The common sizes for chemex brewers are 3 6 8 or 10 cups.
Chemex coffee brewing instructions.
Unfold the chemex filter and insert in the top of the brewer making sure the 3 layered side of the filter is lined up with the pouring spout.
The amount of coffee and water varies depending on the type of coffee you are brewing and your preferred strength.
There are even some apps.
You ll find lots of posts online about chemex brewing that talk about measuring your coffee into proper gram weights using a scale and pouring the water slowly with a timer to ensure an exact volume of water over the ground coffee in 4 minutes to extract the perfect cup of coffee.
We recommend starting with a 1 15 coffee to water ratio when brewing with the chemex.
The resulting cup of coffee is clean and bright and easily adapted to brewing for a solo cup or brunch with friends.
Weigh out the coffee and grind to a coarseness resembling sea salt.
In other words for every 1 gram of coffee add 15 grams of water which converts to about 3 tablespoon of coffee for every 1 cup of water.
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This tutorial walks you through how to brew coffee in a chemex of any size.