I’ve brewed pour-over coffee almost every morning that I’ve spent at home for more than a decade. I’m not one of those people who insists that the routine is a calming moment of zen before a busy day. Often I find it cumbersome and more time consuming than I’d like. But pour-over coffee just tastes so much better when I compare it to all the easier coffee-making methods that exist.
It was possible to customize literally all the variables I take into account when I brew a Chemex carafe and tweak to pull different flavors out of my coffee beans. I could futz and tinker to my heart’s content, and I could save any choices I made to use in future brews, either with a connected app or on the machine’s interface. Miller told me he wanted to make a machine that worked as well for his mom as it did for more obsessed coffee nerds.