Steeped

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For when a kettle and hot water are all you have. Our single-serve brew bags come in two sizes: 6 bags with three coffees, two of each, or 15 bags with three coffees, five of each. This edition features Cassis, The Alchemist and Milky Cake. We roast the coffee in Amsterdam, then Steeped grinds, portions and nitrogen seals each bag to keep the coffee fresh until you open it. Pour, dunk, steep. That’s it.


"How it works" Colombia, Kenya, Rwanda
Harvest 2026
Tasting notes Various
Process Mixed
Weight 6 x 14g, 15 x 14g
Roast Profile Filter

Quantity

From DAK to STEEPED

We started using Steeped for the times when bringing a grinder, scales and brewing equipment just wasn’t practical. Travel days, trade shows, hotel rooms, anywhere with a kettle but not much else. We provide the coffee, roasted here in Amsterdam, and Steeped turns it into individual 15g brew bags. The coffee is ground, portioned into a full-immersion filter and nitrogen sealed to protect it from oxygen until you tear the pack open. It’s not instant coffee. It’s the same coffees we roast at DAK, just already ground and packed into a format you can brew pretty much anywhere.

How it works

Each bag contains 15g of ground coffee inside a full-immersion filter. Instead of water passing through the coffee as it would with a dripper, the bag sits directly in the water and brews by immersion, a little like tea. No grinder, scales, dripper or machine needed.

What’s inside

Three DAK coffees, with the selection changing from edition to edition. This one contains Cassis, The Alchemist and Milky Cake, giving you three quite different profiles in the same box. Cassis is bright and juicy, with red currant, rhubarb and pomegranate. The Alchemist is richer, with tropical fruit and cacao. Milky Cake brings cardamom, pistachio, vanilla cake and its familiar creamy sweetness.

How to brew

Put one bag in your cup and slowly pour around 240ml of hot water over it. Dunk the bag for 15 to 30 seconds, then leave it to steep for at least five minutes. Leave it longer if you want a stronger cup. Remove the bag and you’re done.

Freshness

Each 15g dose is ground and packed by Steeped, then nitrogen sealed to limit its exposure to oxygen until you open it. It means we can pack our coffees in a single-serve format without needing a grinder or any brewing equipment when it’s time to make one.

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THE DAK BREW GUIDE

These are the recipes we use every day at the roastery and showroom. We keep them simple on purpose: water, ratio, grind size. The coffee does most of the work when the basics are right. Every setup is different, so treat these as a starting point. Adjust based on what you're tasting and what your equipment gives you.

General

For most grinders and most bars. Balanced, works black and with milk.

• Ratio: 1:2.5
• Dose: 18 g
• Yield: 45 g
• Brew time: 25 seconds
• Pressure: 9 bars
• Temperature: 93°C

For our roast level 1:2.5 ratio fully extracts, balances and opens the cup without thinning it compared to the classic 1:2.

Modern

Longer ratio, lower pressure, shorter contact. More clarity and acidity.

• Ratio: 1:3
• Dose: 18 g
• Yield: 54 g
• Brew time: 20 seconds
• Pressure: 6 bars
• Temperature: 93°C

A note on equipment: 1:3 relies on a flat burr set capable of a very even grind.
On an E65, E80 or Mythos this ratio often tastes watery. If that happens, pull back to 1:2.5.

Advanced (pressure profiled)
For machines with flow or pressure control. This is the showroom recipe.

• Ratio: 1:3
• Dose: 18 g
• Yield: 54 g
• Total brew time: 30 seconds to 1:00 total
• Pre-infusion at 2 bars (about 1 to 2 g/sec flow rate) until 1g in the cup, 15 to 30 seconds
• Main extraction: 6 bars until 18g yield. (about 5 to 6 g/sec flow rate)
• Post-infusion: 2 bars (about 1 to 2 g/sec flow rate) until 54g final yield
• Temperature 93°C

• Ratio: 1:15
• Dose: 16.5 g
• Water: 250 g
• Brew time: 2:00 minutes to 2:30 minutes
• Temperature: 92°C

Poring structure

Start your timer with the first pour. The weights below are the total water added.

• 0:00 pour to 50g (8 g/sec, medium)
• 0:30 pour to 120g (8 g/sec, medium)
• 1:00 pour to 190g (3 g/sec, very low)
• 1:30 pour to 250g (3 g/sec, very low)

Pouring very slowly keeps the bed open. Let the water draw down to finish the brew.

Water is 98% of your cup, so it changes everything. Mineral content varies between cities, neighbourhoods, and even seasons depending on which reservoir is supplying the tap. If your water is hard (above 150ppm), switch to a soft bottled water around 50ppm. Too soft is always better than too hard. The difference in the cup is immediate.

Ethiopian coffees
Ethiopian beans are more brittle and produce more fines when grinding. Too much agitation during brewing pushes those fines into the filter and slows everything down. Keep agitation low. If the cup still tastes over-extracted or the drawdown stalls, grind coarser and extend the ratio or brew time slightly to compensate.

The look of a shot
Naked portafilters show you what’s happening, but what you see has no reliable connection to what you’ll taste. A messy-looking shot can taste clean, and a photogenic one can taste flat. Taste every shot, even the ones outside your parameters, and adjust from there.

Crema
Crema is gas escaping coffee under pressure. It carries very few desirable flavour compounds and can actually taste harsh. Removing it will almost always improve the cup. With light roast espresso especially, ignore the crema and focus on what’s in the liquid.

Freezing coffee
Freezing keeps coffee at peak flavour, but roasted coffee can’t be thawed and refrozen without losing quality. Vacuum-seal in single doses before freezing. When you’re ready to brew, grind it frozen. Don’t let it thaw first. Every grinder handles frozen beans without issue, and the results are often better. One dose out, the rest stays sealed.

Long ratio (for harder extraction)
For when extraction is more difficult: hard or heavily filtered water, a grinder past its best, or a dense lot.

1:18 ratio. 14g in, 250g out. 2:30 to 3:00. 97°C.
• 0:00 pour to 45g
• 0:30 pour to 90g
• 1:00 pour to 250g

1:20 ratio. 12.5g in, 250g out. 2:15 to 2:45. 97°C.
• 0:00 pour to 40g
• 0:30 pour to 80g
• 1:00 pour to 250g

Adjusting

• If the cup tastes thin, dry or harsh: raise the dose. Move from 15g to 16 or 16.5g at the same 250g yield.
• If espresso tastes watery at 1:3: shorten to 1:2.5 before touching the grind.
• Water: very low or very high TDS shifts everything. Check the water before changing the recipe. If the water cannot be changed, go to the long ratio recipes.