Who is this kit for?
This kit solves a different problem for three different customers.
The curious brewer
A turnkey setup for brewing exceptional coffees, especially delicate ones like washed Panama Geisha, with the tools they deserve.
The gift buyer
A complete coffee gift in one thoughtful, giftable bundle: world-class coffee, a brewer, filters, and water minerals.
The deep-in enthusiast
A compelling value on a stellar washed Panama Geisha plus brewing accessories you already know are fantastic: CAFEC Flower, Abaca filters, and Lotus minerals.
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The Brewer
The CAFEC Flower Dripper in Tritan is one of our favorites — versatile, clean, and consistent. Paired with Abaca filters, it offers a fast but controlled flow that produces cups with sweetness, clarity, brightness, and good texture. It’s what we use most when tasting Five Petal coffees. The 1 Cup size is especially useful for smaller doses of precious coffees; we love it for 15g brews.
The Filters
We’ve tested many filters, and CAFEC Abaca filters are our overall winners — a reliable balance of flow, clarity, and ease of use, and a natural match for the Flower Dripper.
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The Water
The Lotus Coffee Water Drops kit is a simple, flexible way to mineralize distilled or deionized water. Water has a major effect on sweetness, acidity, clarity, and finish, especially with delicate coffees.
A simple starting recipe:
10 drops of each Lotus mineral into 1 gallon of distilled or deionized water.
Use that as a starting point, then experiment to taste.
The Coffee
Janson Coffee Farm // Lot 980 Green Tip Geisha Washed
If you have not tried a very light washed Panama Geisha before, this is a beautiful place to start. Brewed with a good grinder and the components in this kit, Janson Lot 980 can show a refined, tea-like structure with impressions of white tea, citrus, and lemon custard.
Elegant, clean, and expressive.
Suggested starting recipe
- Use Lotus-mineralized water and heat to 91°C in a gooseneck kettle.
- Grind 15g of Janson at a setting coarse enough to land around 2:00–2:40 total brew time. Your grinder, burrs, and taste preferences will affect the ideal setting, so use time only as a starting guide.
- Rinse the Abaca filter thoroughly under running water and seat it firmly against the dripper walls. Make sure it’s centered.
- Add 15g coffee and gently shake to level the bed.
- Bloom with a gentle 50g pour, taking about 10 seconds to evenly wet all the coffee. Wait 40–90 seconds, depending on coffee freshness.
- Pour at a moderate flow rate up to 225–250g total water, focused near the center in small concentric circles. This pour should take about 30–40 seconds.
- Gently swirl and let drain.
- Taste it hot, but let most of the cup cool — coffees like this often become more expressive as the temperature drops.
