What is a Canadian Pourover?

A Canadian Pourover is a true pourover that is hands-free.

TLDR

A Canadian Pourover is a novel coffee-brewing method that seemlessly merges quality and convenience. It never overflows, never runs dry, but nevertheless it brews itself. You just add water, coffee grinds, and filter, and then start it. It’s completely mechanical — no power cables or reliance on electricity — and it makes a coffee that causes coffee-nut hipsters to shamelessly get out their selfie sticks.**

The Quality of a Pourover. Laid-back like a Canadian.

Have you noticed how complicated we are always making the pourover?

By the time you drag yourself out of bed before work there’s just no time to make a really good coffee.

You settle for a somehow-simultaneously-burnt-and-not-hot-enough drip coffee from work.

Heck, they made the gooseneck kettle because it was too tedious to pour as slowly as you need to.

(Credit: Birch Coffee Brewmasters)

Sometimes it feels like you just don’t have enough hands to make a coffee and get ready in the morning.

The solution must be to get an electric drip-coffee maker, right?

Wrong!

There’s a better way, and it’s called the Canadian Pourover

Imagine making a coffee hands free, but it tastes like your own personal hipster barrista just spent ten minutes “blooming” the grinds and “pulsing” the water until the “puck” was perfectly formed and the resulting drink tasted amazing.

If that’s too much work just imagine making a pourover, but hands free.

What is a Canadian Pourover?

The Canadian Pourover is a way of making coffee.

It’s just like a regular pourover (which means it tastes great), but it’s better, because you don’t have to stand there with a gooseneck kettle for five minutes wishing you could empty the dishwasher or something.

Canadians are cool people (we think so). So why would they settle for a typical pourover?

The Canadian Pourover is not a compromise between quality and convenience.

You don’t want a compromise. You don’t want to cut any corners. No. The Canadian Pourover is a beautiful solution to a widespread problem — the time it takes to make gourmet coffee.

Where can I get a Canadian Pourover?

Right now there are very few automated pourovers out there.

1. The $$$ Option

Chemex makes one for $350, the Ottomatic 2.0.

The thing about this Chemex is it’s basically a very expensive drip coffee maker. You have to plug it in.

Verdict? Not a Canadian Pourover ❌

2. The $$ Option

The Avery Coffee Company is coming out with a third option.

This system sounds promising, but it’s not out yet. You can sign up to their mailing list, however.

From their site:

“Our patent-pending technology never overflows, and never pours too little. You grind your beans, boil your water, add them to the Avery Coffee System, and just watch. (Or walk away and keep getting ready for work…)”

Verdict? Canadian Pourover ✅❓

3. The $ Option

Oxo makes a kind of pourover-thing too. It’s called the “Pour-Over Coffee Maker with Water Tank”.

This option doesn’t need to be plugged in, which is a huge plus, but it’s also got some issues. For one thing, it only works with very small amounts of water/coffee. Also, it could in theory overflow if it flowed too quickly.

Verdict? Also not a Canadian Pourover ❌