The Hive Brew One espresso focus brewer. Every day Espresso Information picture by Howard Bryman.

Chilly espresso manufacturing gear model Hive Brew by Torr has rolled out its smallest focus maker but, referred to as the Hive Brew One.

The compact countertop system is designed to brew micro-batches of espresso focus for cocktail packages, places of work and different lower-volume settings.

After pre-production models debuted at World of Espresso San Diego in April, finalized models with anodized aluminum assist columns in varied colours are set to go on sale for $499 in late July, the corporate instructed DCN.

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The Hive Brew One holds 16 ounces of chilly water in a high reservoir, the place customers set the drip tempo with an adjustable valve. Gravity pulls droplets into an analog metering mechanism the corporate calls an “overbalancing water doser,” loosely impressed by Japanese shishi-odoshi, the teetering bamboo fountains traditionally used to startle deer away from crops.

Every day Espresso Information picture by Howard Bryman.

The overbalancing doser tilts at about 15 milliliters, sending that quantity to a dispersal tray that showers a 1/4-pound mattress of “bloomed,” or pre-moistened, floor espresso. Hive’s advised recipe requires a grind and drip charge that lets 16 ounces of water percolate by way of the espresso in about half-hour, yielding 12 ounces of focus measuring as much as 7.5% complete dissolved solids (TDS).

The corporate says that focus can function the bottom for espresso-style drinks or be diluted 5:1 for ready-to-drink chilly brew.

“The TDS on the focus is variable depending on roast, grind measurement, water temp and brew time however that’s the identical as all different Hive gear,” Torr Industries gross sales admin and resident barista Kendra Whitney instructed Every day Espresso Information.

The Hive Brew One is supposed to ease worries about bigger batches of chilly brew spoiling throughout gradual durations, whereas additionally providing the fee financial savings, freshness and suppleness of brewing in-house. The warmth-tolerant system can be used as a single-cup scorching pourover brewer. 

Torr Industries Founder Tim Orr. Every day Espresso Information picture by Howard Bryman.

“This can be a nice brewer for a pizzeria that doesn’t promote numerous chilly brew, however they get three or 4 folks a day,” Torr Industries Founder Tim Orr instructed Every day Espresso Information. “They will actually brew chilly brew on demand and never must waste a giant batch of chilly brew. It’s additionally nice for lodge VIP rooms or company places of work. A bar that desires to make espresso martinis can brew their espresso focus each time they need.”

Orr additionally sees robust potential for home-user adoption of the Hive Brew One.

Redding, California-based Torr Industries entered the chilly brew manufacturing gear market in 2021 with a system referred to as the Brew50, which gave approach the next yr to the extra scalable, modular Hive Brew system. In 2024, Torr acquired Brew Bomb, maker of automated electrical gear for percolation-style chilly brew manufacturing, whereas Hive Brew additionally rolled out its smaller Café 3 and Café 6 fashions for higher-volume in-store focus manufacturing.

Orr approached the Hive Brew One as an engineering problem, aiming to shrink it to the dimensions of a house kitchen equipment whereas preserving the efficiency of Hive Brew’s bigger industrial methods.

Every day Espresso Information picture by Howard Bryman.

“I needed this factor to show that I may decelerate the drips over the identical sample as our regular Hive brewers to make 16 ounces of water take half-hour to drip. That’s the one technique to get that extraction degree up,” Orr mentioned. “I constructed it to show that I may get excessive extraction percentages with a small, home-style brewer.”

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