Welcome! Please Sign In or Create an Account
New Product: American Coffee Trader's Cloth Filters
Written by Matt Galyon on Apr 6th, 2012
We were heartbroken when we heard that Hario was stopping production of their cloth filters for the Hario V60. We’d fallen in love with the level of cleanness cloth filters produced in the cup. Our palate-driven hearts have, however, now been mended with the discovery of American Coffee Trader’s organic cotton filters. Besides the fact that it buries the issue of pre-wetting your paper filters in an attempt to rid your coffee of that dreaded papery taste, these filters are made from organically grown cotton and American through and through. The cotton that goes into producing these filters is organically grown in Texas, woven in South Carolina, and sewn together with care in Boston, MA.
Getting a chance to meet up and chat with Dylan, the brains and skill behind American Coffee Traders, has ensured my (Matt) confidence in the quality and care put into the American Coffee Trader filters. His motivation for making these filters is the same as our love for the Hario V60 cloth filters, namely, making a better tasting cup of coffee.
We’re happy to be able to offer the full line of American Coffee Trader filters which includes filters for: Hario V60 (size 01 and size 02) and the AeroPress®. Yes, we have cloth filters for the AeroPress® too, we know this is amazing. I’ve been brewing with the V60 02 filter for a few weeks now and am amazed by the quality of the filter and the resulting taste of my brews. For a special introductory pricing, we're selling both sizes of the Hario V60 filters for $10 a piece with free shipping and the AeroPress® filters for $7 a piece with free shipping.
Like this post? Then Subscribe to the Prima Coffee blog by email and get slick articles delivered right to your inbox. No web surfing required.
- 4/29 - Boston Translation or:...
- 4/9 - SCAA 2013: Boston-bound...
- 3/27 - Save Big with Bobby...
- 3/13 - 5 Smashing Coffee Beers...
- 2/15 - Latte Heart Winner...
-
(For a guest barista review, click here.) Anfim's Super Caimano espresso grinder, upon its initial release, was a solid addition to any high-end coffee house. It featured a 75mm flat burr set that helped to give a very consistent grind, allowing baristas to rely upon it for excellent shot-to-shot uniformity. When dialing in a coffee, the Super Caimano had 70 holes in its adjustment collar to allow for tinkering between shots. Now, however, Anfim has added an additional 20 spots for a total of 90 holes in the adjustment collar. The benefit of this? When dialing in and finding the sweet spot for any coffee being used to pull shots of espresso, a key factor the barista must take into consideration is the size of the grind particles. Yes, uniformity and consistency of those grind particles is also key, but the ability to make tiny, incremental adjustments is always helpful when striving to find the right balance of all a coffee's characteristics when pulled as espresso.
-
We've looked long and hard for a scale that we can recommend for our avid manual brewing friends. The scale needed to have a high weight capacity, fast response time and precision calculations, and the ability to disable the auto-off feature to ensure the scale would not shut off mid-brew. The Jennings CJ4000 is the first scale we have offered that meets all of these requirements. With a 4000 gram capacity, accuracy to .5 gram, and the ability to disable the auto-off feature, the Jennings scale is the perfect companion to manual brewing.
-
For most companies it's hard to find motivation for pushing out new products if you find yourself on top already. This is not, however, the case with La Marzocco. The Italian based espresso machine manufacturer continues to push the envelop when it comes to innovations in espresso machine technology. The newest line from La Marzocco continues their progression in the specific areas of temperature stability and pressure profiling. We've discussed the Strada Electronic Paddle version in detail in our Strada EP blog post and listing for the 2 Group Strada EP. The Strada Mechanical Paddle employs technology similar to the Mechanical Paddles on other La Marzocco models but with a few new features including individual pressure gauges, digital PID control, and dedicated group boilers.
