Costa Rica Coffee Culture

How to Clean, Dry and Store a Cloth Coffee Filter

How to Clean, Dry and Store a Cloth Coffee Filter

A cloth coffee filter is the only part of your brewing setup that gets better with age — right up until the moment it doesn't. Cotton is porous, and every...

How to Clean, Dry and Store a Cloth Coffee Filter

A cloth coffee filter is the only part of your brewing setup that gets better with age — right up until the moment it doesn't. Cotton is porous, and every...

Chorreador Pour Over Comparison

Chorreador vs. V60, Chemex & Kalita: Why th...

If you already own a V60, a Chemex, or a Kalita Wave, you own a paper pour-over — and the Costa Rican chorreador is the cloth-filter cousin that most coffee...

Chorreador vs. V60, Chemex & Kalita: Why th...

If you already own a V60, a Chemex, or a Kalita Wave, you own a paper pour-over — and the Costa Rican chorreador is the cloth-filter cousin that most coffee...

Costa Rica Chorreador Coffee Brewer and Bananas

How to Make Banana Chip Coffee in a Chorreador ...

Costa Rica's two most famous crops have been neighbors for more than a century — coffee climbing the volcanic highlands, bananas sprawling across the Caribbean lowlands, and plenty of farms...

How to Make Banana Chip Coffee in a Chorreador ...

Costa Rica's two most famous crops have been neighbors for more than a century — coffee climbing the volcanic highlands, bananas sprawling across the Caribbean lowlands, and plenty of farms...

Watercolor illustration of a man enjoying chorreador-brewed coffee on a Costa Rica porch with a volcano in the distance."

What Does Pura Vida Actually Mean? Costa Rica's...

You'll hear it within minutes of landing in Costa Rica. The taxi driver says it when you thank him. The woman at the soda says it when she hands you...

What Does Pura Vida Actually Mean? Costa Rica's...

You'll hear it within minutes of landing in Costa Rica. The taxi driver says it when you thank him. The woman at the soda says it when she hands you...

ouring hot water in a circular motion over coffee grounds in the cotton bolsita of a wooden Costa Rica chorreador

How to Brew Coffee with a Costa Rica Chorreador

If you have a chorreador in front of you, you already own one of the simplest and most forgiving brewers ever made. A wooden stand, a cotton bolsita, and gravity...

How to Brew Coffee with a Costa Rica Chorreador

If you have a chorreador in front of you, you already own one of the simplest and most forgiving brewers ever made. A wooden stand, a cotton bolsita, and gravity...

Costa Rica's Farmers Markets Tell the Story of Coffee Better Than Any Souvenir Shop

Costa Rica's Farmers Markets Tell the Story of ...

Every weekend across Costa Rica, towns wake up around the feria del agricultor. Streets close, covered halls fill, trucks unload before sunrise, and shoppers move slowly past tables of mangoes,...

Costa Rica's Farmers Markets Tell the Story of ...

Every weekend across Costa Rica, towns wake up around the feria del agricultor. Streets close, covered halls fill, trucks unload before sunrise, and shoppers move slowly past tables of mangoes,...