Thank you! I would love to enter it in the near future 😀

Glad you're enjoying it! I love mine.

Funny I have kind of the opposite problem, I've been dialed in with kalita 185s in 02 V60, delicate, good acidity, tea like but not astringent (whenever I test a cone filter again they always taste a mess and very unevenly extracted, sour w/astringent), but after getting an april I can't get get it dialed at all, they taste almost as uneven with sour and astringency. I keep wanting to go back to my og combo

I agree. I have been using this pouring structure on all of my flat bottoms but depending dripper I can get stalling due to how fast the water gets added! This happens on the stagg X for me for example

@@BrianQuan Yeah I can definitely see this happening with stagg X. I enjoy the staff x for longer brew times and get tasty stuff, and do this April style/method and get good stuff too. Back not that long ago pour over recipes we’re so odd and exact to weird grams and timings. Im glad people are correcting and trying to make things simple and straight forward. Ex:“Pour 47g @ 1:03”

Mine is on the way!

@@BrianQuan Looking forward to your feedback!

Loving the Orea V3, definitely my daily driver. Very consistent and more polyvalent for different recipes

@@crispypappadums What recipe(s) are you enjoying?

@@adamthemute I love using it with the Melodrip and pulse pours. Also using no-bypass filters for extraction ++

Which grind size do u usually use with the Jx pro?

Anyone is the US that we can buy April dripper through? Or straight from April?

@@braxtonjens7839 Eight Ounce Coffee in Canada has them, unsure about free shipping though.

@@braxtonjens7839 Kumquat Coffee in LA has them too! Local to me in the Bay Area, Lookout Coffee carries them.

Ceramic.

Had the same thoughts. He really advocates another companies product and basically recommends it over the company he works for. But I am not complaining. Honesty is good for the viewer haha.

I asked myself what's the EY of this brew method, came to the comment section and saw your comment... Jonathan Gagne talks about agitation in his book and this is what I've understood from it. Let's take a scenario where the coffee passes through the coffee without any agitation - just a body of water through the coffee. In this scenario there will be some more extracted areas and some less, since water finds a less resistant channel. In this case we should mix the coffee in order to introduce more of the coffee to the water. In this brew method we agitate the coffee a lot in the early stage of the brew, but immediately after stop. The coffee settles down, channels start to form, and extraction diminishes from certain areas. In my experience, after reading the book, partitioning the brew into few pours is great for fully extracting the coffee. Each time the coffee settles and you mix it again and create the wanted agitation.

I've been getting 15-16% EY on april with april's technique but the outcoming cup is surprisingly balanced. My guess would be a lot of bypass happening. What orea technique did you use?

@@duckyou9668 Balanced because of the low extraction? Maybe. The technique i used on the Orea is 15g Dose 255g water (1:17) 45g 45sec bloom > 150g > 205g> 255g Total brew time is around 3min30sec-4min I also used this method on V60 for brewing bigger dose (20g-30g) getting very similar result. (Bigger dose on V60 is more consistent & faster flow)

James Hoffman actual have a video on dripper and he got quite high extraction on April brewer with April technique (the highest actually) among dippers like stagg and v60.

April looks for a 1.25-1.35 TDS and they don’t believe a +21% is tastier (at least for their coffee)

I assume the heavy pours means more agitation making up for a coarser grind... lots of ways to get there in the end.

I'm very curious with this too!

Sounds like this dripper is perfect for you then! I don't think this needs a handle as you can lift up on the bottom fins or the edges if you're afraid of it getting hot.

How it’s worked for me, is that it lifts the grounds in the slurry and agitates the grinds. This often speeds up drawdown times making for faster - non stalled brews. (In conjunctions with the other aspects; coarse grind, only 2 pours, no stirs or swirls)

I actually find the April recipe to work quite well for medium roasts as you'd want a more harmonious/blended brew for some mediums IMO

Depends on the coffee you use! im between 1;40 and 3:30 all light-medium light roast

Nope! You are using a coarse grind size with this dripper if you follow April's recipes.

@@BrianQuan I watched April recipes video. For 13g dose they use 26 click on C40 which is the typical C40 setting for V60 dripper too, I would call the grounds medium size. For 30g dose, April do use really coarse grounds. So to those who didn't watch April's orginal video, the "really coarse grind size" statement may cause misunderstanding.

@@BrianQuan what would the approximate setting be on an Ode w/ 1.1 burrs?

Are you using the April filters? I found Kalitas can stall much more than the April filters.

I am, really didn’t expect any stalling issues with the design, but I guess it happens. I’m still just over a 3 min brew time, but only 12g coffee to 200g water all poured over 1 min, so it seems odd. Setting was about a 4 on stock fellow ode and as coarse on the dial as I could go on a df64 with ssp mp’s

@@ThunderRunner It depends heavily on the coffee you use. Got brews from 1:30 to 3:30 i find this brewer really inconsistent

Based on my experience with April's V60 recipe I'd start with 30 clicks (standard axle) and adjust from there. For their V60 technique I was using 31-32 clicks for a couple of different beans and that gave me the best results.

@@mariuszw2263 using 16 clicks for my v60 recipe. Coarser and the brew time is too fast. Using darker roasts 1:15 and it takes 2.30min to 3min.