Haha - thanks! I’m typically a function over form type, but I fell in love with the colors of the Moccamaster brewers so I just leaned into it.

Here’s a wide shot of my (ever transforming) setup. It’s the happiest I’ve been with it in both form and function

We have the best coffee in the world, because of jail.

It’s almost funny how many brewing methods I went through to finally settle on one of the most basic automatic drip machines out there 😅

This mad lad just needed a bubble pump but went and got the whole kit and caboodle.

Yeah - I rotated the output arm on the Automatic brewer 180° so it brewed over the pour over instead of over its own brew basket. The design of this particular brewer totally accommodates it but I don’t think it was intentional…I’ve never seen it done before anyway.

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed guests, and fellow witnesses of this remarkable moment, I stand before you today with profound gratitude and humility. Completing this seemingly trivial task has been a journey filled with challenges and triumphs.

I would like to express my deepest appreciation to the unwavering support of my alarm clock and my coffee maker, as well as the wavering support of my cat. This achievement is a testament to the extraordinary power of perseverance in the face of the ordinary.

Thank you 🙏 🥉

I assume it’s just the brew basket you need to clean thoroughly?

I don’t know much about Yerba Mate, but I did recently learn it’s a caffeinated holly shrub after we moved to a new house and I discovered we have a different caffeinated holly shrub in our yard (Yaupon holly).

From what I’ve read, the indigenous people here used Yaupon to make a caffeinated beverage but the colonial European tea traders were so concerned it would impact their business they spread the rumors that it caused vomiting. They were so successful in their smear campaign that it lead to the scientific name for Yaupon Holly being Ilex vomitoria 😅

Trying to remember my exact progression; I think it was:

• Cheap auto-drip (very brief)
• French press (few years)
• Moka pot (few months)
• French press (few years)
• Aeropress (few years)
• Espresso - BBE (couple years)
• Percolator - (very brief)
• Aeropress (about a year)
• Keurig 🤪(too long…6mo?)
• Pour over- v60 (very brief)
• Expensive auto-drip

…which is where I’ve been for a couple months now, but intend to stay for the long haul…

It’s just evidence of 1) my laziness and 2) my biggest complaint with the Moccamaster: No volume marks on the carafe

Easier to over fill it at the sink, than under fill and make two trips. And since I was brewing into the v60 it didn’t really matter.

The brewer also has no way to turn off the hot plate independently of the water heater and I’d actually be worried to put an empty carafe there. I’ve seen them explode when doing that before.

What can I say? My love of coffee exceeds my body’s capacity to process caffeine.

Before we were old enough to drink my friends and I would sit in the local diner shooting the shit and drinking free refills of coffee until the sun started coming up before we would go home and immediately crash.

Can’t do that anymore. One of the first ways my body started failing me as I’ve gotten older…

And to think I was worried about going to coffee geek jail for unapproved brewing methods.

Turns out I’m going to coffee geek jail for drinking too much coffee…

Sorry for letting everyone down 😞

We only send the most heinous offenders to coffee geek jail. We're coming for you, Folgers drinkers!

That’s a relief…