Three Spring Blend Coffee Recipes

Spring is in the Air - the birds are chirping and the bees are buzzing! With the Winter we've had, we're looking forward to the sunshine and warmer weather that Spring offers! This year we set out to capture the brightness and warmth that the season brings as we transition from Winter to Spring.

This year's Spring Blend is a beautiful blend of a natural processed Peruvian coffee from the Amazonas region and a natural processed Brazil coffee from the Mogiana region.

We're thrilled with this blend as we feel it's different from last season's Spring blend in the best of ways! With the Peruvian coffee being natural processed, it leads with a brightness and fruit forwardness indicative of brighter Spring days ahead while the Brazilian coffee brings a warming and delicate chocolate note that compliments the brightness of the Peruvian component. We've chosen a light-medium roast level for this coffee because we believe it highlights the full range of characteristics this coffee has to offer, and compliments the change from Winter to Spring!

We also set out to have this Spring Blend brew well across multiple brew methods, so we've come up with recipes for three of our favorite recipes for this coffee:

Technivorm Moccamaster KBTS Drip Coffee Machine:

• 58 g of KAHA Spring Blend medium ground coffee (drip coffee grind size)
• 8 cups water (32 oz in the Moccamaster water tank) of cold or room temperature filtered or bottled water
• This is roughly a 1:16 ratio (coffee grounds to water)
• Place a #4 filter in your filter basket
• Place your 58 g of coffee grounds into the filter
• Turn on your Technivorm Moccamaster to begin brewing

The Technivorm Moccamaster is one of our favorite drip coffee machines for several reasons. They are handmade in the Netherlands, have a copper heating element, they are SCA certified for their precision of water temperature, are built to last, and have simple controls. We especially love the thermal carafe option (instead of glass) to keep the coffee at a great temperature. The brew from a Technivorm Moccamaster is similar to some of the best manual coffee brewing methods such as a pour over or Aeropress brewer, resulting in one of the best cups of coffee you can have from a drip coffee machine. This recipe can be adjusted for any drip coffee machine. This is a great recipe to serve a group of people to enjoy the sunshine and warmer weather!

Aeropress:

• 18 g coffee
• Medium grind size *13 on Baratza Encore grinder (drip coffee grind size)
• 288 ml (10 oz) filtered water
• This is a 1:16 ratio (1 part ground coffee to 16 parts water)
• Add 200 F degree water temperature filtered water
• Stir with stir stick while pouring water to agitate the grounds
• Let steep for 1 min, then plunge until hissing sound
  

This Aeorpress recipe results in a sweet cup with bright acidity, great complexity, and medium body. We love this brew method for its ease of use since you do not need as much technique as a pour over to achieve a great cup of coffee. Enjoy!

Chemex Pour Over:

• 1:16 ratio (1 part ground coffee to 16 parts water)
• 20 grams coffee
• 320 ml (9 oz) filtered water
• 203 F degree water temperature
• Medium fine grind (pour over grind size) *10-11 on Baratza Encore grinder
• Level out the coffee grind bed
• Using your finger, make a divot in the coffee bed for your first (bloom) pour
• Start your timer at the first (bloom) pour
• 52 ml water pour for bloom. Let bloom/rest 40 seconds
• *For all pours, use a low pour height
• Second 67 ml pour at 40 seconds
• Third 67 ml pour at 1:30 mins or when coffee bed starts to dry
• Fourth 67 ml pour at 2:15 mins or when coffee bed starts to dry
• Fifth pour 67 ml at 3:00 mins
• Lift & gently swirl the Chemex brewer to get all grinds from side incorporated
• 5 pours total, including bloom
• You should finish draw down between 3:50 mins - 4:20 mins

We believe the Chemex pour over method, with it's double bonded filter, results in one of the most bright and complex brews for this coffee. This brew method requires the most technique, but is well worth it if you have the Chemex brewer!