Vocabulary

Brewers

One entry per brewing method, not per product: a V60 is a V60, whatever its material. Names are matched ignoring case. Any other name is accepted, and its actions are not checked.

Brewer	Type	Starting state
@V60	Dripper
@Kalita	Dripper
@Melitta	Dripper
@Chemex	Dripper
@Origami	Dripper
@UFO	Dripper
@Phin	Dripper
@Switch	Valve	Open
@Clever	Valve	Closed: it opens when set on the cup
@Pulsar	Valve	Open
@AeroPress	AeroPress	Upright
@FrenchPress	Press
@Siphon	Siphon

Actions

Actions are open: any /name is accepted. These are the core ones, checked against the brewer’s type. A name one or two letters away from one of them gets a warning.

Action	Gesture	Brewers
/swirl	Swirl the brewer	All
/stir	Stir with a spoon	All
/skim	Remove the foam and the fines floating on top	All
/wait	Wait: for a duration (/wait ~45s), or until it is ready	All
/rinse	Rinse the filter	All
/level-bed	Level the coffee bed	All
/add-coffee	Put the ground coffee in, when it does not go in first	All
/press	Press the plunger; also written /plunge	AeroPress, Press
/invert	Turn the AeroPress upside down, for an inverted recipe	AeroPress
/flip	Turn the inverted AeroPress back onto the cup	AeroPress
/open	Open the valve	Valve
/close	Close the valve	Valve
/drawdown	Let the water drain through	Dripper, Valve

Grind sizes

From finest to coarsest: extra-fine, fine, medium-fine, medium, medium-coarse, coarse, extra-coarse.

Pour qualifiers

Qualifier	Meaning
bloom	The pour that wets the coffee and lets it degas
spiral	Pour in circles
center	Pour in the center
pulse	Pour in several short pulses

spiral, center and pulse are techniques: a pour has at most one.

Units

Measure	Units
Dose	g, oz (ounce of weight)
Water	g, ml, oz, floz (fluid ounce, a volume)
Temperature	°C, °F
Duration	~15s, ~4m, ~3:30
Time	0:45, 12:00: minutes, then two digits of seconds under 60