<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Coffee on Mike Bell - Blog &amp; Stuff</title><link>https://mikebell.io/tags/coffee/</link><description>Recent content in Coffee on Mike Bell - Blog &amp; Stuff</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</managingEditor><webMaster>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</webMaster><copyright>© 2026 Mike Bell</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://mikebell.io/tags/coffee/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Dripster Review</title><link>https://mikebell.io/posts/dripster-review/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell)</author><guid>https://mikebell.io/posts/dripster-review/</guid><description>
&lt;p>After a recent trip to St Ives and the wonderful &lt;a
href="https://www.instagram.com/mountzioncoffee/"
target="_blank"
>Mount Zion&lt;/a> coffee I&amp;rsquo;ve decided to step up my game and buy some new toys for the kitchen.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>First up is a timer - One of the things I learnt while in St Ives was the importance of draw down time. Too long and the coffee is over extracted too short and it&amp;rsquo;s under. Both very important. The difference is like night and day and it&amp;rsquo;s made me start brewing V60 again after a long break from it.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Second is a bamboo stirer - Not really much to say here, it&amp;rsquo;s used to alter the draw down time in the V60, I was using an Aeropress one but it felt too big for the V60.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Third and most awesome is a &lt;a
href="http://dripster.de/en/"
target="_blank"
>Dripster&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>I&amp;rsquo;ve made a few batches of the Dripster now and while it produces something drinkable I&amp;rsquo;m struggling to dial it in properly. The turn around between drinkable coffee means my time spent with it is quite limited. Would I recommend this, probably but you need to make sure you have the method down perfectly.&lt;/p>
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