How to make Good Percolator Coffee
Stove-top
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If you use a percolator, the 9 Rules also apply; the heat of the water in the stove-top percolator, however, may not be suitable for the lighter roasts and you could be better off using a Medium Dark roast instead.
- Only use freshly roasted coffee beans!!
- Grind your coffee beans just before brewing the coffee.
- Grind your coffee beans fine, as if you were using an espresso machine.
- Pack the ground coffee in the filter holder and fill the percolator with only just enough water for the number of cups of coffee you want to make.
- Put the pot on the stove on high heat and wait for the percolating to start.
- As soon as the coffee percolates, reduce the heat to a low simmer.
- When the coffee has percolated to a medium brown colour, count to 10 ( or for a big percolator to 15) and turn off the heat.
Making (or rather, boiling! ) coffee like that destroys all the coffee oils and increases the caffeine content dramatically, resulting in a highly caffeinated hot beverage with a bitter flavour and not much else...
Admittedly, boiled coffee will keep you wide awake and thus, stirred thoroughly with lots of sugar and some milk, it has been the stand-by of many watchmen and night-shifters....
