Spiced pour over coffee
Mix fresh-ground or whole spices right into your coffee grounds for a warming coffee treat.
Pour over coffee is simple, sustainable and delicious. It is the absolute best way to highlight the unique flavors of your favorite beans or to experiment with different varieties of coffee and bring out their unique attributes.
If you want to understand the differences between the pour over method and machine-brewed or French Press coffee, head over to our blog about the benefits of pour over. If you want to level up your game, check out our blog about how to make a better cup of pour over.
From there, you might experiment with adding complementary spices for the ultimate coffee treat. That’s the magic we’re serving here!
How to make spiced pour over
The short of it is this: mix your favorite spices right into the grounds and pour the hot water through.
Ingredients
The ratio you’re going for is ⅓ tsp of ground spices for each 42 grams of coffee. This makes one cup of pour over.
The recipe below is for two cups of coffee brewed using a Chemex coffee maker. This is a great starting place for any pour over method. If you’re making a single cup using a dripper, just cut the recipe in half
Gather together:
⅓ tsp ground cinnamon
⅙ tsp ground cloves
⅙ tsp ground nutmeg
84 grams of medium ground coffee
1400 grams of water, boiled to 205 degrees
How to make it
Rinse and wet your coffee filter and place it in your coffee maker.
Place the coffee maker with the filter in it on a kitchen scale and zero it.
Grind your coffee, if doing so at home.
Mix the ground coffee and spices together and place in the filter. Here is where the scale comes in, if you’re using one. You’ll get exactly 84 grams + the weight of the spices (which you can weigh ahead of time for extra precision)
Bloom the grounds with hot water (about 205 degrees). To bloom, slowly wet all of the grounds and let sit for 30 seconds. You should see the coffee rise and bubble slightly.
Finish pouring the hot water in slow spirals until you have the right amount of water, about 1400 grams for this two-cup recipe.
Pour into your mugs and enjoy.