I love coffee. 💕☕️
Brewing the coffee
Heavenly fragrance, inhale
Sipping, delicious
My Coffee Order
- Most places: cold brew coffee, black with ice
- If they don't have cold brew: Iced Americano, black
I like coffees with fruity tasting notes the most.
Favorite Coffee Shops
- Reborn Coffee Roasters - I usually go to their Brea cafe, but they have several more locations throughout Southern California. They roast their beans in Brea, California. I usually get the Ethiopia Cold Brew.
- Caffe In Coffee Co in Anaheim, California, or the original Caffe In Coffee in Tustin, California.
- Portola Coffee - I used to visit their Tustin location when my daughter used to have a dance class nearby. That location is gone, but they have another one in Costa Mesa, California.
Coffee Recipes
Cold Brew Coffee Recipe
I use the OXO Cold Brew Maker and make my cold brew at a 1:8 ratio, which is basically double strength. That means that whatever amount of coffee I use, I use eight times that amount of water. For drinking, I dilute with about half cold brew and half water.
Directions
- Grind 5oz of coffee at the coarsest setting and put it in the cold brewing container.
- Pour in 40oz of water and stir a little.
- Leave it on the counter to brew for 24 hours. There's some wiggle room with the time, but 24 hours is usually the best. I find the magic starts to happen at around 20 hours of brew time.
- When it's finished brewing, strain out the coffee (with the dripper valve if you're using the oxo brewer) and put the finished cold brew coffee in the refrigerator.
- This cold brew is double strength, so mix even amounts of it with water for drinking.
AeroPress Coffee Recipe
- 20g coffee, ground medium-fine (level 4 on Ode Gen 2 grinder)
- water at 203°F
Directions
- Set up AeroPress for standard brewing, with a paper filter and on top of a carafe or mug and place on a scale set to grams.
- Pour the ground coffee into the AeroPress and tare/zero out the scale.
- Pour 200g of water into the AeroPress
- Stir a few times, back and forth, with the paddle stirrer
- Pour water to 280g
- Remove from scale before pressing slowly with the plunger
- When all the coffee is pressed, remove the AeroPress.
- If brewed into a carafe, pour into a mug.
- Add a splash of cold water
- Enjoy!
Iced Pour-Over Coffee Recipe
This recipe is from this Fellow Brew Guide(archive). After ordering the coffee it's written for, I started trying the iced recipe right away, to be ready for when those special coffee beans arrived. I really liked the recipe, and kept using it for iced coffee when I didn't have cold brew ready but wanted something iced.
Supplies: Flat-bottom dripper(I use Stagg XF) with a paper filter and a carafe
- 25g coffee, ground at medium setting (4 on Ode Gen 2)
- 125g ice in carafe (I sometimes pour 125g water into my carafe in the morning and put it in the freezer, and it's frozen by the afternoon.)
- 250g of hot water, 202°F
- Put 125g ice into the carafe.
- Put the ground coffee into a paper filter, and put the filter in the dripper.
- Put the dripper on top of the carafe which has the ice in it.
- Put everything on top of the scale and zero/tare the scale.
- To bloom, pour the hot water to 75g and wait 45 seconds.
- Pour to 160g and wait for it to be mostly drained.
- Pour to 250g and swirl it when it's not too close to the top of the filter.
- Wait for the coffee to finish dripping, then remove the dripper.
- Swirl the carafe until all of the ice is melted. The coffee should be cold now.
- Pour over fresh ice to serve.
Coffee Beans
- Yes Plz Coffee Subscription
- Fellow Drops
- Brandywine Coffee Roasters - This roaster is far from me, but every time Fellow Drops has one of their coffees, I order it. I've ordered directly from them a couple times too, and I've also tried their tea. I especially enjoy their co-ferment coffees.
Coffee Gear
- AeroPress - the AeroPress Pink Clear is my favorite!
- Stagg XF Pour-Over Dripper
- Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Kettle - I have the Warm Pink color
- OXO Cold Brew Maker
- Fellow Ode Gen 2 Grinder
- Fellow Mighty Small Glass Carafe
- Escali Primo Digital Food Scale (pink) (Amazon link)
- These Desert/Coffee demitasse spoons (Amazon link)