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Todd Carmichael Reveals Mysterious New Brew Method

April 18, 2014 By Michael 3 Comments

Carmichael brewer

In one week international man of intrigue Todd Carmichael will compete in the US Brewer’s Cup, a competition that crowns the nation’s best brewer of black filter coffee. It’s fairly standard for competitors to develop their own customized technique for the competition, but a new video leaked by Carmichael himself reveals the owner of La Colombe has gone so far as to invent his own brew method.

On Twitter Carmichael referred to the apparatus as the “Manual Siphon 2.0” and spoke of the benefits of “slurry temp profiling”. The video has no sound, but it appears to use multiple chambers to control the temperature of the fully immersed coffee grounds. A plunger causes the mixture to run through a filter and into the bottom chamber of the apparatus, which doubles as a server. Carmichael’s patent-pending use of the Bonavita Variable Temperature Kettle makes a showing as well. From all appearances this approach is involved, tedious, and arcane. In a word, we love it.

Hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to sample what we can only dub “the Carmichael Brewer” at SCAA this week. In the mean time we’ll be looking for a glass blower to fashion us one.

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Filed Under: Videos Tagged With: Brewers Cup, La Colombe, Manual Siphon 2.0, Todd Carmichael

About Michael

Michael Butterworth is a coffee educator, consultant, and writer. He cofounded the Coffee Compass mostly as an excuse to visit more coffee shops. For consulting enquiries please visit butterworth.coffee.

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  1. James Tooill says

    April 19, 2014 at 10:45 am

    It’s beautiful!

    Reply
    • Michael says

      April 19, 2014 at 12:14 pm

      I know, right?! I wonder if he’s going to sale them.

      Reply
  2. CoffeeMakerPedia says

    April 23, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    Ha, that’s great! Be sure to let us know how did the sampling go 🙂

    Reply

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