Sowden SoftBrew is a

coffee Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world. Seeds of ...

brewing device which was invented in

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in 2010 by designer

George Sowden George J. Sowden (born 1942 in Leeds, UK) is a designer and product developer. Career He studied architecture at Gloucestershire College of Art in the 1960s. In 1970, he moved to Milan, where he started working with Ettore Sottsass and ...

that requires no pressing. Its operates similarly to a

Chemex The Chemex Coffeemaker is a manual pour-over style glass coffeemaker, invented by Peter Schlumbohm in 1941, manufactured by the Chemex Corporation in Chicopee, Massachusetts. In 1958, designers at the Illinois Institute of Technology said that ...

French Press A French press, also known as a cafetière, ''cafetière à piston'', ''caffettiera a stantuffo'', press pot, coffee press, or coffee plunger, is a coffee brewing device, although it can also be used for other tasks. In 1923 Ugo Paolini, an Ita ...

. Essentially a steeper, that can be used for coffee or tea. The device is sold in different teapots in varying styles, shapes and sizes. The device uses a simple infusion method for brewing coffee. A stainless steel filter with thousands of holes blocks all grounds larger than 150 microns, allowing any grind of coffee to be used, such as fine, medium or coarse.

SoftBrew

SoftBrew is a method of coffee-making that is very different process than

espresso Espresso (, ) is a coffee-brewing method of Italian origin, in which a small amount of nearly boiling water (about ) is forced under of pressure through finely-ground coffee beans. Espresso can be made with a wide variety of coffee beans an ...

- where water is forced through the group head under pressure. According to Chris White, Director at Altura Coffee Co. in New Zealand, “Soft brew makes it much easier to pick up on the distinct taste characteristics coffee. For example, it’s hard to distinguish between the flavour characteristics of Kenyan and Guatemalan coffee in an espresso – but as soft brew you get a much better flavour range on your palate and can really pick up on the nuances.” Other types of SoftBrew devices are filter,

and plunger.

How to SoftBrew Coffee using Sowden SoftBrew

In order to brew coffee using the Sowden SoftBrew, coffee grounds are placed into the filter (which sits in a pot), water is poured over covering the grounds and left to brew for at least 4 minutes to overnight for a stronger cold brew. The strength of the coffee can be adjusted by altering the amount of grounds that are initially placed in the filter. The filter can be rinsed and reused indefinitely, making it more environmentally conscious.

Tea

The SoftBrew teapot uses a concept similar to SoftBrew coffee – a stainless steel filter to hold the

tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and north ...

leaves is an integral part of the product.

References

External links

Sowden SoftBrew Website
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