#GearChallenge – Brewing specialty coffee with a Phin – Part One
Hated worldwide but loved back home, the Vietnamese Phin filter is often looked down upon because it is often linked to the notoriously sweet Vietnamese coffee Cà Phê Sữa đá, an iced Robusta brew with up to a cup of sweetened condensed milk per serving (yikes!). For us, however, we like a challenge every once in a while, let’s see if the Phin is any good. In its defense, the Phin was designed
NEVER HAVE I EVER,
brewed a Yirgacheffe in a Moka Pot. True story, up until one day fellow coffeehead and blogger Syed Naveed tagged us and showed us a rich pour flowing from his brewer with our bag of Yirgies in the background! Stunned into silence I sent him a DM, just to check if he’s still alive, but was surprised how delighted he was with the results of his brew. You see, the Yirgacheffe district in
