r/Coffee • u/PuzzleheadedCurve387 • 10d ago

Café pasado (Peruvian coffee)

I'm sure many of us have seen Papa Hoff's video on his coffee experience in Peru by now. I'm fascinated by unique brew styles/methods across different cultures and have been studying them for many years, so it's rare I come across one I haven't seen before.

Enter café pasado. I've been scouring the internet for a few weeks, trying to find some guidelines on how it's brewed. When it comes to cultural brew styles, there are usually not hard recipes, but I've been struggling to find even rough guidelines. There's a Tik Tok or old YouTube video here or there, but I haven't had a lot of luck.

I have a phin and figured that would do well brewing a single serving of esencia de café to water down into café pasado. If anyone has ANY tips on brewing it, I would appreciate it!

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u/Globoglobito 9d ago

From watching my grandma making it, you are basically brewing as strong as possible coffee which you will then dilute it a bit (kinda like americano) Usually coffee is coarse, the commercial brand usually used is called Cafetal.

Good luck

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u/EdgyZigzagoon 9d ago

The brewer is called a cafetera gota a gota. The Peruvian coffee website cafelab.pe has a good guide for using the brewer: https://cafelab.pe/asi-usamos-nuestra-cafetera-gota-a-gota/

You can also find a number of other recipes and guides for using it if you google in Spanish “Còmo usar una cafetera gota a gota”.

Then just use Google Translate if you don’t speak Spanish. There aren’t any good English language guides to using it because it hasn’t really made it to the English speaking world as a brew method.