Chemex Brew Guide
The Chemex Coffeemaker is a manual pour-over style glass coffeemaker, invented by Peter Schlumbohm in 1941. It consists of an hourglass-shaped glass flask with a conical funnel-like neck and proprietary filters, made of bonded paper, that are thicker than the standard paper filters used for a drip coffeemaker. The thicker paper of the Chemex filters removes most of the coffee oils and makes coffee that is much "cleaner" than coffee brewed in other coffee-making systems.
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Grind Size: Drip – Medium |
Dose: 30 grams |
Water: 500 grams 205F |
What You Will Need:
- 30g Three Hats Coffee
- Burr Grinder
- Gram Scale
- Timer
- Filtered Water
- Gooseneck Kettle
- 6 cup Chemex
- Filter
Brewing Instructions:
- Bring 500 grams filtered water to 205ºF in kettle.
- Place filter into Chemex with three-ply side towards the spout. Rinse with hot water. Discard wastewater.
- Grind 30g of coffee on a medium setting on burr grinder. Place coffee in filter. Shake Chemex gently to create a level bed of coffee.
- Place Chemex on gram scale. Tare to zero.
- Start Timer. Evenly saturate the ground coffee with 100g water.
- At 1:00, in concentric circles, pour hot water until scale reads 300g.
- At 2:30, in concentric circles, pour hot water until scale reads 480g.
- Once filter is drained, serve brewed coffee.
BREW TIP: If you aren't hitting your brew times, you'll need to adjust your grind size. Coarser = faster brewing. Finer = slower brewing.