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Hoffmann’s light-roast method
James Hoffmann’s upright light-roast method, independently explained.
Method: James Hoffmann
- Coffee
- 11 g
- Brew water
- 200 g
- Time
- 3:00
A better ritual.
One brew at a time.
Choose a starting point. Adjust your dose. Follow each pour with a guided timer, then keep the version you love.
10 recipes · all freely accessible
Tim Wendelboe’s filter-style cup
Stir before and after a short immersion.
Method: Tim Wendelboe
- Coffee
- 14 g
- Brew water
- 200 g
- Time
- 1:50
Tim Wendelboe’s strong cup
A moka-style concentrate rather than espresso.
Method: Tim Wendelboe
- Coffee
- 20 g
- Brew water
- 125 g
- Time
- 0:45
Némo Pop’s 2025 championship method
An upright competition method with a Flow Control Filter Cap and separate dilution water. The original equipment matters.
Method: Némo Pop · + 70 g bypass
- Coffee
- 18 g
- Brew water
- 100 g
- Time
- 1:10
The everyday press
A straightforward upright brew with a short immersion and a gentle press. A useful baseline for a medium roast.
- Coffee
- 15 g
- Brew water
- 210 g
- Time
- 2:00
Small & strong
A short, concentrated cup for adding milk or water afterwards. It is not espresso and will not have espresso crema.
- Coffee
- 18 g
- Brew water
- 100 g
- Time
- 1:50
The slower morning
A longer upright immersion to explore how contact time changes the cup. Keep your usual beans and compare with the everyday recipe.
- Coffee
- 14 g
- Brew water
- 200 g
- Time
- 3:30
A balanced pour-over
Three manageable pours with cumulative scale targets. The final drawdown is an estimate; record your actual finish time.
- Coffee
- 20 g
- Brew water
- 320 g
- Time
- 3:30
An easy immersion
A simple immersion baseline with a four-minute steep. Decant after brewing to separate your drink from the grounds.
- Coffee
- 30 g
- Brew water
- 450 g
- Time
- 4:50
Brewed over ice
Use the hot pour-over baseline, then chill the brewed coffee over ice to taste. For a calculated split between brewing water and ice, use our iced coffee calculator.
- Coffee
- 20 g
- Brew water
- 300 g
- Time
- 3:00
Original starting points and independently written guides to credited methods. Illustrations are schematic or conceptual; these are not CupClarity taste-test reports.