Chemex Coffeemaker

Chemex soon Gallery Exhibition: Yes! ?? It's beautiful, unusual, useful, nostalgic and modern, timeless ...

Chemex Guide from Trubaca we Vimeo. A guide for
Chemex coffee brewing. Shot At The Verve Roastery was Vado HD PocketCam. Dance moves courtesy of Truby.

Note: someone has me Asked Question regarding The Choice of unbleached filters used ... vs. bleached. I prefer the bleached while Jared prefers the unbleached. We both think the ones we like taste less papery. We used the unbleached in the guide cause that's what we had in the roastery at the time.

The inventor of the beautiful Chemex brewer, Peter Schlumbohm, once said, " With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee .” Now, Intelligentsia Coffee has produced a terrific video that will show morons how to make terrific coffee. 
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Chemex Coffeemaker

article repris de Jessica Hundley 18 Nov 09 carafe drip-system consisting of lab grade borosilicate beaker glass and a filtration system using laboratory filter paper. Peter J. Schlumbohm, Ph.D , had moved to New York City in the mid-1930s and was desperately searching for a great cup of coffee amid the city’s stale automats and late night diners.

Peter Schlumbohm (Check Out his Cigarette Holder) / LIFE Magazine 1949 Finally – fed up, he decided to construct his own coffeemaker with the tools on hand, in his case – laboratory tools. The result, 50 years later, is still winning design awards (it’s also part of the MOMA permanent collection

Photograph Courtesy of The Hagley Museum and Library

), and brewing an excellent cup of joe. I have had the pleasure of owning two Chemex – my first, the classic Chemex coffee maker – with the wood holding ring and leather cord – was one of my favorite breakfast fetishes, a hippie classic – and a combo of all the things I love – the clean lines of the beaker glass, the earthy wood, the worn leather cording… and the hot, delicious coffee on a foggy LA morn.

I dropped it and broke it, which is something I tend to do, so my next Chemex, although still beautiful, is of the glass handle/contemporary model, a better way to brew for a klutz like myself. Thank you Dr. Schlumbohm!

Chemex Patent 1947 Peter Schlumbohm / photo by LIFE Magazine 1949