Sowden SoftBrew (or SoftBrew) is a
coffee
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...
brewing
Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and #Fermenting, fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with Yeast#Beer, yeast. It may be done in a brewery ...
device by the designer
George Sowden
George James Sowden (born 1942) is a British designer and product developer based in Milan.
Life and career
George Sowden was born in Leeds, England, in 1942. He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960s. In 1970, ...
in 2010.
The device uses an infusion method for brewing coffee with a
stainless steel
Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), or rustless steel, is an iron-based alloy that contains chromium, making it resistant to rust and corrosion. Stainless steel's resistance to corrosion comes from its chromi ...
filter and a ceramic pot.
Method
The SoftBrew
brews coffee by
infusion
Infusion is the process of extracting chemical compounds or flavors from plant material in a solvent such as water, oil or alcohol, by allowing the material to remain suspended in the solvent over time (a process often called steeping). An inf ...
(through
steeping
Steeping is the soaking of an organic solid, such as leaves, in a liquid (usually water) to extract flavours or to soften it. The specific process of teas being prepared for drinking by leaving the leaves in heated water to release the flavour ...
) in a perforated cylindrical stainless steel filter cup, which can be washed and reused.
Devices similar to the SoftBrew include
manual drip coffee makers,
French press coffee makers, the
Empot, and, to a limited extent, other
pour-over and
drip coffee
Drip coffee is made by pouring hot water onto ground coffee beans, allowing it to brew while seeping through. There are several methods for doing this, including using a filter. Terms used for the resulting coffee often reflect the method ...
filters.
References
Further reading
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External links
Sowden SoftBrew Website
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Coffee preparation