthusiastically claims this technique delivers extra physique, extra acidity, extra sweetness by combining the thought of no-bypass with full immersion brewing, over a ten minute brew interval. It was intriguing. Right here is that video.
I appreciated. I subscribed.
However I additionally bear in mind questioning… why isn’t Lance utilizing Hario’s Mugen brewer as a substitute of the Tricolate machine he selected? The Mugen is an ‘unintentional’ no-bypass brewer from Hario (I’m certain Hario didn’t intend the design to be that, however it’s), and since the underside of it’s round exit aperture is an identical to V60 glass cone filter holders, it might match simply superb within the Hario Swap, a move management machine from Hario that makes use of a V60 glass filter holder. The opposite bonus is you don’t run into the problems Hedrick identified in his Tricolate / Swap hack: there’s no fear a couple of small pool of under-extracted espresso liquid caught between the filter holder and the Swap’s exit gap, or a fear about emptying out all of the final remnants of brewed espresso.
(Sidenote, a couple of yr in the past, I requested Hedrick why he didn’t use the Mugen. He mentioned it was easy: he didn’t personal one)
I did personal each a Swap and a Mugen, and we’ve even reviewed the Mugen right here (although not the Swap). So I popped out the glass V60 filter holder, put in the Mugen, and so they’ve by no means been aside since. It has grow to be certainly one of my favorite “pour over” brewers, together with the NextLevel Pulsar, which satirically, brewers in nearly the very same means, albeit with a extra flat backside profile twist. (we lined the NextLevel Pulsar lately).
Right here’s easy methods to do the hack, and get a brewer the place the sum is larger than the elements. I’m additionally going to current the recipe I settled on, which is kind of completely different from the one Hedrick utilized in his video. My aim with this brew is a reasonably quick brew utilizing much less espresso to get extra style, profiting from the fast extraction charges you get from full immersion brewing. I need to come out on the traditional 1.3-1.4% extraction yield, however utilizing much less espresso than I usually would.
Hedrick was chasing one thing else. He begins with a fairly heavy dose (25g / 350ml), does two full immersion brews, 175ml every part, 4 minutes for every brew, for a complete brew time of round 10 minutes. He additionally claims the grind is round 400um, which is extra like moka pot territory than pour over grinds. His aim is to begin heavy, and finish heavy, at a 2% or larger TDS. He states it delivers extra physique, extra acidity and extra sweetness. You may actually translate his recipe to this Mugen / Swap hack in case you like.
Our recipe for this easy methods to is: begin with a 1:20 ratio; that’s 1g of espresso for each 20g of brewing water. We’ll be brewing with 300ml whole, so which means 15g beginning weight of espresso. The espresso is floor to the identical degree I do all my pourover grinds when utilizing paper: round 600-650um grind dimension.
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