Brewing Gesha with the Kono Meimon Dripper | Coffee with April #137

It's so fascinating how much of a different recipe you've created for this brewer.
I don't have a Kono Meimon, but will definitely try this recipe with their yellow filter paper on an origami.
Thank you for the excellent content.

Did you ever experiment with using a v60 with 2 filter papers, creating a recipe similar to this one? I think it might be very interesting.

I’m so glad you got a chance to use the Kōno and enjoyed it. The dripper has worked very well for me in competing and for home brews. I love your method and I am also experimenting a lot more with simpler more precise pours. And you touched on the dripper helps highlight some more body in the brew, which helps compliment your Volcan Azul Red Honey Geisha.

My fave dripper! I usually do a 4 x 50g pour brew recipe for Kono as well, adjusting temperature and dose depending on the coffee. I've been finding a 50g - 50g - 100g type pouring is also very good at capturing some lighter notes in coffee brewing and can showcase acidity and balance in an interesting way. Glad to hear you're enjoying the dripper!

I love how you guys constantly update videos. Quality content. Please please keep it coming. Cheers from Pangalengan, Indonesia

Thank you for this video. It’s nice to see you exploring different type of drippers. But as someone just received this geisha, I also want to know how you will brew this coffee with regular equipments you used before like V60 or Origami dripper.

I tried april coffee, and no matter the methode, the taste always comes great. Another story with undeveloped coffee or poorly roasted. I have to tweak my brain just to get that pleasent taste (drinkable) :D

Is this sort of 46 method?

Finally is a 2 cups or 4 cups ? Thx

Where can we order in Europe and France ? Thx

I’d love to see you experiment with the fellow prismo. It’s not espresso, but you can get something similar to a modern lower pressured espresso.

I had some great cups with your h1 filter coffee by grinding 21,5g fine espresso-ish, then pouring 75g of water in 10 sec. stirring 20 times, and start pressing at 45 sec for 15 seconds.

Thank you for the super interesting video as always. I have recently become more interested in a coarse grind style as I believe it will result in more even extraction, so better sweetness, more pronounced flavor notes, etc. Though, I do think coarse grinds sacrifice EY as a trade off. Anyways, one way to allow you to grind coarser, on the hardware side of things, is to use a thicker filter. Though this would allow you to grind coarser, a thicker filter usually sacrifices body. Now do you think it would be beneficial then to have a brewer that is smooth on the inside so that you restrict airflow and thus slow down the brew that way?

where can I buy those filter papers? didnt found them anywhere :((

I recently found that I prefer coarser grind and slower brewer.

just got the kono meimon and brewed this gesha. its texture was like syrup, absolutely amazing

Just one question: when you are using 50 clicks on the Comandante grinder is that 50 clicks with the standard parts or 50 clicks on the Redclix?

Will there be a difference if using the 4-cup version?

I‘m curious. What extraction percent do you tend to aim for... the low end- 18ish, middle- 20ish or higher- 22ish +???

I have REALLY been enjoying this brewer.
I find that a long as I get the filter to stick properly to the sides of the brewer, I have good results with every different brewing method I've used.

One thing I really enjoy about this brewer is that it will make EXCELLENT single pour brews with no stirring or swirling.
I can grind on the very fine side of drip to help with extraction.
Clogging isn't an issue.
I'm getting very sweet and flavorful cups with light, medium and dark roasts.
Quite pleasant texture and acidity as well.
Seems very well balanced to me.
And it's extremely repeatable as the variables are lessened with a single pour.

C40 with a red click? or without?

Ty Pat always appreciate the recipes and research. Coffee game is very tricky Cheers 🙌🙌