Blog — How to: Coffee

Sarah White
How to Make Ice Coffee

How to Make Ice Coffee

The sun is shining, the days are warmer, and it is finally time for iced coffee! Here are our best tips for making an incredible iced coffee. We love the Japanese Style Iced Coffee, which is a pour-over coffee directly onto ice. It makes for a clean, iced coffee that allows the flavours to sing out.   Making iced coffee is just like making regular coffee, except you need to account for the ice. Keep it simple: brew coffee twice as strong and enjoy over ice!   How to Make an Iced Pour Over   4 tbsp (24 g) of ground coffee   210...

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Sarah White
How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

How to Make Cold Brew Coffee

Love a great cup of coffee but looking for something a little ‘cooler’? Here’s our favourite recipe for a cold brew. Make it the night before and enjoy it all day.   Overnight Cold Brew Recipe  Put 60g of coffee in a French Press, 1L mason jar, or other container*  Add 1L of cold water  Steep 12-16 hours, gently shaking, or agitating it once midway  *We recommend making cold brew in a French Press, it makes the straining much easier!     Planning to add ice or milk? Make it a bit stronger, try 80g of coffee.  For the best cold brew...

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Sarah White
Cupping coffee in Level Ground Tasting Room

Water-to-Coffee Ratio

In this interview we find out some easy at-home brewing tips for improving your coffee game from Joshua, Level Ground's Director of Coffee and Q-Grader.

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Fulya Ozkul
Brewed coffee poured from Chemex into black mug

How to Brew: Pour Over Coffee (Chemex)

Two quick step-by-step tutorials explaining how to use the pour over brew method.  METHOD #1: LEVEL GROUND METHOD Recipe: 5 tbsp (35g) medium grind coffee, 600mL hot water METHOD: Place filter in Chemex with the 3 layered side towards the spout. Preheat the Chemex and filter by pouring hot water through them. Pour out water, replace filter & put ground coffee in filter. Place chemex on scale and tare to zero. Start timing, and pour about 80g (mL) of water over the coffee. Gently stir the grounds to make sure they are all saturated. Wait 30 seconds while the bloom de-gases...

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