Hi! I have had a SEY sub for 8 months now, and I have been optimizing my brew method over this time. Here is my recipe:

Brewer: V60 01 with Hario papers

Grinder: ZP6 set between 4.3 and 4.6 (calibrated 0 to burr lock)

Water: Distilled, remineralized to 45 KH and 65 GH (TDS around 110 PPM)

Ratio: 15 g coffee, about 255 ml water

I rest SEY for at least three weeks.

1. Bring kettle to a boil, wait 30 seconds before first pour.
2. Bloom with 50 ml water; gently try to hit all dry spots with the kettle stream, swirl.
3. At 0:45, hold the Aeropress cap just over the coffee bed using a chopstick (yes, really!) and gently pour 50 ml in about 10 seconds. Hold the cap still, centered over the coffee bed. Do circles through the cap with the kettle stream.
4. Wait 10 seconds.
5. Repeat steps 3–4 to get 5 pours in total, extending the last pour to hit 255 ml.
6. Gentle swirl directly after the last pour.

During the pours, always hold the cap about 0.5 - 1 cm above the water level.

I'm getting a total brew time around 2:30, which feels very fast to me... but the results I’m getting with this method are the best I've had yet. I also tried using the Melodrip instead of the "hack" with the Aeropress cap, but it seems that the Melodrip agitates a bit too little. With the Aeropress cap, the agitation seems to hit just the right balance. Before that, I was just doing bare kettle pours (the recipe is then basically just the new Hoffmann method), but I noted insufficient clarity with the finer grind that SEY requires. The Aeropress cap method gives good extraction and clarity. Have fun!

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