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Filter Coffee History
Drip brewing (AKA: filtered coffee, pour-over) is a into the bottom chamber. Among other French innovations,
method which involves pouring water over roasted, grounded Count Rumford, a scarce American scientist residing in Paris,
coffee in a filter, creating the beverage called coffee. Water seeps established a French Drip Pot with an insulating water covering
through the ground coffee, releasing gases, absorbing its oils and to keep the coffee hot. Also, the first metal filter was developed
essences, under gravity, then passes through the bottom of the and patented by French inventor. Let’s see how the filter methods
filter. made it through today.

Different Filter Methods
Paper filter

Jean-Baptiste de Belloy
de Morangles (1709-
1808) - Painting from
Laurent Dabos 1806

In 1710, France, the brew process was introduced.
This involved submersing the ground coffee, usually enclosed
in a linen bag, in hot water and letting it infuse till the desired
strength brew was reached. From France in the late 18th century.
With the help from Jean Baptiste de Belloy, the Archbishop of
Paris, the idea that coffee should not be boiled progressed ac-
ceptance. The first contemporary method for making coffee
using a coffee filter is more than 125 years old, and its design Paper coffee filters were invented in Germany by Melitta Bentz in
had changed just a little. 1908.
As a housewife who loves coffee, Bentz discovered that
percolators were prone to over-extracting the coffee, resulting in
bitter beverage. Moreover, Espresso machines at that time tended
to leave grounds in the drink, and linen bag filters were so tiring
to clean. She used blotting paper from her son’s school exercise
book and a brass pot punctured using a nail. There, she created
the first ever paper filter dripper that creates ground-free, less
bitter coffee. This idea met with general enthusiasm, she decided
to set up a business. The Imperial Patent Office granted her a
patent on the 20th June 1908.
After the help of her closest employees who is her
DeBelloy or DuBel- husband and her son. By 1928 the demand for their products
loy coffeemaker
was so excessive that more than eighty workers had to work in
a double-shift system. By 1929, more than 100,000 filters had
been produced.
During 1780 in France, there was a two-level pot With the success from Malita, many other brands have
holding coffee in a cloth sock in an upper compartment into initiated. Some of the world-wide well-known ones are such as
which water was poured, to drain through holes in the bottom the V60 from Hario, the Kalita Wave, the Chemex, or the Clever
of the compartment into the coffee pot below. Around the same drippers. The paper filter dripper has a huge range of different
time, a French inventor developed the "pumping percolator", in designs with its unique hole sizes and number. All these creates
which boiling water in a bottom chamber forces itself up a tube its own unique advantages and shortcomings that suits every-
and then trickles (percolates) through the ground coffee back one’s pour-over techniques and taste profiles.
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