"Sock" Coffee Brewers

[headchange4u]

Yama sock brewer arrived yesterday, 2 days before the scheduled delivery date.

I haven't got to try it out yet, but my initial impressions are that it looks very nice. It's smaller than I had pictured in my head.

[mp]

Yama sock brewer arrived yesterday, 2 days before the scheduled delivery date.

I haven't got to try it out yet, but my initial impressions are that it looks very nice. It's smaller than I had pictured in my head.

When is report card time?

 

[headchange4u]

I also retitled the thread to "Sock" Coffee Brewers. The box for the Yama unit actually says "Sock Coffee Pot". Hopefully this thread will become the world-wide repository for information regarding getting the most of out of your socks.

[headchange4u]

Yama sock brewer arrived yesterday, 2 days before the scheduled delivery date.

I haven't got to try it out yet, but my initial impressions are that it looks very nice. It's smaller than I had pictured in my head.

When is report card time?

 

I should do a test run tonight.

[mp]

Yama sock brewer arrived yesterday, 2 days before the scheduled delivery date.

I haven't got to try it out yet, but my initial impressions are that it looks very nice. It's smaller than I had pictured in my head.

When is report card time?

 

I should do a test run tonight.

We'll stay tuned!

 

[peter]

Yama sock brewer arrived yesterday, 2 days before the scheduled delivery date.

I haven't got to try it out yet, but my initial impressions are that it looks very nice. It's smaller than I had pictured in my head.

Judy Carne - Sock It To Me

[crholliday]

A colador or sock brewing method is the national coffee brewing method in Costa Rica.

Using the typical Costa Rican sock, you should prepare yourself for heavy updosing to counter the massive underextraction. The issue I always had (with the native sock) is that when you get the grind dialed for an acceptable extraction, the slowdown in brew-through simply causes the brew water to filter through the sock above the coffee bed.

edit: http://www.ehow.com/how_5000641_make-coffee-colador.html

[BoldJava]

A colador or sock brewing method is the national coffee brewing method in Costa Rica.

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Any market you go to in Honduras has coffee brewing.  It is a 5 gallon pot with a huge immersed sock of coffee steeping in it.  Domestic coffee is let's say, not quite up to Cabal standards?

B|Java

[John F]

If anyone finds any good videos demonstrating "sock pot" techniques, please post them here.

The only thing that comes to mind is maybe shoot a PM to dcmusichound... I think he uses this method a lot.

If it's not him then I've sent you off on a goose chase. 

[headchange4u]

I forgot to report back on my sock brewer. I've been using the same grind that I use for my Hario pour over brewer as well as the same spiral pouring technique . Overall I like the sock brewer a lot. It produces a more full bodied cup, kinda a cross between a press pot and pour over. I am definitely getting more oils in the cup. As with all cloth filters, cleanup sucks.

I'll try to get some pics of the pot in action. The coffee dripping off the bottom of the sock has a very zen-like quality.

[Pyment]

if this is ever going to be more than a fringe brewer, we have to come up with a better name.

What kind of fabric does this cloth pourover use?

[grinderz]

What's wrong with Sock Brewer? I kinda like the unstated yet inferred "Dirty" Sock Brewer aspect of the name. Sorta appeals to the 6 year old in me.

[peter]

What's wrong with Sock Brewer? I kinda like the unstated yet inferred "Dirty" Sock Brewer aspect of the name. Sorta appeals to the 6 year old in me.

Also, our members in Boston should use a red sock.

[mp]

What's wrong with Sock Brewer? I kinda like the unstated yet inferred "Dirty" Sock Brewer aspect of the name. Sorta appeals to the 6 year old in me.

Also, our members in Boston should use a red sock.

Agreed ... and our members in Chicago should use white sox.

 

[Pyment]

What's wrong with Sock Brewer? I kinda like the unstated yet inferred "Dirty" Sock Brewer aspect of the name. Sorta appeals to the 6 year old in me.

Also, our members in Boston should use a red sock.

Agreed ... and our members in Chicago should use white sox.

 

I dunno, I would even prefer "grapefruit brewer" (even though it doesn't look like one).

I suppose if I said to someone that "I made this cup in my coffee sock brewer" they just wouldn't give a "darn". I think that idea has a lot of "holes". I don't think you will see as many places "stocking" them unless it's next to the "hosiery".