Today, I'm going to show you how I make V60 coffee using the Decent Espresso machine.
The first thing you need is the Decent spray head basket;
it's a shallow portafilter basket that we have retrofitted with nine precision holes
to make the high-pressure spray that we prefer for making pour over coffee.
We lock that into the portafilter,
lock that on the machine.
I've already pre-wet and pre-heated the V60,
but I'm going to run a little hot water through the spray head to heat that,
and I'll just - might as well use that extra pre-heated water for the filter.
Can't hurt to make the filter a little warmer.
I've ground up 22 grams of this very nice Ethiopian dairy from Last Stand Coffee in San Francisco.
Okay. I'll drain that.
Right, I'm going to make the bird's nest, so to speak.
And as I make the bird's nest, I try to be very gentle at the grounds so that they don't get too compacted,
I don't want to create any clumps.
I'd rather have the grounds be nice and fluffy.
Set this V60 under the spray head, and we're off.
With the Decent, you can set as many custom recipes as you would like,
so this particular recipe runs at 8 ml/s.
There's some aggressive spinning during the pre-wet, later spins will be very gentle.
So like I was saying this is running at 8 ml/s, which is the flow rate that I recommend in order to get the highest extractions possible
Although with decaffs and some Ethiopians that are prone to choking,
I will often use 6 ml/s just to play it safe,
because the extra turbulence from the higher flow rate may promote choking.
This program has a pre-wet, a bloom phase, and then three pulses separated by pauses.
You could program it however you'd like;
if you'd like more pulses, fewer pulses, if you want to wait longer between pulses,
if you want to change the flow rate. You could change the temperature of each stage - anything you want.
You can also run it based on pressure instead of flow;
that works extremely well, but that's a little bit more finicky,
so I tend to use flow, just to make things a little bit easier and more consistent.
I maintain recipes for 15, 20 and 22 g doses, although you can, like I said, customize it however you'd like.
You could have 10 different recipes or just rely on one recipe all the time.
I find that a pre-wet plus 3 pulses at 8 ml/s generally gives me the highest extractions I can get.
Total brew time is usually between 4 and 4.5 minutes.
So that's the formula that's worked best for me.
I hope that as more people use the machine for pour-over that they find recipes and tricks that will
make the coffee even better and make the extractions even higher than what I've been able to achieve.
So far though, I get about 1% more extraction using the Decent that I can doing a hand-pour from the kettle,
so I am quite happy with that result.
This is the second pulse.
Just skip it very light,
rock. The spin helps to break up channels,
and if you spin too hard, you might end up ascending some of the fines within the brew to the filter
and plugging up the pores of the filter. But if you spin very gently, you should be able to break up the channels,
but also allow enough flow for the brew to finish in a reasonable amount of time.
It's almost ready for the last pulse.
I'll do a light spin at the end, and that's it.
It should draw down over the next minute or so.
If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you. Thank you very much.