Brewing Physics: The Science of Coffee Extraction

In this episode, we meet with Dr. Arnold Mathijssen, Assistant Professor of Physics at U. Penn., and author of a paper recently published in Physics of Fluids, "Pour-over coffee: Mixing by a water jet impinging on a granular bed with avalanche dynamics". This paper just did the mainstream media rounds, so you may have heard about its findings on some other outlet. In this podcast we break it down and figure out whether physicists at U. Penn. revolutionized pour over.

The paper can be found here and is also available in the CLR library (link on instagram, @coffeelitrev).

Introduction featuring James Hoffmann.