Freshbrew coffee for office and café machines

The right grind for a freshbrew machine

A freshbrew machine needs a medium-coarse filter grind. For each cup it passes hot water through one portion of ground coffee and a filter, and that short brewing cycle is designed around filter-sized grounds. Coffee ground too fine over-extracts, so every cup comes out bitter. With too coarse a grind the water slips through quickly and the cup comes out weak. There is no separate freshbrew grind: coffee sold ground for filter machines is what goes into the canister, and espresso grind does not.

The dose is set on the machine

How much freshbrew coffee goes into each cup is set on the machine itself, following the manual or the settings from your supplier, so there is no single figure to give here. When you switch to a different coffee, taste the first few cups carefully. If the new coffee is noticeably stronger or weaker than what you had before, change the dose first and leave the grind as it is. For the general link between grind size and flavour, see How do you set the right grind size for your coffee?

Keeping an office machine stocked

• Pack size. A machine that serves a whole team gets through coffee quickly. Our own fresh coffee comes in 1 kg bags as well as 250 g and 500 g; Gala and Landhaus come in 500 g packs.
• Subscription. Our own coffee can be ordered as a subscription, every 1 to 8 weeks, so the canister does not run empty on a Monday morning.
• Which option to choose. Our own coffee has no separate freshbrew option. Pick "Freshly ground - Filter".

Bean-to-cup at work, filter machine at home

If the machine at work grinds its own beans, it needs whole beans rather than ground coffee; those are under coffee beans. Making a jug at home in a drip machine? The full range for that is under ground filter coffee.