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Manual Coffee Brewing Guide: How to Build A Slow Bar at Home

At-home coffee bars have been around for years. But many coffee lovers are getting back to basics and building slow bars.

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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett
Jul 17, 2025
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An at-home coffee slow bar with manual brewing equipment

A New Ritual for the Ritualist

I love a good espresso drink. That’s why I order a mocha when I’m at a coffee shop. I’ll make one at home probably once a week. But I brew my daily caffeine fix from my slow bar, a manual coffee-brewing station.

Forget those rushed, bleary-eyed mornings hunched over a d…

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