Decaf Brazil MC Process

Use these recipes as starting points and adjust to suit your coffee, equipment and taste. Weigh your coffee and water, and change one variable at a time.

Espresso

Start with 18.5g of ground coffee and aim for 37g of espresso in the cup in around 25–30 seconds. Use a basket suited to that dose. Weigh the finished espresso rather than measuring its volume, as crema changes the volume. Adjust the grind to help reach your target, then refine the recipe by taste.

Pour-over filter coffee

Start with 19g of coffee and 300g of brewing water. The finished drink will weigh less because some water stays in the grounds. For a V60 or similar brewer, try a total brew time of around 3–4 minutes and adjust the grind and pouring to suit your equipment and taste.

If the cup tastes too strong, try a little more water for the same coffee dose; if it tastes too weak, try less water. For help choosing coffee or a grind, read our coffee guide or contact us.

MC decaf coffee is made by soaking the raw green coffee beans in hot water to soften them. Then, the beans are soaked in a methylene chloride solution, which extracts the caffeine. After removing the caffeine-filled solution, the beans are washed, dried, and sent to us to be roasted to create decaf coffee.