Pour Over vs. Drip Coffee | How are they different?

How exactly are pour overs different from drip coffee? This is a question I often get asked at our cafes, and I thought I would help explain it today! It’s a little more nuanced than you may think. While some baristas and coffee enthusiasts swear by the pour over, others say you can’t beat the consistency of the batch brew.

There are many things to consider whether you are brewing the coffee at home, or if you are in a coffee shop, and we will see what is best for you!

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[im_Spade_]

Love how detailed you lay everything out but keep it so concise. Good stuff!

[dunk]

Turns out I've been making pour over coffee since the 80s and didn't even realise. The standard coffee filters in the UK are the Melitta ones. I thought it was called filter coffee. I'm glad it's considered a good technique watever its called!

[shivanigulia]

Great video! And your set-up's aesthetic is so on-point! 👌

[MrPerrisC]

I make semi pour over, using an inexpensive mr coffee, copper filter.

I keep the top of machine open, simply hit power button of first pour, agitating grinds, when grinds fully saturated, turn power back on, repeat that process a few times.

This is better and more satisfying than my $200 Cuisinart electric pour over, which had a long life of service till I dropped it, didn't want to spend another duce.

On the other hand, my wife prefers her own cowboy coffee with really fine fresh grinded, (she doesn't call it cowboy coffee).

She just brews the grinds directly in her one cup metal coffee pot, then just waits for grinds to settle, to be frank, this is my favorite also

Have you done a cowboy coffee vid? I'm new to your channel if you can link to it thanks, if you haven't done one, it'll be nice to see your tutorial and opinion of product

[donk]

Some mornings I just don't have time to do a pour over and that's when the auto drip comes into play. Thanks for the video ☕

[valedro]

I think lack of consistency is good because that way I can influence my coffee and it can reflect my inner state differently every day.

[stewdun]

Interesting you never touched on 1) Water temp 2) grind size. I own the Breville Precision Bewer - which is the only SCAA “drip coffee maker” (from what I read). Here you can set water temp, and bloom time. In addition there is a option for changing the water head (shower) to use a Hario pour over which uses the V60 filter. SO you can make a pot or a pour over for a cup (so to speak). IT DROVE ME NUTS to try the same coffee, and then change grind size and water temp and try to get the flavor/taste I LIKE. It took some time to finalize my preference. I WISH there was a grind size - such that we had the same designation - like a screen size (used in coffee grading) something we could validate my ground coffee with yours. I see the digital coffee color device to validate roast by color. Boy if we had something for gind. I just varried that and left water temp alone - and that was difficult. THANK for your video. HOPE YOU CAN TALK sometime about water temp v. Extraction as well as grind size.

[yukinakamura]

Thank you for your amazing video. It was interesting topic. How about the Americano? If use same coffee beans for these 3 methods, what is the difference between them ?