The Brew Room: Guide to Gear & Techniques

Airscape storage bin

Coffee Storage For Maximum Freshness

Learn how to store coffee beans and ground coffee for maximum freshness. Protect from air, moisture, light & heat. Featuring one-way degassing valves for peak...

Katelinne Harner
Coffee flight on wood board

What The Cup? An Updated Coffee Measurement Guide

Learn how to measure coffee perfectly for every brew. From grams to tablespoons, discover the right ratios for bold, balanced flavor in your cup. ...

John Helwig
Antique coffee grinder with dark roasted beans next to mug filled with fresh coffee

Coffee Grinders: Blade vs. Burr vs. Hand

Grinding coffee is about achieving the ideal particle size based on the extraction method, and different grinders create different sizes. For example, because it's extracted...

John Helwig
A partially disassembled hand coffee grinder on a white background.

New Gear: BruTrek Camp Hand Coffee Grinder

Coffee is all about repeatability, and there's nothing more repeatable than cold, hard numbers. If you nail your extraction and your cup is perfect, you're...

Christopher Cizek
Person brushing ice cubes off a scale with a cold brewer and coffee bag in the background.

Arctic Cold Brew Coffee System

Why Brew With The Arctic? Cold brew can be hot. Not temperature-wise, but, like, it can look really good. Case in point, the Arctic by...

Christopher Cizek
Coffee person pouring water from a gooseneck kettle into a stainless-steel dripper seated atop a double-walled mug on top of a black scale.

Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper

Why Brew With The Stainless-Steel Filter & Pour Over Dripper Imagine: You just finished grinding coffee for a pour over, only to discover you're out...

Christopher Cizek
A Technivorm Moccamaster automatic coffee maker on a white countertop.

Technivorm Moccamaster

Why Brew With The Technivorm Moccamaster Invented by Dutch engineer Gerard-Clement Smit in the late 1960s, Technivorm's Moccamaster revolutionized home coffee brewing. Though not quite...

Christopher Cizek
Person holding an AeroPress upside down on a kitchen counter with filters, a coffee bag, diner mug, scale, and kettle nearby.

Inverted AeroPress

Why Brew Inverted With The Aeropress? Few manual coffee brewers can hold a candle to the AeroPress. It's portable, packable, uncrackable, and makes impeccable coffee....

Christopher Cizek
AeroPress coffee dripping into a stemless wineglass with ice in it.

AeroPress Cold Brew

Why Make Cold Brew With The Aeropress? That's a rhetorical question. Why wouldn't you make cold brew with the AeroPress!? Alan Adler's wunderkind brewer can...

Christopher Cizek
A fully printed, blue-monochrome bag on a white platform behind two cold brew filter packs and a glass of cold brew on another platform, all on a blue background.

What Are Cold Brew Filter Packs?

Just when we thought cold brew coffee was the best it could be, the FRC R&D team went and made it better. In 2022, we...

Christopher Cizek
A person pouring cold brew coffee over ice in a Mason jar.

Toddy Artisan

Why Brew With The Toddy Artisan Toddy is synonymous with impeccable cold brew, and the Toddy Artisan more than lives up to its name. Unlike...

Christopher Cizek
A Toddy Consumer Cold Brew System on a kitchen island.

Toddy Consumer

Why Brew With The Toddy Consumer When you're making cold brew, you're not just making enough for one cup. Stuff this tasty will have you...

Christopher Cizek
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