The Brew Room: Guide to Gear & Techniques

A partially disassembled hand coffee grinder on a white background.

New Gear: BruTrek Camp Hand Coffee Grinder

Coffee is all about repeatability, and there's nothing more repeatable than cold, hard numbers. If you nail your extraction and your cup is perfect, you're...

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Person brushing ice cubes off a scale with a cold brewer and coffee bag in the background.

Arctic Cold Brew Coffee System

Why Brew With The Arctic? Cold brew can be hot. Not temperature-wise, but, like, it can look really good. Case in point, the Arctic by...

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Coffee person pouring water from a gooseneck kettle into a stainless-steel dripper seated atop a double-walled mug on top of a black scale.

Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper

Why Brew With The Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper Imagine: You just finished grinding coffee for a pour over, only to discover you're out...

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A Technivorm Moccamaster automatic coffee maker on a white countertop.

Technivorm Moccamaster

Why Brew With The Technivorm Moccamaster Invented by Dutch engineer Gerard-Clement Smit in the late 1960s, Technivorm's Moccamaster revolutionized home coffee brewing. Though not quite...

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Person holding an AeroPress upside down on a kitchen counter with filters, a coffee bag, diner mug, scale, and kettle nearby.

Inverted AeroPress

Why Brew Inverted With The Aeropress? Few manual coffee brewers can hold a candle to the AeroPress. It's portable, packable, uncrackable, and makes impeccable coffee....

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AeroPress coffee dripping into a stemless wineglass with ice in it.

AeroPress Cold Brew

Why Make Cold Brew With The Aeropress? That's a rhetorical question. Why wouldn't you make cold brew with the AeroPress!? Alan Adler's wunderkind brewer can...

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A fully printed, blue-monochrome bag on a white platform behind two cold brew filter packs and a glass of cold brew on another platform, all on a blue background.

What Are Cold Brew Filter Packs?

Just when we thought cold brew coffee was the best it could be, the FRC R&D team went and made it better. In 2022, we...

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A person pouring cold brew coffee over ice in a Mason jar.

Toddy Artisan

Why Brew With The Toddy Artisan Toddy is synonymous with impeccable cold brew, and the Toddy Artisan more than lives up to its name. Unlike...

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A Toddy Consumer Cold Brew System on a kitchen island.

Toddy Consumer

Why Brew With The Toddy Consumer When you're making cold brew, you're not just making enough for one cup. Stuff this tasty will have you...

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A diner mug in front of an electric kettle beside a scale and coffee carafe.

Asobu Pour Over Kit

Why Brew With The Asobu Pour Over Kit? A dripper, filter, and insulated carafe in one curvaceous package, the Asobu Pour Over Kit is all...

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A Hario Cold Brew Bottle with coffee in the bottom on a kitchen island with a hand pulling away a glass of cold brew in the background.

Hario Cold Brew Bottle

Elegant borosilicate, silicone, and ultrafine mesh come together in one of the sleekest cold brewers to ever grace your refrigerator door. The Hario Cold Brew...

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Person pouring hot water over coffee grounds in a Chemex Funnex pour over dripper on a scale.

Chemex Funnex

Chemex Corporation's entry into the coffee dripper market, the Funnex hit the scene in 2020. This wasn't the company's first go at a dripper, though....

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