Coffee Recipe Builder (Beta 1.0b)
The image above showcases the famous James Hoffman V60 technique using our brand new Coffee Recipe Builder. While the digital representation looks very clean and well presented, this hand sketch shows how easily anyone can quickly scribble down a recipe. It’s still just as clear to follow and all you need is some paper and a pen.
Inspired by various aspects of sheet music and midi notes on a piano roll, this recipe builder aims to create a brewer-agnostic system to allow coffee enthusiasts and professionals to build and share coffee brewing recipes in a simple, standardised way. Much like music, all brews comprise of events, of varying duration, that happen at different points in time. This system lays out these events in a sequence over a period of time that can be easily followed to brew a given recipe. Quantities, colour coding and additional notes make this very versatile, allowing users to build a vast range of recipes for almost any brewer.
Detailed instructions on how to read these recipes and how you can build your own can be found at the link below. You will also fine other popular recipes like the Tetsu 4:6 documented using this framework.
LINK: https://aramse.coffee/recipe
This builder is in the beta stage and we’re working on improving it over time, based on experimentation, feedback and constant updates and tweaks. It would mean a lot to have the help of this amazing community to create something valuable and universal so I encourage you all to try it out for yourselves and share some of your own recipes, thoughts/feedback and questions on this thread.
Why this project came about:
What I love about coffee is being able to tinker and experiment. This comes from the sheer variety of brewers, recipes and variables that exist. The thing that I found challenging though, is documenting and sharing a recipe easily and also documenting my own tweaks and tests. I saw this happening on various forums too, where posts describing recipes/techniques were several paragraphs long and still very confusing to understand. This gave me an idea and both my wife and I being musicians, that's the first place we went looking for inspiration.