Hey guys, it's Aleš from European Coffee Trip
and in this video
I will show you how to make coffee with one of the first
coffee brewers I ever owned
I used to make coffee.
It's called Clever Dripper.
I still remember the first note about the Clever Dripper
It was from the specialty coffee roasters
who introduced me to the new world of coffee.
They said that if they need to choose only one coffee brewer
they would choose Clever Dripper
and I'm not sure if I totally agree with them,
but I understand the reasons. It's super easy to use
It's reliable and consistent.
The secret weapon of the Clever Dripper is the valve.
It allows combining immersion coffee brewing like in
French Press with drip coffee brewing like V60 or Chemex.
When making the AeroPress movie
they even learned that AeroPress inverted method
was modeled after, at a time, popular Clever Dripper.
Nowadays, a similar principle is used by many other
coffee brewers like Bonavita Immersion Brewer,
Wilfa Pour Over or GINA by Goat Story.
All of them are much more expensive though.
Now, let's see how we can make coffee with a Clever Dripper.
What are some advantages and disadvantages
and at the end of this video, I will share some pro brewing tips
and also cleaning instructions.
So coffee we are brewing today is very special coffee.
It's coffee roasted by Keen Coffee in the Netherlands
and it's the coffee that brought one of its founder Rob
to the World Brewers Cup Championship Final.
And I remember that year because everybody was really excited about
cinnamon tastes like coffee and that's the coffee.
And you know if I look to the descriptors the cinnamon,
sugar cane and passion fruit, so really exciting.
I will use 20 grams of coffee, 300 grams of water.
I will use coarse gring size.
That's about 30 clicks on the Comandante grinder.
There is four minutes steep time
and about one minute dripping.
In total it's five minutes.
So, let's get started!
First fold the paper filter
and place it to the Clever Dripper.
You rinse the paper filter and heat the brewer.
Add coffee and pour all 300grams of water at once,
not specific pouring techniques is required.
Cover the dripper with a cap and let it steep for about two minutes.
Then give it a gentle stir with a spoon to break the crust on the top.
Cover the dripper again and wait until four minutes.
Then place the Clever Dripper on a carafe
and let the coffee drain.
It should take about one minute.
Now your delicious coffee is ready.
In general, recipes range from two to four minutes
and what do you need to adjust is the grind size.
We like longer brews better
because it gives us more time for
cleaning the kitchen or preparing the breakfast.
Now, let's talk about some advantages
and disadvantages of Clever Dipper.
I think one of the greatest advantage
of the Clever Dripper is the fact that you
don't need to use any fancy kettles.
Obviously we used ours
that we have in the office that has a gooseneck
and it's really precise for pouring,
but you don't need to use it at all.
You can use the regular kettle or you don't need to use a kettle at all.
You can just use a kitchen pot
which just boil the water and pour it into the Clever Dripper
and it's fine, because the first stage of brewing
is actually immersion brewing and
pouring doesn't affect it at all.
Another thing that I like about Clever Dripper is the price.
It's relatively cheap coffee brewer,
you can buy it for 20€ or I think even $20.
It's made out of plastic, so it's durable
you don't break it very easily and it can serve you
like me for maybe 10 years.
And also, you can make a big batches with the clever dripper.
You can fill it up to 400 milliliters,
so it's already quite a lot of coffee you brew with it.
Another thing there are many disadvantages of
Clever Dripper as a coffee brewer,
but the one it has is rather big one and
I think Clever Dripper is really ugly coffee brewer
and that's the reason why we don't see it on the shelves of home baristas
and on the bar of specialty coffee shops,
and the next thing is that the Clever Dripper is not super easy to clean.
It's not really difficult, but there are certain specifics
that I want to talk now.
After every brewing you should clean a dripper
with the hot water and let it dry.
This way all parts including the inner valve
will remain relatively clean.
Once in a while, it's good to clean more thoroughly
and take the dripper apart.
I have to admit that I didn't know is possible
before preparing of this video.
Then it's obviously much easier to clean the valve
and all the rubber parts.
You can use regular drip filter from Malita or Moccamaster
But an advanced tip we received from
50% Arabica is to use Hario V60 filters,
the biggest one, number three and fold the bottom part.
These are much finer filters so you should get better
clarity in your cup of coffee.
The next brewing tip
is to add water first and coffee later.
This way you can make sure that all coffee
is properly wet and extracting.
It can solve the problem with clogging or slow dripping,
especially if you use a cheaper grinder
that produces more coffee dust.
Another tip,
if you don't have a proper carafe at hand
is to discard the paper filter after brewing,
pour the coffee back to the Clever Dripper
and let it drain again.
This way, it will mix well,
cool down and introduce air to coffee.
The last tip we received was about the new version of the Clever Dripper
that was released in 2019.
We didn't have a chance to use it yet,
but it's good to know there is a new model!
Thank you guys for watching!
I hope that you enjoyed this video
and you learned something new,
something new about coffee brewing
or about Clever Dripper
and if you use Clever Dripper yourself,
let us know in the comments
what's your favorite recipe or technique.
And if you don't have a coffee at home
Check out Keen Coffee and get some coffees to brew
and I'm looking forward to
see you in the next video very soon.
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Bye bye, ciao!
