At home, in the office, at cafés, in co-working spaces, in restaurants... There are innumerable places and times of day when we drink coffee, all over the planet. It is estimated that over 100 million sacks of coffee beans are consumed worldwide each year, exported mainly from Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, India and Ethiopia.
Different coffee extraction methods and tasting rituals have been developed around the world.
Travelling throughout the United States, it becomes clear that filter coffee is the most widely used brew: this is a percolation extraction, also known as a 'pour over'. Water passes through a layer of coffee, extracting its flavour, and the residues of the ground coffee is filtered through paper, fabric or a metal mesh. If you occasionally happen to taste a cup of Caffé Americano and find it too bitter, the reason is probably due to over-extraction: it needs to be brewed with a coarser grind of coffee.
Today, the electric filter coffee machine is the most widely used for this type of coffee extraction.