How to Make Coffee

hey kids how's everybody doing today nice to see you again uh so today i'm gonna show you how to make coffee um and i'm actually gonna be including another dad a friend of mine um john he works for a local roaster here in the seattle area named called cafe darte and they actually make my favorite coffee it's called meaning of life cafe d'arte and we're actually going to be doing in conjunction with this we're actually doing a giveaway of a hundred bags of meaning of life um to 100 individuals you have to enter on my instagram though so go there for the details um you get a bag and you get a bag and you get it back i always wanted to say that you know anyway so hopefully you know 100 bags is a decent amount obviously can't give a bag to everybody but at least we'll be able to to hit quite a few of you um and so john has been in the coffee industry for about 25 years i've been friends with him for about seven years he's a great guy he's a dad as well and his kids are similar in age to mine a little bit younger but um and yeah we instantly became friends um and he'll share a little bit about that with you in the video he's going to actually share how to make drip coffee but then also how to use a k-cup uh yeah how to how to make coffee with the k-cup and then also a french press which is pretty cool i told john i said i think you included so much information i probably could have cut it up into three different videos but anyway so he kind of went above and beyond and then also at the end of this too when john's done then i'm going to show you we actually went on a tour of their place and it i'm just going to show you a couple quick clips of that where i have the actual beans before they're roasted in my hands and then all the bags in the background and then show what it looks like when those beans have been roasted and they come out and there's steam coming out it's pretty cool so i'll include that and before we wrap up at the end um but before we do all this i got a dad joke for you so the sheriff was gonna arrest the coffee bean and the coffee bean said i'm just a bean on what grounds ah anyway here's john hey rob thanks for having me i'm so excited to be here today you know how much i love talking about coffee and i have a passion for it so to be able to show some of your viewers some tips on how to make great coffee it's super important to me and i'm excited so thank you so much you know kind of a fun story real quick when we met was years ago and you and i were doing a coffee tasting and i remember that you know we brought we brought donut holes for the customers and we brought a bunch of different coffees for them to try and you and i were waiting as people were coming through the line and they were testing the coffee we kept looking at the donut holes because we were hoping that some would be left over for you and i uh not that we needed them or i certainly didn't but we were hoping there'd be a few left over and there was and so we had a couple donut holes at the end of the facing but what i remember about that day when i first met you is just you were a special person you are a very special person and i knew it from that day we hit it off fairly quickly you know i have a couple of kids my daughter michaela my son spencer you have children and we talked about our family and how important they were we talked about our kids and all their accomplishments and we were just so proud of them so i remember that day and and i appreciate you so so anyway i hope today to share some tips in the coffee business how to make really good coffee at home i know some of your your viewers have different brewing methods so i've set up a couple here and we'll just kind of walk through them i think the most important thing to remember as you can tell we're coming from our training room i'm with cafe darte we're a roaster and we have been for over 35 years this is one of our training and education rooms where we teach people how to not only make traditional brewed coffee but to do espresso and espresso shots but we do a lot of training on people when it comes to the brood side of it and so i thought today would be a good opportunity to share a few of those things for you and the most important thing is is pick a good roaster there are a lot of good roasters out there you might find a local roaster in your area and everybody does a little bit different so find a good roaster number one number two find the coffee that fits your your taste profile if you've never had coffee before start off with something light like a light roast which is a little more light on your tongue and on your palette not too dark or offensive to your palette and you can go to a kind of a medium roast which is what our meaning of life is i'll be demonstrating today and i know rob that's one of your favorites is our meaning of life and then you can go to a darker one so find a good roaster pick what kind of coffee works best for you and then after that it's about storing the coffee and using the coffee so you know storing the coffee in a sealed tight air container is what we recommend don't you don't put it in the freezer no refrigerator just airtight container try to use the coffee within you know 20 days i mean if you use it after 20 days is it still going to be okay most likely it will but we recommend trying to use it up in 20 days i think that way you get the best freshness and then start off with really good fresh water if you have filtered water that's the best we use tap water too every once in a while so you're fine with that you'll still get a good taste profile so let's get into some of the brewing methods for you okay so let's talk about the traditional brewing method which i think is the most commonly used method at home i know my mom still uses the mr coffee and she's in her 80s and she thinks it's the best so mr coffee cuisinart whatever it might be these home brewers work really well so in our business there's kind of a golden cup rule and it comes down to a recipe of how much water to use and how many ounces of coffee so we think the best recipe is about 64 ounces of water with two ounces of coffee now this machine is a 12 cup and it not only says it on the decanter but it says it on the side so you know exactly where to fill that decanter is about 58 ounces of water and that'll work you're always going to adjust your coffee a little bit to your taste profile kind of going back to what we talked about earlier do you like like coffee or dark coffee so the first thing you want to make sure is you pick the right filter i noticed in the store the other day that there's filters that are for one to two cup or four to six cup and you want to make sure that you really get the right one for a 12 cup so pick the right filter number one make sure you have the right coffee meaning of life this is ground for drip there are a lot of different grinds that you can get so if you're ordering it online or picking it up uh you know don't get fresh crunch press grind or espresso grind you want to make sure it's grind or ground for drip coffee that works the best and then have a measure i