(gentle upbeat music)
- Hi, there.
You've probably got some questions.
Why am I in the woods?
What is a Bripe and why, why am I wearing a fake beard?
The answer to all of those is coming.
There's not really a good answer to any of them, really,
other than I kind of want to have some fun.
Now, the Bripe is a product that I saw a little while ago.
It's a brew pipe, it's a coffee brew pipe.
And I looked at the website
and I thought that, that is a very good joke.
That, that you've got us, as the industry,
Like you, you have mocked us nicely.
That is very funny.
And then I was like, oh no, wait, it's actually a thing.
And I tried to buy one
and they didn't respond to any of my emails.
So I thought, okay, no, it's a joke.
It's a joke. Maybe it's not a joke.
It turns out it's not a joke.
It's a real product and I think it is gloriously absurd.
And so I needed to make a video that equaled the intensity
of the glorious absurdity, which is why I'm wearing a beard.
Plus I've always wanted to know
what I would look like in a beard.
And I know this isn't like a perfect match,
but the gray beard just made me look like Santa
and we're not doing, we're not doing Santa
in the woods making coffee,
'cause that's just getting weird.
Let's get on topic.
Let's talk about the brew pipe, the Bripe.
What a tremendous name, what an absurd thing.
I just can't, I just can't get over the fact
that this exists.
I love that this exists.
And, and today, just know I'm having some fun.
The idea is not mockery, other than, you know, of myself.
I just wanted to have some fun.
This is the Bripe.
It's a pipe, it's a metal pipe.
And inside is actually a little filter
that will filter out your grounds
when you're drinking through the pipe mechanism.
And the way you make a coffee with a Bripe is really simple.
You put coffee in first, you put water in,
and then you heat it up.
You let it steep and cool down again,
and then you drink it.
And that's it. That's the whole thing.
And it's just amazing.
Now, before we go any further, I probably,
I'm just going to have to take the beard off.
I'm going to de-beard myself.
I wish I could grow facial hair, I'd have such fun.
All right, moving on.
Hi, there. It's me.
So let's just quickly talk
about what you get when you spend money on a Bripe.
So obviously you get your brew pipe and stand.
You get a blue flame lighter that you're gonna use
to cook this up, and it's terrifying.
You get a very nice felt carry case,
and you get your thermometer.
That's very important.
They recommend you stir with this.
And then you get this, which is a test tube.
A kind of plastic test tube that you you're gonna use
to store your ground coffee, because, you're not weird.
You're not taking a hand grinder with you.
You're just briping. You're just going to take a test tube
of coffee like a normal person.
And so this actually is quite useful,
because getting coffee into the Bripe is quite tricky.
But then, so is getting coffee into the test tube.
So I don't know if there's really a win there.
Anyway, you get, you get a test tube.
I'm going to hand grind some coffee.
Because it's ultimately an infusion brew,
I'm going relatively fine.
Just sort of pour over, a single cup pour over kind of fine.
There's probably no rules here.
I definitely feel that there's no rules with the Bripe.
But we'll do that. You don't need a lot of coffee.
I've been brewing like five/six grams
at a time in my, in my little Bripe.
I don't know how much water goes in,
'cause we're in the woods.
Who's weighing water in the woods? Not this guy.
Now I suspect you could go for a much higher dose,
if you wanted to have a more intense Bripe.
I'm, I'm going for quite a gentle Bripe.
It's my, it's my second Bripe of the day,
so I don't wanna overdo it.
(grinding)
Now this goes in, and as I said,
loading the Bripe: not the easiest thing in the world.
And that sort of is to the top of the dome,
if you didn't want to weigh things.
I brought some fresh filtered water from home.
We're going to fill this up just to the top,
just below the top, right there.
Let's not make our lives complicated.
And then it recommends giving it a little stir
with your thermometer, just to de-clump anything.
Lovely. We're nearly ready for the fun bit.
We take our blue flame lighter.
She's very angry.
And we begin to heat the Bripe, holding
onto our cork handle, keeping ourselves nice and safe.
And we're heating up to 185 degrees Fahrenheit.
'Cause this is an American brewer
and that's, the gauge is on here,
and I'd expect nothing less than Fahrenheit.
This, you couldn't Bripe in metric.
So we've gone up to about 80.
It's not the quickest process in the world,
but imagine you go through a fair bit of butane.
You can see on one side of the brewer
that the heat is not very evenly dispersed
and I've got a bit of boiling going on here,
'cause I'm actually at 180.
There we go. Let it come up to 185.
So now we give it one more stir, just
to help those grounds settle, get everything in.
And so now we wait.
It's infusing, it's steeping, it's brewing in its pipe.
Is it briping? Or am I briping? Are we both briping?
So I'll put this down, and relax for a minute, you know?
All right. We've, we've adequately cooled.
Just gonna put my thermometer down,
'cause I'm ready to Bripe.
Now this isn't the first time I've Briped.
I've Briped before.
This is, you know, you can't do your first time on camera.
Cheers.
I will say, whatever has happened for some reason,
my first sip has always been a bit gritty with the Bripe.
I don't really understand why.
It seems like some of the grounds
get behind the little screen,
so that first sip: little gritty, not bad.
Let's go in for number two.
Mmm.
It's a nice Bripe.
Like it's, it's look, we followed the rules.
It's a, it's a little under extracted for me
because this is quite a light roast of coffee.
And, and we, we were brewing at like 80 ish Celsius.
So really I would have wanted to
take this kind of coffee up much hotter,
and, and you'd get a better brew,
but you'd be missing the point.
You're going to be weighing your water next.
And you know what I mean?
Like that, that's just not, this is not
what the Bripe stands for.
This is kind of the antithesis of how I make a coffee.
And for that reason, I love it.
Could you imagine you and a group of friends go hiking
and you know, there's one other coffee friend there
and you get to the top and he busts out his AeroPress
and he's brewing like an awkward AeroPress, weighing
the water, and it's all a bit difficult.
And you, just rocking a Bripe, sitting back,
relaxing, puffing away on your Bripe, enjoying the view.
Now, what is interesting is you get to the bottom of this.
You'd expect it to almost get siltier.
But I think what's starting to happen
is you have this kind of self filtering bed
where the bed of coffee sat at the bottom
is beginning to trap particles in it more effectively.
So actually, you can drain this dry and it's not silty.
It's quite enjoyable to just finish a Bripe
and you feel like you're, you know,
drinking a bubble pipe or something, but
(slurping)
Every drop. Every drop of goodness.
This appeals to you or it really doesn't.
And either one is okay, I, I think this is fun.
I really do think this is fun.
In summary, this is actually a capable brewer, right?
There, there's a long history of putting coffee
and water together and heating it up and and sort of
straining it out and drinking it, right?
Like that's not new.
That's the oldest way of making coffee
that we still use today.
This, if you put good coffee in it,
if you put good water in it, if you grind your coffee fresh,
makes great tasting coffee.
Of course it does.
Why wouldn't it make great coffee?
That's not the point.
The point is to have some fun and I have had some fun.
And as I said, when I review things, I give them away,
but I'm not gonna give this one away.
I'm gonna buy a new one for one of my Patreon supporters,
because they give me the budget and the support
to make these videos and do these reviews,
and I hope you enjoy them.
I have had a tremendous time here in the woods, briping,
and I hope some of you attempted to Bripe too.
For now, I'll say thank you so much for watching.
I hope you have a great day.
How many times did I say Bripe today? I don't know.