So what's the big deal?





Well take a look at the picture to the right...

Do you notice anything "wrong"?





If you said the coffee should be pouring all over the counter you're right! The Clever is a neat little device that steeps the coffee until you place the whole dripper on a cup. The cup triggers a valve to open allowing the coffee to pour into the cup.





In theory it should have many of the benefits of french press coffee with a much cleaner cup! Does that make sense?





Ok I'll explain





The coffee steeps like a french press (coffee sits in hot water), and then is drained through a fine paper filter which will get all the silt and stuff!





In Practice: Yesterday we ( Yesterday we ( Jim Saborio and I) brewed up some Kenya Kiambu Ndumberi Peaberry with the clever.





1)We pre-wet the filter in the clever

2) We ground 20g of coffee at a very course setting... near french press and added it to the filter

3) We poured 12oz of hot water over the grounds

4) We covered the filter with a plate (this step helps quite a bit) to keep in heat and stuff

5) We let it sit for 2 minute then fold coffee

6) we let coffee sit for another minute and a half (3:30 minutes of steeping total)

7) we put the dripper on a mug and let the coffee drain out (to stop flow you can just take the dripper back off! neato)





In the cup

I got a ton of lemon tones (expected) and tomato tones (not expected) and not too many other bright tones (I was looking forward to the strawberry and other berry tones it's "supposed to have")





The brightness seems muted and the coffee doesn't have a ton of body





For some reason the citric acid is coming through strongly, but the phosphoric acids which are notorious in Kenyans aren't coming through at all...

If anyone knows the answer to this riddle let me know!









UPDATE: THIS is a great way to make coffee. All in all a fun toy, but I don't understand the hype yet... perhaps in time I will get all the parameters right!UPDATE: THIS is a great way to make coffee. HERE ARE SOME PARAMETERS

This week I finally got my hands on the Clever Coffee Dripper. Sweet Maria's has been going gaga over this thing. Nick Cho ( of Murky Fame ) is also apparently using the brewer.