Comments on: ESPRO – BLOOM Pour Over Coffee Brewing Kit – Durable Brushed Stainless Steel, Dual Filter with Patented Micro-Filter & 50 Paper Filters

By: Christopher Pacleb

Christopher Pacleb — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Great w/ or w/o Paper Filters!
I got this pourover cone because I was intrigued by the ability to brew without filters. It could be a penny saver, and a space saver, and I would never be up a creek without a coffee filter, because I don’t need one.The pros:-You don’t need a paper filter-Comes with a few paper filters (or at least mine did)-You don’t need to worry about cracking or shattering ceramic or plastic-It looks cool-You can make tasty coffee-Coarser grind can reach paper filter speeds without a paper filter (although the flavor profiles will change with different grind settings)-You don’t have to use the ESPRO proprietary paper filters if you don’t want to *(More on this below)The cons:-Slow brew time with the same grind without paper filters (Around 7-8 minutes for 20g coffee grounds at setting 34 on 1Zpresso JX-Pro, whereas with paper filter it’s 3 minutes or less)-Cleanup without paper filter (Can’t just throw away the grounds; you’ll need to rinse and maybe knock out some grounds from the metal filter bed holes with a brush; I used my bean grinder brush, but you might not have that if you just buy grounds or if you have an electric grinder with bellows or something, and thus would need to figure out how to clean the ESPRO)-Proprietary filters are expensive**I tried out a few possible other filters which would be cheaper than the ESPRO filters. I didn’t see anything about this online, so maybe I’m sharing information that is new. I tried out Melitta #2 cone paper filters, Melitta 8-12 cup basket coffee filters, and 51mm portafilter espresso paper filters. The espresso paper filters just block up the bottom of the cone and don’t even let water through. However, both the cone and the basket filters work pretty well. The cone filters don’t reach the bottom of the ESPRO, so if you pour way too much water too fast, you might break a hole in the bottom of the paper cone filter if you don’t position it right. The basket filters aren’t quite as tall as official ESPRO bloom filters, so you have to be careful not to overfill your pourover, lest the grounds float up and around the paper filter, making your paper filter only a little bit effective, and requiring you to do more cleanup afterwards. In terms of use, the original filters will work the best, but these other options are there as well.

By: M. Sweeney

M. Sweeney — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

BEWARE!!! DISCONTINUED!!!!!! Solid Product
Edit: This is discontinued and ostensibly they’ll stop selling the proprietary filters.I was initially underwhelmed with this but I tweaked grinds a bit and it does perform. Grind finer than you think you need and it works best. Not sure about without the filter but I’m still working on a good grind for that. Overall when compared to my CCD and AP and the overhyped Pulsar this thing makes great coffee. Good body, great flavor, good richness despite short contact time. This works. And the filters are fine to separate. Pull them off from the outside!Bonus: Melitta number 2 filters work great in this with a few folds.

By: weez

weez — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Easy and great coffee
I saw this on a FB video lol and had to try it. I did a full taste test lineup with this, this without the filter, my Keurig (using a filter with my own coffee), and the Aeropress both standard and Hoffman style. This with the filter won hands down. No bitterness, no sediment, just pure and delicious coffee. I also love how easy it is to use and clean. I use a regular Krups pitcher not the gooseneck one and it works just fine. Put the Keurig in the cabinet and the Aeropress in the donation pile and using this from now on!

