Designed with the elegance of a fluted wine or champagne glass, and with a double-walled construction that allows you to appreciate your caffeinated beverage without burning your fingers, the Kruve EQ helps turn your quick morning fix into a multi-sensory gourmet experience.
Available in a set along with an elegant double-walled carafe you can directly brew in, Kruve EQ’s glasses help activate every single one of your sense, allowing you to appreciate the golden elixir the way it was meant to. Designed by Kruve, who are all too passionate about their cups of coffee (they even designed this coffee sifter to bring consistency to your coffee grounds) the EQ glasses come in two designs that are the inverse of each other. Each glass, however, contains an inner container/wall that is either narrow and long, or wide and short. These two inner container variations are almost akin to the ones we’d see between glasses for red and white wines. The transparent, thin borosilicate construction allows you to admire the color of the brew (the brew’s hue, if you will), while the wide and narrow inner walls control the degree of oxidation, affecting the intensity of the coffee’s taste brought about by its acidity. A wider glass brings about more acidity, working well with chocolatey/nutty roasts, while a narrower glass prevents oxidization, making it apt for already acidic light-roasts that have a more fruity/citrusy flavor.
The wide and narrow glasses are further complemented by wide and narrow rims that allow the coffee to interact with larger or smaller areas on your tongue. They’re also designed to either trap or focus the aroma of the coffee, while the glasses themselves need to be held at a more horizontal angle in order to drink your coffee, allowing your nose to pick up on all the aromas as the coffee tantalizes each sense… because drinking coffee can be an incredibly nuanced gourmet experience too!
The third most popular beverage in the world after tea and beer, coffee to some people is almost as important as the air we breathe. A dose of coffee powers you through the day like an invisible pair of batteries… and this round-up ensures you’re super-charged throughout the entire day. Starting from the most basic of processes like the roasting to the actual drinking of coffee, we’ve covered the entire cycle of the coffee brewing affair, with a surprise product right at the end. Scroll through to completely uplift your coffee game.
01. Kelvin Coffee Roaster by IA Collaborative We first start with the roasting of the coffee. Roasting your own coffee lets you consume it at its freshest, and the Kelvin was designed exactly for that. Rather than buying beans that were roasted months in advance and have lost their potency, Kelvin connects you to bean distributors who deliver green coffee beans to your home, while the device itself roasts your bean to that beautiful brown, which you can then proceed to grind and brew into the freshest cup of coffee ever!
02. Hiku Coffee Grinder by Kanso Coffee After your coffee beans are roasted to that absolutely beautiful shade of umber, it must be ground to a powder, so as to allow proper infusion. The Hiku takes precise grinding to another level with a grinder inspired by camera lenses. With markings on the side, you can calibrate the coarseness or fineness of your coffee grounds, depending on the kind of brew you want. Hiku’s patented axle and burr system are so rock solid, they don’t deviate in the slightest as they’re crushing the beans, resulting in a grind that’s of immaculate consistency.
03. Kruve Coffee Sieve by Michael Vecchiarelli Kruve takes Hiku’s mission a step further and allows you to, at a micron level, sieve your coffee. The size of your coffee ground along with its brew time decides how your brew tastes, so making sure you’ve got a consistent grind is key. The minute you have larger, coarser particles mixing with finer ones, you lose out on your brew remaining consistent… resulting in a brew that’s acidic and bitter, because some particles are under-brewed and some over-brewed. Kruve’s sieve has a two-stage process, allowing you to trap the larger particles on the top, and the smallest particles in a tray at the bottom, leaving you with a perfect, consistent grind in the middle. The sieves are so remarkably accurate, they work on a level of a few microns… and experts say that the difference in taste is noticeable. “Sieving is believing” amirite?
04. Minipresso by Wacaco Congratulations on perfecting your grind! Now it’s brewing time… The Minipresso takes care of that in a profile that’s small enough to slide into your backpack’s bottle holder. The tiny little brewer lets you brew coffee from your own grounds, and there’s even a version that lets you just use Nespresso pods. With a pressure chamber that allows you to build up a high pressure, the Minipresso allows you to pump hot water through your grounds, resulting in fresh-brewed creamy, rich coffee that you can either consume in espresso form or turn into a cup of black coffee or a latte by adding to it. The Minipresso is tiny enough to let you brew your coffee anywhere, and even comes with its own cup, so you’ve got literally nothing to worry about. Just sip away!
