The Brewer Family, Do You Know Them All? (Part 1)

Some people may be a coffee drinker, they drink coffee everyday and definitely enjoy the aroma of coffee. But, do they know the story of the coffee they are drinking? Here are the coffee brewer family, do you know each of them?

1. The Coffee Percolator ( invented during year 1810-1814 )

American-born British physicist and soldier Count Rumford, otherwise known as Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814). He invented a percolating coffee pot between 1810 and 1814 following his pioneering work with the Bavarian Army. This coffee percolator also name as the moka pot. How to brew a perfect mocha? Read it here. You also can make espresso with this moka pot do you know that? If you also interested in making espresso with moka pot, follow the instruction here, it's simple.

2. Siphon Coffee Maker, or The Vacuum Coffee Maker ( invented year 1830 )

This is my personal favorite! You can enjoy the process by looking at how the coffee is being brewed and also enjoy making it like a boss. :) I bought myself a set of this few years ago and I'm still using it in my hometown in Penang, Malaysia. But because I constantly need to be working overseas, I bought another set just to put it in my workplace. 

A vacuum coffee maker brews coffee using two chambers where vapor pressure and vacuum produce coffee. This type of coffee maker is also known as vac pot, siphon or syphon coffee maker, and was invented by Loeff of Berlin in the 1830s. These devices have since been used for more than a century in many parts of the world and more recently have been given a new use by molecular mixologists and chefs to make hot cocktails and broths.^[1] The design and composition of the vacuum coffee maker varies. The chamber material is borosilicate glass, metal, or plastic, and the filter can be either a glass rod or a screen made of metal, cloth, paper, or nylon.

3. Royal Belgian Balancing Siphon Coffee

I also have one set of these at my office in Penang, Malaysia. For me, it's a collection, gold in color. I have only used it for once or twice. As I did not have gas burner and only used alcohol burner, the bottom of the water section was burnt to black color so I stopped using it. This is another version of the Siphon coffee, a revolutionary type of "automatic Siphon" I call it. 

Here you can see how the pot works by itself until the end of the process while you're talking with your friend. After that, tadaaa~~!!! You just have to open the tap/valve and  the coffee comes out from the tap! An early variation of this principle is called a balance siphon. This implementation has the two chambers arranged side by side on a balance-like device, with a counterweight attached to the heated chamber. Once the vapor has forced the hot water out, the counterweight activates a spring-loaded snuffer which smothers the flame and allows the initial chamber to cool down thus lowering pressure (creating a vacuum) and causing the brewed coffee to seep in.

Continue to learn more about the coffee brewer family =)