Making coffee with the hand filter - here's what you should watch out for
The general trend toward deceleration in daily life supports the comeback of filter coffee and the associated slow way of brewing coffee. People are taking their time again, watching the coffee drip through the hand filter into the cup or pot, and enjoying it. Brewing the black elixir of life with the coffee hand filter is definitely one of the easiest ways to brew coffee. And this is how it works:
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Preparation step by step
Suitable coffees
General
More and more coffee drinkers are preparing their coffee with a hand filter. Even though mocha pots, portafilters and fully automatic machines are now used in many German kitchens: The average German still likes his filter coffee best and drinks it most often. The hot favorite beverage is usually prepared with the classic filter machine. However, interest in coffee brewed with a hand filter is steadily increasing, and it's no longer just the hipsters in the big cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich who are raving about hand filter coffee.
In Italia / All'Italiana
Italian espresso remains a cult favorite. But in the meantime, Italian roasters are discovering the Third Wave movement for themselves with high-quality beans and slow preparation methods such as the coffee hand filter. By reinterpreting the light roasts, the renaissance of hand-filter coffee is also being celebrated in Italy. Filter coffee blends or special single-origin coffees are offered, whose taste characteristics also delight Italian coffee lovers.
Tipp
Single-origin coffees from the coffee hand filter can be drunk slowly: Let them cool down a bit to better taste the special flavor nuances of the respective country of cultivation in your hand filter coffee.