think that's the key is at home i've talked to a lot of people and they say well i i usually put in you know four tablespoons or six tablespoons and they're not really sure the right amount so if you're using a tablespoon you want to scoop in about 10 tablespoons into the filter and they don't have to be heaping they can just be leveled off 10 tablespoons is about the equivalent to one cup so if you don't have a tablespoon you can find a cup and if you just put ground coffee in there level it off that's the perfect amount of grounds for this amount of water so let's go ahead and open up this machine they've got a brew basket a plastic brew basket inside so we'll leave that in there we'll go ahead and put our coffee that's already got our coffee grounds coffee filter in there as well then we're going to pour the water in and the key with these machines is sometimes if you turn it on too soon and you get called away the kids are bugging you you get distracted it starts to actually heat up so you want to wait before you turn it on and you want to get your water in there first so i'm going to go ahead and put in about the 58 ounces of water we'll get that poured in there real quick and again filtered water if you can find it that's the best the reason why i like this machine for me is that you get the best extraction out of it because the water is in contact with the grounds for a longer period of time say three to five minutes when it's brewing and you're able to get all of the flavor and all of the profile you know kind of saturated in that coffee filter for what i think is the best cup so we're going to close the lid we're going to turn this guy on and it'll start burning okay so another really popular brewing method is the keurig the home keurig system and i like these systems and it's super convenient it's super fast if you don't want to make a full pot of coffee and it's just you i think this works out really well again i the trick here for me is to pick the right coffee there are a lot of different take-ups that you can find out there i'm going to use of course our favorite is our meaning of life picked up this is a medium to dark roast i think it works well in here but because we're only talking about anywhere from 6 to 12 ounces of water if you remember you learned from the last time on the on the root system that it's all about water to coffee ratio and with this system you can only use 6 to 12 ounces of water so you don't get a lot of water and the water's not in contact with the grounds for very long because you know this will brew in about 45-50 seconds the other thing is you can only get so much coffee in this little cup you can get 11 grams in here so it it may make a good taste profile cup of coffee for you if you find that whatever you're using is a little too weak then find the darker k-cup and that might work for you now i'm going to use a demo machine here that we use in the hotels so this only does eight ounces but here it makes a ton of different machines all the way from six ounces to 12 ounces they have a water reservoir on the side so you don't have to fill it up every time again pretty cool system so let me just demonstrate how this works you know take your cake up on this unit you go ahead and just open it up by pressing the button some you just lift the handle and put our cake up in there close it that opens up the lid to the water reservoir and then i just go ahead and add my 10 ounces there's there's a fill line in here so i know exactly where to stop tells me where to stop right there close the lid and hit the brew button in about 50 seconds you'll get a great cup of coffee okay the last brewing method for you guys to try at home is called french press now i know this looks super fancy and it is it's kind of cool this is a french press unit right here i picked the the coolest one that i could find that we had which is of course the gold one but they make different types and different sizes you can have a little eight cup all the way up to a big french press like this they're relatively inexpensive and it's kind of a neat way to serve coffee at home you know maybe you're trying to impress somebody you're having your dad over you want to make them a really good cup of coffee you know this would definitely impress your dad so let me show you how this works i've got a tea kettle here that i've brewed the coffee to about 200 degrees so that's what you want to use is good hot water in the french press i've got our ground coffee here which is our meaning of life but this is ground for french press which is much different it's a much coarser grind because we're just going to put it right into the french press and plunge it which i'll show you in a minute so let's get to measuring this out we'll take our top off the french press here and good we have a tablespoon we're going to use eight of these scoops for this particular group now our bag actually talks about how many scoops to use per uh water remember we talked about earlier the ratio between coffee and water so this is really important so we're at six here we're going to do seven and then let's get up to number eight so there's our eight tablespoons of coffee we're going to take our hot water which is ready here now this is going to be about 32 ounces of water which is perfect for eight tablespoons and as you pour the water in you want to really try and get all those grounds saturated as best you can that's when you're going to get the best extraction out of this fill this up just about there i'm trying to get all the grounds covered in water if not i do have a spoon ready there we go i think it's good to take a spoon if you have one and really kind of mix in the grinds the grounds i always get confused between grinds and grounds but it's coffee so it doesn't matter it's in the cup we're good get that all saturated in there best we can take your plunger set it on top now don't push down yet you want to wait about three to four minutes really let that coffee and the water saturate in there for a while after about three to four minutes you want to then plunge your coffee and that's simply just taking your plunger here and i think this is so cool it starts to push the coffee grounds down and look how beautiful that looks i mean that coffee that just rises to the top as the grounds go down and you want to get that all the way down as far as you can gives you a little bit of resistance because you're pushing down those grinds but the flavor and the body and the aroma is incredible and you know i think i'm just going to grab a cup right out of this and i hope that you guys learned something today about brewing coffee and the techniques for growing coffee so enjoy your coffee and cheers to you all [Music] god [Music] okay wasn't that cool i hope you enjoyed it and i hope it was uh helpful to you again it might have been a little more information than than what you needed if you're just trying to figure out how to use a drip coffee maker but he does kind of go into the little details that some of the finer points of what makes a good cup of coffee so anyway thanks for watching and god bless you