How To Brew Kalita Wave Coffee

The Kalita Wave, from Japanese company Kalita, is a great dripper for both coffee professionals and beginners. Its flat bottom with three extraction holes allows for a very even brew. The wavy filter and design of the dripper allow for less contact between the filter and the dripper meaning that the coffee can quickly drip through before bitter flavors develop.

What you need to brew:

Kalita Wave 185 brewer
Kalita Wave filter
Kalita glass server
Hot water gooseneck kettle
25g of coffee
400mL of 195-205º filtered water
Scale
Timer

brewing standards:

Dose = 25g of ground coffee
Bloom = 50mL of water for 30 seconds
Final water weight = 400mL
Pour time = 2 min
Brew time (total time) = 3-3:15 min
Coffee to water ratio = 1:16
Grind = Finer than drip

Step 1:

Weigh out 25g of your favorite coffee and grind slightly coarser than table salt.

Step 2:

Heat Kalita Wave, filter and server by pouring hot water in the center of the filter; this will also help reduce the flavor impacted by the paper. Pour hot water out of both the server and the Kalita Wave.

Step 3:

Place Kalita Wave and glass server on scale and zero out. Add exactly 25g of freshly ground coffee to the filter and level out. Zero out scale again.

Step 4:

Start timer and pour 50g of hot water over the coffee, saturating the grounds. Allow the coffee to sit until the timer reaches 30 seconds before adding more water; we call this the ‘the bloom’ or ‘de-gassing’ and it's when the coffee releases gasses trapped in the cells.

Step 5:

At 45 seconds pour 150mL of water, pouring in a swirling motion starting in the middle of the coffee bed and working your way out towards the filter.

Continue to pour 50mL of water about every 15 seconds until 400mL is reached. Try to finish pouring in 2 minutes.

Step 6:

Allow the coffee to continue dripping until finished. This should happen around 3 to 3:15 minutes. You should have a nice flat bed of coffee in your filter.