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# How to Make Japanese Iced Coffee (at home)
- URL: https://pulpconversations.com/how-to-make-japanese-iced-coffee/
- Published: 2025-07-01T18:32:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-26T14:29:40.000Z
- Description: Droppin' it like it's hot .... new coffee launching next week
- Author: Vinay Gupta
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1787171093388, #Import 2026-08-19 16:25

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## Tools

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9 Tools You Can Use To Make Exceptional Coffee

Non-cardinal ranking:

1. **Baratza Encore Grinder**: At $199 my friends know this as the *least expensive* grinder I’m currently willing to recommend. Its conincal-burr-grinder is capable of making any style of coffee.
2. **Kalita Wave** **185:** \~$35 in stainless steel; an absolute *steal* \- hands down the most versatile and high-quality coffee brewing device in existence! Yup, you heard it here first. Equally regarded in a Michelin-star restaurant or in your backpack as you hike The Catskills, its flat-bottom idiot-proofs your pouring somewhat, while still offering enough artistic creativity for even the most nerdy baristas.
3. **Kalita Wave filters**: $0.14 / filter - They doin’ it for the sludge.
4. **Gooseneck Electric Kettle:** $66 on Amazon. It doesn’t matter the heat source or brand but *the gooseneck* is not only attractive but also essential; to control your *pour-over*.
5. **Water:** $ 0 - but is anything really 🆓 ?
6. **Ice:** $ 0 - unless you pay for refrigeration.
7. **Vacuum container:** $31+ - This will easily double the lifespan of your whole-bean coffee. Try to avoid the purchase or storage of ground coffee. No judgement - however from a chemistry perspective - ground coffee has more surface area to oxidize. Oxidation = Bad.
8. **Scale:** \~$20 on Amazon. There are myriad options and they are all fine. This is another essential item for which you do not have to pay much at all. Don’t sleep on this tool.

It will be easy to convince yourself that you are already doing more than enuff in buying the other items - there is just no way you are gonna weigh coffee beans. Metric system!? Awww hell nah!!! However …

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The scale enables you to follow or make coffee *recipes*. Yup, you know those things that involve measurements and ratios and ingredients and instructional steps.

Unless you already have barista-level pattern recognition, I recommend you initially follow a recipe to *dial-in* your personal favorite brew. Without measuring things, how can you iterate?

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This homey Vin talking ‘bout coffee or … ?

Nah …

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1. **O.P.C.** [$50 on this website](https://drink.orangepillcoffee.com/substack?ref=pulpconversations.com)

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## The Recipe

**Ratio**: 10 parts water (in mL) / 1 part coffee (in grams)

This is my preferred ratio for pour-over. It’s on the strong side for most so you might want to start with 12:1 or 15:1

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If you don’t want to do math then Yeh mi now!

## A Coffee Poem

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedPut the kettle on  
Grind 15 G's  
  
Slide that wavy in the Kalita  
  
Grounds hittin’ paper like I’m settin’ up the stage  
  
Level out the bed, keep it smooth, no clumps,  
Keep it clean, no mistake  
  
Tare the scale.   
  
pour it slow, 150 for the taste I make.  
  
Slow with the neck, let it drip, no rush  
  
150 on the scale, watch the coffee start to blush  

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I almost forgot - this is Iced Coffee!

Go back to the beginning and drop 75 mL of ice-cubes in your glass before putting the Kalita Wave on top of it. And then - yup - you got this - brew with 75 mL of hot-water … because you know ice is also water. Or is water ice …

Enjoy.

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