u/BearAdmin

Hello, I recently bought a dripper that is a knock off of the V60. Not to get into the back story but I ordered this is because I live in a country and place where I can't always get exactly what I want. So anyway, not knowing much about it, I was surprised that the bottom of the dripper is just a 3 cm round hole. But my only experience with drippers is a cheap plastic thing I once had with 3 little holes in the bottom. Anyway I am wondering if this is an accurate copy of a real v60. So I made a cup of coffee and it was pretty dang good! 16 grams around a medium grind, 224 grams total water as I usually like 14-1. 50 grams at first, swirl, 30 seconds, then two more pours. I didn't time it but maybe 3 minutes total. I used a mesh re-usable filter I bought for it and it did not come with any paper filters. A nice bright clean finish for this Colombian coffee. Maybe that is my answer! So is this close to the v60 specs with it's 3 cm bottom opening? Thanks!

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Here in Colombia they don't have bottled juice in the supermarkets. People want juice they buy fruit and make it. A popular juice fruit here is called tree tomato. The small reddish fruit is citrus and sour. I only have large soda bottles to make anything with.

So I took 650 grams of the fruit, Cut each fruit in half, scooped out the pulp and tossed pulp and skin into a pot. Added water to cover and heated it to a boil and turned off the heat. Added 500 grams of sugar and dissolved it. Since I do not yet have a bucket, I mashed up the fruit with a potato masher before pouring it into my 2 liter plastic soda bottle. After temp dropped put in about a tsp of bread yeast. Fermented for 10 days. Put it in the fridge for 2 days to cold crash. Filtered it into two wine bottles and a the rest in another bottle for testing.

I am happy to say it tastes like a cheap white wine. I have bought wine that tastes worse! I do not yet have a hydrometer but it tastes like 10% and my tester glass gave me a bit of a buz.

So I made this with only some recycled soda bottles, fruit, sugar, bread yeast. Cheap happiness!

Keeping in the spirit of this should be simple because we are in prison, can I just take the yeast that settled in the bottom of my fermentation bottle and add it to my next batch? And since I am using bread yeast, I am wondering if using the yeast from my first fermentation is better than using a new batch of bread yeast? If not, I will not bother because the warden slipped me a rather large bottle of bread yeast.