The common sizes for chemex brewers are 3 6 8 or 10 cups.
Chemex coffee brewing instructions.
There are even some apps.
This tutorial walks you through how to brew coffee in a chemex of any size.
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The amount of coffee and water varies depending on the type of coffee you are brewing and your preferred strength.
In other words for every 1 gram of coffee add 15 grams of water which converts to about 3 tablespoon of coffee for every 1 cup of water.
We recommend starting with a 1 15 coffee to water ratio when brewing with the chemex.
You ll find lots of posts online about chemex brewing that talk about measuring your coffee into proper gram weights using a scale and pouring the water slowly with a timer to ensure an exact volume of water over the ground coffee in 4 minutes to extract the perfect cup of coffee.
Step 3 pour hot water around the inside of the filter for about 5 seconds.
The resulting cup of coffee is clean and bright and easily adapted to brewing for a solo cup or brunch with friends.
Weigh out the coffee and grind to a coarseness resembling sea salt.