Counter Culture Coffee's flash brew pour over

Recipe by Counter Culture Coffee · See the original

Counter Culture Coffee, a roaster from North Carolina, call this method flash brewing. The hot brew runs at a strong 1:11 ratio, and the ice in the server brings it down to normal strength as it melts.

The water amount is the hot water and the ice together. It makes one large glass, about 16 oz.

Iced pour over recipes

Classic

One glass, brewed over ice at a 1:15 total ratio.

20 g · 1:15 · 2:15 to 2:45

Counter Culture's flash brew

A 16 oz glass, poured in small steps onto ice.

30 g · 1:16.7 · 2:45 to 3:15

Recipe

Coffee

Water

Makes about

Change any amount and the whole recipe scales with it.

Ratio: 1:16.7
Water temperature: 93°C
Grind: Medium-fine, like table salt
Time: 2:45 to 3:15

What you need

V60 or another cone dripper and a paper filter
Kettle, ideally a gooseneck kettle
Digital scale with a timer
Burr grinder
Heatproof server or jug
Ice, plus more for the glass

Method

1
Heat water to about 93°C. Put the filter in the dripper, rinse it with hot water and tip the water away.
2
Put 165 g of ice in the server and set the dripper on top. Add 30 g of medium-fine ground coffee and zero the scale.
3
Start the timer and pour 30 g of water to wet all the grounds.
4
At 0:30, pour in circles to 100 g.
5
By 1:00 the level should have dropped about a centimetre. Pour in circles to 200 g.
6
Keep pouring every 30 seconds, or each time the level drops a centimetre, until the scale reads 335 g. With the ice, that makes 500 g.
7
Let it drain, which takes about 3 minutes in total, then pour over more ice.