05. Newton Lever Espresso Maker by Hayden Maunsell Want something more rustic, manual, and quirky? Essentially the most simplified version of a french press, the Newton is effortless because it uses a Type 2 Lever to reduce the amount of effort needed to extract every single bit of goodness from your grounds. Start with a nice hot cup, place and press your coffee grounds into the lower chamber of the Newton. Screw the lower chamber into place and pour hot water into the upper chamber before pulling the lever up. Then delight in the hipster routine of pumping the water through the grounds and out the bottom into your toasty hot coffee cup. The entire process is fun, non-electric, and effortless. Depending on how hard you press down on the lever, and how coarse or fine your coffee grounds are, you should be able to perfect the art of making coffee that’s a 100% product of your work!
06. & 07. Ember’s Self Heating Mugs by Ammunition/Robert Brunner for Ember The mug that heats up your drink for you, the Ember is quite a revolutionary bit of tech. Available initially in a travel-mug format before moving to the traditional mug-shaped design, the Ember lets you set your temperature preference, and then it keeps your beverage at exactly that temperature… because coffee that’s too hot is physically undrinkable, and coffee that’s at room temperature is too disgraceful to drink, but coffee at the correct temperature feels less like a beverage and more like nature giving you a hug!
08. Cafepress by Kinto The Kinto is for those who want to cut out the coffee machine from their coffee-brewing cycle. Made for those coffee-addicts who don’t like the idea of having to wait for their mug, the Kinto does the brewing and filtering within the cup itself! Just pour coffee grounds in and top it off with the hot water. Let the brew rest for a minute and then insert the filter that sits flush against the handle when inserted. The filter acts like a press, compressing your grounds/leaves to the bottom of the cup, leaving just the aromatic flavorful liquid on the top for you to sip, directly from the mug you brewed your drink in!
09. Power Caffeinated Toothpaste by Dan Meropol Too much in a hurry to sit and brew your coffee? How about caffeinated toothpaste!? The Power Toothpaste literally gives you a rush while you brush! With the caffeine equivalent of one cup in a single tooth-brush dabful, Power claims it can give you an energy boost within just the first 10 seconds of brushing (it tastes like mint though, so your mouth feels fresh). The caffeine gets absorbed by your gums, giving you an energy boost sans the cup of coffee. You can still have that cup too, if you love the taste of a good brew! Rest assured your mornings will never be groggy again, and you may just look forward to brushing your teeth every day!
Many have tried to perfect the grinder. Kruve perfected the grind. It makes sense, that instead of refining a process, or developing new products that do the job better, sometimes one should have the foresight to create a new product that gets added to the existing process. An extra step, if you will.
That’s what Kruve does. The triangular sieve helps regulate the size of your grind, making it more consistent, so that the flavor gets extracted the way it was intended, or the way you want it. An inconsistent grind often results in particles that are of uneven sizes. This leads to undesirable flavors in your coffee, because the water remains in contact with differently sized particles for the same amount of time, meaning that larger chunks get ‘under-brewed’ while smaller particles get ‘over-brewed’. Compare it to cooking vegetables or meats of different sizes for the same amount of time. You’re going to be left with large raw pieces, and/or small over-cooked pieces. In coffee parlance, this would result in your brew tasting sour/acidic and bitter.
Kruve avoids that with its 3 layered design that traps the large chunks of the grind at the top, the perfectly sized particles at the middle, and the smallest grains at the bottom. The sieves used come with highly precise meshes, going into microns, to make sure your cup of coffee is made with the kind of precision no grinder can ever achieve. The Kruve comes with multiple sieves, so you can choose how precisely ground you want your beans. Use a coarser grind for your french-press, or for cold-brews, and a finer grind for stronger coffees like espressos. Here’s a chart to make things easier to grasp!
The simplicity of Kruve is that even though it adds an extra step to your brewing process, it works with any coffee grinder, and it absolutely uplifts the taste of your brew… but don’t go by my word. Try the Kruve for yourself… because ‘sieving is believing’!
