Ahnstar - Seoul | Home Coffee Brewing with April #15

This week, we’re bringing you the fifteenth video from a series that we call Home Coffee Brewing with April.
We believe that innovation in coffee brewing starts at home, and that some of the most special and meaningful interactions with coffee can take place within your own kitchen.
As we are travelling frequently travelling visiting our international partners, we decided to introduce this format as a way to interact with you on a different level whilst maintaining the frequency of our videos.
We’re still on our travels, this time meeting with Ahnstar in Seoul to brew a washed Ethiopian coffee as both hot and iced filter. Ahnstar may be a familiar face already, as he has a very established KZbin channel (@ahnstar_), featuring many great videos relating to specialty coffee and coffee culture in South Korea.
Thank you to @ahnstar_ for hosting us in your apartment and sharing your brewing methods with us and our channel.
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[@redchen3682]

Love watching Ahnstar videos. He has a very down to earth approach even to specialty coffee. I'm really glad his videos has English subtitles on them. 😊

[@coffeewithapril]

Absolutely.

[@coffeewithapril]

In this week's video, we are showcasing both a Hot and Cold brew approach using the April Brewer. In Korea, it's common to drink ice coffee all year around, so Ahnstar decided he wanted to share both. Is anyone else brewing ice coffee brews out there?

[@Huppuppup]

In Korea, there is a meme called iced Americano even if you freeze to death.

[@coffeewithapril]

@@Huppuppup it sure is. They really enjoy it and we have been starting to enjoy it more and more as well.

[@rjshron]

excited to try this iced coffee method! Uploads are amazing as always :)))

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for watching. What is your go-to recipe at the moment?

[@sejonggong]

Shout out to Ahnstar! A hero, like Robert Fortune of specialty coffee market in Korea🎉

[@coffeewithapril]

Absolutely, and his unspecialty - coffee education - project is great and much helpful for the development of the local coffee market.

[@jonsadler6338]

I really liked the simple brewing method for the iced coffee..... 1 to 10 ratio, slow pour, 2 ice cubes..... nice, no fuss!

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for watching Jonas. It came out really tasty and well balanced. Iced coffee displays a different expression of the coffee and that's interesting. Do you usually brew ICED coffee? Any preference between cold brew and an iced brew?

[@OmnielCapote]

Hello Patrik. Thank you for another video in this series, I really enjoyed it. Happy holidays.

[@coffeewithapril]

Glad you like it. We have more coming. Anything special you are interested seeing in future videos?

[@winny6919]

very discriptive , enjoy!

[@coffeewithapril]

Which version of the brews did you enjoy the most? Hot or Cold?

[@franciscoweitzman8892]

Really loving this series, keep it on!

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for watching Francisco. What would you like to see next?

[@franciscoweitzman8892]

@@coffeewithapril Hi! Thanks for your response. I love the way people dial in espressos, according to different coffees and roast levels. I would also love to see how other people from around the world use your April brewer in different coffee cultures. I have my techniques which I believe are different from what people are used to, and not to mention your 2*100g pours which I believe are very specific to your equipment and coffees that, for instance, are not that common here in Argentina, and therefore I would like to see different approaches to further improve my own. Aside from these series, I really enjoy educative roasting videos and science forward ones. Thanks again, and I am eager to try your coffees (which I haven't had the pleasure to try yet) in your April brewer which is awesome! Love, Francisco

[@coffeewithapril]

@@franciscoweitzman8892 we will do our best to make sure you get some good content in 2024. Thank you for watching Francisco. Happy Holidays.

[@franciscoweitzman8892]

@@coffeewithapril Happy Holidays!

[@Java_CM]

I actually just found Ahnstar's channel through Sang Ho Park about a couple weeks ago and now he is appearing here, very cool lol. Any plans for a "Brewing with April" in Japan? would be cool to see. Looking forward to more of these videos while your in Korea.

[@coffeewithapril]

Thank you for watching. We hope to be able to do videos in Japan in the future. We have three more videos in Korea before we go over to Taipei. Is there any other country than Japan you would like to see videos from?

[@Java_CM]

@@coffeewithapril USA/Canada, Italy and anywhere is Asia would be neat.

[@NexusS4GIceJelly]

Awesome! What did you think of the Lagom 01 grinder?

[@coffeewithapril]

It's been a great grinder so far. We used it to brew 200+ pour overs per day over three days in Taipei for not so long ago. Great results. Have you used any of the Option O grinders?

[@NexusS4GIceJelly]

@@coffeewithapril That’s awesome! I wish it is as quiet as the Lagom P64 that I have with SSP 64mm Multipurpose burrs

[@coffeewithapril]

@@NexusS4GIceJelly it's not a very quiet grinder but it producers a great cup quality.

[@Liamsnocodedrip]

@@coffeewithapril how would you convert the hot brew grind size into commandante clicks?

[@coffeewithapril]

@@Liamsnocodedrip thank you for watching. That is a good question. Most likely you would start around 27 clicks.

[@fufu4129]

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