My name is Ann Bryant and I'm a barista and shop girl here at 44 North.
Okay, so I'm going to take you on a tour here of our brew bar. This is a very simple setup.
What you would use at home is just one of these over a cup. This is just a setup so that we
can do a lot of them at once. The reason why we do this is because now we can offer all of our
coffees by the cup during the day and have them fresh and ready to go for people. It takes three
minutes so I'm going to take you through that. I'm going to be grinding 22 grams of coffee for a
12 ounce pour. What to brew? I'm going to brew the Mexican medium roasted coffee that we have.
When I open this container it's this beautiful chocolate smell that comes up. So I can eyeball
22 grams. That's what I do. A lot of times when I'm brewing this for somebody I will let them smell
the grounds as we're going. That's one of the other really nice advantages of doing this right in
front of a customer who comes in. Now one of the important parts here is I'm just going to do
what's called the bloom. I'm not going to start brewing yet. I'm just giving this just enough
water and the water and the coffee wakes up and you can see it rising there. I'm looking to move
12 ounces of water through this coffee about three minutes, three and a half minutes. They're
fully filling it up just keeping the bed of coffee in there nice and fluffy. What the bloom does is
if I just hit that with water and started putting water through it, their first third of the cup
is a little bit weak. This gives you a beautiful syrupy start to the coffee. It really wakes it up
and that's how you end up with a stellar cup of coffee in here. That's how you can make one at home too.
One of the things I appreciate about a manual brew bar is the reverence for the coffee. Farts
come and how many hands it's touched from grower to picker to processor to drying and all the way
here to roasting. That's about it. It's pretty simple but with a little bit of care you can make a
perfect cup of coffee this way. So that's me and shopgirl barista here at forty four nine.
