Simplify Your Brewing - Simplify by Bathtub Coffee vs Mugen by Hario | Coffee with April

[@GoTellJesusSaves]

I love the idea of a single pour dripper that can produce a very tasty brew. Every variable creates differences in the cup. Grind size, pour time and pour velocity, water temp, water amount, coffee freshness, coffee roast level, coffee amount, filter used, brew water composition, grinder used. The list goes on. What I have found is that with every piece of equipment there is a way to produce a very good tasting cup. Figuring out what pleases the drinker of that cup and how to replicate that is the fun of it all. Blessings to you all at April! Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@dylanbeschoner]

I love the brewer review videos. Thanks!

[@ruckus2439]

Only personal notes for this time, but for me the april brewer already facilitates such simple brewing while producing cups that outclasses any and all competition when it comes to light roasts. Although exploration remains mandatory, I don´t see any need to cut two pours to one. One more thing: "tasting very good" is such an understatement when addressing this SL28! Just finished a cup and feeling like "way beyond ridicilously good" is more fitting;)

[@franksalat9665]

Hi Patrick, well made video like always. My thoughts after watching all of your last videos: I already own the April brewer and am happy with it. Learning about other brewers is theoretically interesting and I might get an insight sometimes. But I am not getting another brewer and would much rather learn more about your coffees, recipes, roasting or coffee business. Anyways always glad to see your content. Cheers

[@coffeewithapril]

We will have more of that in the future.

[@franksalat9665]

@@coffeewithapril I will watch all of your content anyways and looking forward to that!

[@EB-coffee]

I have this brewer, and I like using it. But realistically I don’t have a reason to use it. I grind coarse like April, and my brews almost always end at 1:45-2 depending on if I use the April brewer or a V60. I brew American Light-Medium to Nordic Light, and I only bust out the Simplify if I try a new roaster with coffee that’s more developed than I prefer.

[@coffeecove7058]

I don't mind using either method: Fast brewing or the slower ones that require multiple pours. It all depends on my schedule and the time to make coffee. With getting spoiled making good coffee at home with fresh, ground beans, making a quick cup on the go would still turn out better than grabbing it through a drive-through at some places. I enjoy trying out different styles and ways to make coffee, no matter how long the process. Ya learn what works with the time at hand and is the fun part for me.

[@miltonzhang947]

I think the simplest paper filter brewer is Mr.Clever, just a full immersion and no any fancy pouring. What does April think about immersion brew?

[@dylanbeschoner]

I should say...in my experience you can get quite good cups of coffee with the cafec flower and the cafec light roast filters. The filters have a really long drawdown time which helps compensate for the single pour

[@coffeewithapril]

We are a fans of that brewer as well.

[@tippykaffu4047]

My favorite single pour is origami. You just have to go slow pour most of the time and it creates much bolder coffees than most dripper.

[@tippykaffu4047]

I think that this means Simplify brings out the typical characteristic of a "slow flat bottom" with body and sweet and Mugen to be the "conical" with complexity. (I know you can get complexity in flat bottom but that is besides the point.) My assumption on Simplify is that it is needing to use a coarser grind to get that target time. My other assumption is that simplify was targeted towards more wider audience or/and Japanese people which usually drinks darker roasted coffees. Makes me wonder, what if simplify also means that the coffee made was supposed to be made simple as well? In my experience, single pour with high agitation doesn't taste good after 2 minutes like "over-extract". When it was done right, it would be very sweet with darker flavor. I also think that slower vs faster brew mostly has something to do with sweetness and brighter or darker flavor. Rather than the brewing time, I think contact time of water and agitation is more important.

[@Kyle900t]

A good experiment with that brewer would be to pour the 200g of water quickly to get everything wet as evenly as possible, a quick spin/shake to level the bed, cover and let drain. That way I can see a single pour working. It seems pretty clear that a single pour down the center pushes the coffee up the sides and is just not an efficient extraction.

[@kenexlookify]

What is the difference between this and the wave 185 or April in same one pour method

[@dusanmozola1627]

Have you tried different temperatures of water, f.i. under 90°C?

[@stnvs]

If people really want to simplify coffee extraction, they should try some immersion devices like switch, clever dripper or french press. It's really hard for a newbie to get consistent and balance brew by using single pour technique.

[@tippykaffu4047]

Chemex is technically a good non-immersion brewer since they have super thick filter paper that is much more forgiving than modern high clarity brewers

[@error.418]

@@tippykaffu4047 Absolutely not. The imbalanced filter, the stalling if you aren't careful about the spout, the wasteful amount of excess paper... It's not even close to comparable to the switch or clever. It's a relic, a beautiful relic, but a relic.