Kalita Wave

Name: Kalita Wave, after Counter Culture
Yield: 500 g
Ingredients: 30 g coffee; 500 g water

after Counter Culture

Coffee : water

1:16.7

30 to 500 gBloom and 3 pours, 3:30 to 4:00 in total.

What it brings out

Balance

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Roast

Light
Medium
Dark

Light to medium. Our reading; the source names no roast.

Provenance

Counter Culture's Kalita Wave for a large mug: a bloom, then a pour every 30 seconds.

Source

Counter Culture Coffee: Quick + Easy Pour Over (opens in a new tab)

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What we changed: Nothing. Every value as published, in our words.

Values per Counter Culture, unless marked "ours".

Recipes credited to people or brands are our retelling of what they published. Bunchum is not affiliated with them, and they have not reviewed or endorsed this app. Names and trademarks belong to their owners.

Steps

before
Rinse the filter
Rinse the filter with hot water and pour it away. Add the coffee and level the bed.
0:00 to 0:30
Bloom60 g
Pour 60 g so all the coffee is wet.
0:30 to 1:00
Pour 1to 200 g
Pour in circles up to 200 g.
1:00 to 1:30
Pour 2to 300 g
By 1:00 the level has dropped about a centimetre. Pour in circles up to 300 g.
after
Pour 3to 500 g
Keep pouring in circles every 30 seconds, or each time the level drops a centimetre, up to 500 g.
after
Drawdown
Let it drain. It should be finished by 3:30 to 4:00.

Values as published; the times are for this amount.Adapt as a copy

Four sides of the cup

Balance: No single trait leads. Named by the source

Our tips

For your next brew: try it and taste.

Grind

Medium

A little finer than coarse salt

Sour or thin: grind a little finer. Bitter or drying: a little coarser.
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Drains much slower than the recipe says: grind coarser. Much faster: finer.
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Coffee : water

Water

93 °C

Hotter water extracts more: stay hot for light roasts, go cooler for darker ones.
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