The Muck Stops Here.
The best features of French Press and pour-over brewing were accomplished with a patented stopper — a most simple valve lever. Clever Dripper has eliminated the drawbacks of French Press mesh filters by giving control over steeping while removing the sediment.
Brewing with a paper filter is easy, convenient and clean. This is full-immersion brewing. Like all filter-cone brewing, you directly control the temperature of the water, ratio of water to grind and infusion time.
Sentiment without the sediment
(Championship recipes specifically tailored Clever Dripper to focus on water-first immersion to maximize extraction efficiency and prevent clogging.)
Coffee: 20g [15:1 ratio]
Grind: [fine] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [coarse]
Water: 300g at 200°F–205°F (93°C–96°C)
Method:
Water First: Add 300g of hot water into the Clever Dripper before adding coffee. (This prevents the grounds from settling into the filter draw-down hole prematurely).
0:00: Add 20g of ground coffee directly on top of the water.
0:00 – 0:30: Gently crust-break / submerge the grounds with a spoon using 3–4 light stirs to ensure complete saturation. Place the lid on top.
2:00: Give the slurry 2 gentle swirls.
2:15: Place the Clever Dripper onto your vessel to engage the release valve. Target total draw-down by 3:00–3:30.
There will be a rush of water and sometimes this can put a hole in your filter. To keep that from happening, fold your filter at the bottom. No. 6 filters are better than No. 4 filters to keep the top of the filter even with the brewing device. Because the No. 6 is larger, you can also fold each side of the cone by a half-inch and it fits very well. If you are discriminating, try Filtropa filters.
