The Sprover (Espresso Machine Pour Over Style Coffee)

Today I'm showing off an interesting profile that I love called the Sprover. The Sprover / Spro-over is a fast flowing long ratio profile that allows you to create a filter style drink using your espresso machine. I go over the profile parameters and pull an example sprover and discuss the differences between the sprover and other types of drinks in this video. Just keep in mind the machine, roast level, grinder, and temperature you pull at. Overall a super fun way to get into pour-over-style coffee (an actual drink lol, clarity, filter coffee). If you like this style of drink you will like pour-overs.
General Sprover Parameters:
Light roast coffee
1:12+
Coarse grind size (depending on headspace, but you can go SUPER coarse like v60 even)
40-60 seconds
Fast flow rate (I like 4.5ml/s)
Drop temp if needed
Keep pressure under 1.5 bar
I urge you to experiment and play around with this profile. It's super fun to pull this drink!
Sprover + profiling guides:
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[@Spacekillguy]

2 ideas for modifications:
Adding a filter paper on the bottom.
Adding a blooming stage, just like a blooming espresso.

[@sammu]

James Hoffman brought me here. This is kind of blowing my mind. Thank you for sharing.

[@supervised]

The sprouted basket makes more sense for this style to avoid any potential mess because of the faster flow rate.

[@Rosini2222]

Loving your videos Brian. Please keep them coming. 😃

[@tommihommi1]

This is just a (very good) Café Crème, the most popular coffee style in Switzerland

[@MrMarki134]

Been looking forward to this

[@PatTuazon]

as always very informative! :) looking forward to giving this a try!

[@PatTuazon]

Does sprover have a preset recipe on decent? Cant seem to find it >.

[@davidpetraitis1229]

@@PatTuazon Did you ever find it or create your own?

[@waelbarr6573]

Love your presentation 👌 👏
Keep going ❤☕

[@vvalekk]

Thanks! Brewed a really tasty cup with the last bit of beans that wasn’t enough to make an espresso

[@AM2PMReviews]

I need to make it

[@bbenny91]

Would you say the texture and body of the sprover is similar to using a cloth filter for a pour over? Seems like the lack of a paper filter in the sprover would make a big difference in these things compared to a pour over.
I tend to like the pour over because of the clarity and clean profile I get in the cup, but compared to the 1:5 Allonges or the 1:3 turbo shot Americanos I make on the Decent, the body and clarity is super different.
Would using a larger ratio for a sprover make the difference in the clarity and clean cup I'm used to on a v60 for example?

[@danjv]

Very inteesting Brian. I would love to try this but my GCP would not be able to do it.
I can only dream to have a Decent DE1.

[@lancedulac]

I did it with de GCP, 6.5 bar Spring, and the poor man preinfusion full time.
Really tasty shot!

[@loscoiattolomaledetto500]

It makes sense that you have texture because you didn't use a paper filter at the bottom of the portfilter basket (or you didn't mention if you did) so you're probably going to have fines sized 300 microns and less in the cup.

[@davidpetraitis1229]

Did you have the decent/lunar stop the pull at 216 (18*12) grams ~ 216ml? The math does not seem to add up (4.5 ml/sec at 60 sec =270 ml or ~1:15)

[@Tristan_the_ultimate]

How would you say the sprover compares to a moka pot? I'm getting the idea that they are very similar. Percolation, usually 1:10 on moka pot (close to 1:12 of sprover), metal filtered.

[@barjee8965]

2:31 i have the ssp mp, what do you mean by adjust flow rate and ratio? should it be faster or slower flow, longer or shorter ratio? im struggling to make sprovers taste good :(

[@kwongheng]

Can we use it with filter roasted beans?

[@izri134]

Watery coffee maker. Like an americano. Watery.

[@whosgonnadotcom]

Can you give details on the mods you've done to the rocky?

[@BrianQuan]

Soon! There'll be a video about the Monolith Titan Rocky Ultra.

[@CBCEDD]

www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/nloytn/the_single_dose_low_retention_rancilio_rocky/

[@joesavag]

Did you use a filter on top of the coffee puck? If so, what type did you use?

[@vvalekk]

This is really late, but Flair 58 puck screen, by the looks of it

[@joesavag]

@@vvalekk thank you. I looked into it. I decided to not get it for my Decent espresso machine.

[@jdupuis4829]

how do you like the pharos?

[@BrianQuan]

I have a love hate relationship with it. I love the coffee but I hate the workflow.

[@9abe9]

@@BrianQuan love your vídeos! Please keep up the good work, and if you could do a review of the Pharos, there isn't a single good one on TH-cam!

[@emilethrash2670]

so the idea is to use the DE1to make a moka pot

[@midnight_teddy]

I've wondered if there is any cross-over here. If you underdosed a moka pot, would you get something similar?

[@danymeeuwissen5973]

Most expensive aeropress ever. 😉

[@krazyolie]

I reckon if you put something like an able disk over the coffee in the aeropress you could get something like this

[@scd6969]

oh man this is so sludgy.. sorry I'll pass. I like a clean up.. Aeropress is easy enough to not have to do these espresso shenanigans