By: S. Foster

S. Foster — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Great flat-bottomed pour over
This brewer is pretty great! As with any pour-over brewer, technique is everything. Itâs better to use an automated machine than bad technique with a manual methodâ¦ but I digress.This brewer is interesting because itâs a completely different brewer if you use it with or without the filter.First, either way, it brews quickly, without much resistance from the bottom of the basket. Even though the holes at the bottom are tiny, there are a lot of them. I like this so that the resistance to flow comes primarily from the coffee rather than from the basket.WITH the filter, the grind can be relatively fine without sediment, which slows down the extraction. However it brews with a decent amount of âbypassâ which is not always a good thing. But with some experience, a good balance was achieved that allowed me to have a fine enough grind to get the extraction I want but minimize the bypass that dilutes the coffee. I end up with a nice clean cup of coffee!WITHOUT a filter, you get a zero bypass brewer but a bit of silt. The holes are small enough that it will hold relatively coarse coffee grounds without much flowing through. You donât have to go French press-coarse, but more coarse than other pour overs. It brews very quickly this way. So for proper extraction, you need to add the water slowly or in pulses.Also, I highly suggest a good burr grinder before using this. I wouldnât even think about a whirly-blade grinder without a filter. If using a filter, a cheaper grinder would work, but you wonât be able to get as good consistency brew to brew. Not a show stopper though.Overall excellent brewer. My only complaint is the cheap tack welds holding the brew basket to the support ring. For the price, I expect better construction.I got the one with the glass carafe. Itâs been great. I use it with all of my brewers these days. And I have several. I like being able to see my coffee as it brews. Then I can pour it directly into whatever mug I want. Some of my mugs have small openings that donât fit all manual brew methods.Iâm very pleased with this brewer and highly suggest it to anyone wanting a versatile, flat bottomed pour over brewer.

By: Amazon Customer

Amazon Customer — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Been committed to the pour over since my barista days. Gone through so many glass and ceramic cone drippers. Refused to go plastic. No more broken glass and chipped ceramic. Perfect. Had it for a year now and itâs starting to get a little colour where the coffee goes through but I could be better about giving it a quarterly deep clean, I just soap and water it daily.

By: magnif

magnif — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Truly a nice experience of brewing and easy to clean. But the filters are a headache to seperate. I brew without for most of the times with coffees that have less oils.

By: User

User — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Pretty expensive gear but on the other hand at least it is available as an option to purchase locally.What made me choose this over other pourovers was the apparent option to brew without the filter paper. I tried the recipes both with and without the filter paper using a really burnt awful coffee as a “benchmark”. Surprisingly both methods got a lot of the bitterness out and made the bad coffee “drinkable”. Granted this might not be helpful to many but just thought I’d throw this out there.Here is some information which might be useful though:1. It is as much a pain to separate out the paper filters as you’ve probably heard in various reviews. Remove filters from the outer filter end and not the inner end.2. The wave patterns tend to collapse pretty easily and need to be shaped back into theur original form or the paper filter will become deformed when it gets wet.3. Obviously this will differ with coffee beans and with grinders but I settled on 13 clicks (loosening from the tightest setting) for with the paper filter snd 18 clicks without on my timemore c2 grinder4. There is definitely more clogging of the metal mesh without the paper but it tasted as I expected from a non paper filtered pourover (more body, less draw time, some channelling, yet still a “filtered” taste)5. I’m not sure if the kalita wave paper filters will be “fully compatible” with this but seems like it should work (espro filter availability seems limited)6. Did not come with much documentation and the one card with instructions printed that did come with it were pretty vague for a beginner.7. The base sits pretty well on top of a variety of cup sizes.

By: Francisco N.G.

Francisco N.G. — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

I got my first Espro Bloom as a participant in the crowd-funding campaign. I like very much the high-quality craftmanship of the stainless steel. It’s very easy to clean and it sits well on all the cups I tried. The coffee-making process is more elaborate than the alternatives. You got to make the coffee bloom!It can be used by itself or with a filter. I prefer using the Espro paper filters (one package is included in the box).Great accessories are a scale (at least 1 gram sensitivity, with a timer – I’m very happy with the KitchenTour Coffee Scale with Timer) and a kettle with a gooseneck spout (for precise and controlled pouring).

By: Sebastian Guth

Sebastian Guth — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:15 +0000

Wir haben unseren Nikolauscafe damit gemacht, einfach schÃ¶nes Ritual

By: DeeDee D.

DeeDee D. — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:33:14 +0000

This thing is super cool. #nofilter
Perfect size and hole count for pourover grind spec. If they made a *snowpeak style titanium version that nested into common titanium mugs I’d pack it bikepacking or UL fastpacking. So simple, easy to clean, no hot touch silicone lip and the peep hole to sight the liquid fill level if you’re not premeasuring the water. The grind fill lines are accurate if you aren’t premeasuring the coffee. I just wish it would have an option to not send the included useless filters. Thats the whole point. No waste, no papery taste.