Cloth, Sock & Cultural Filter
Cloth filters have been used for centuries across Latin America and Southeast Asia. A fabric bag or "sock" holds the grounds while hot water is poured or the bag is steeped. Cloth lets through more oils than paper, giving a rich, smooth body. Many of these methods are central to everyday street-side coffee culture.
What is cloth-filter coffee?
Cloth-filter coffee is brewed by pouring hot water through ground coffee held in a fabric bag or sock, such as the Costa Rican chorreador, Brazilian coador de pano or Malaysian kopi sock. Cloth lets more oils through than paper, giving a fuller, silkier body.
Entries in this chapter
- No. 162Aceh Kopi SaringKopi saring ("strained coffee") is the coffee of Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province.
- No. 090Brazilian Coador de PanoA coador de pano is a Brazilian cloth coffee filter on a ring with a handle.
- No. 096Cloth Filter Pour-overPut a reusable cotton filter, such as a CoffeeSock, in your V60, Chemex or other dripper and brew as with paper.
- No. 091ColadorA colador is a cotton or flannel coffee sock on a wire ring with a handle.
- No. 089Costa Rican ChorreadorA chorreador is a wooden stand that holds a cloth filter bag, the bolsita, over a cup or pot.
- No. 094Hong Kong Silk-stocking CoffeeHong Kong-style coffee is brewed in a cloth bag, the "silk stocking", with near-boiling water, then "pulled": poured through the bag from one kettle into another, from a height.
- No. 092Kopi SockKopi is brewed from Nanyang-roasted coffee, usually robusta roasted with sugar and margarine or butter.
- No. 161Lao Sock CoffeeGround coffee, usually strong Robusta from the Bolaven Plateau, is put in a sock-shaped cloth filter and hot water is poured through it into a short glass with sweetened condensed milk in the bottom.