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The Brewer Is the Recipe
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- Jun 9, 2026
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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore a question that seems simple on the surface but actually runs deeper than most coffee conversations go: what is a recipe, really? I walk through a recent experiment where I brewed the same coffee using three different methods — the Hario V60, a French press, and the AeroPress — with the same ratio, the same grind size, and the same water temperature. My goal was to keep every variable constant. What I discovered almost immediately is that I couldn't...