Before we had a melodrip kickstarter campaign, we had a community of testers.  In fact, we owe a lot to all of the curious coffee lovers who were just curious to try something new! 

Their excitement, enthusiasm, and encouragement fueled our confidence to try crowdfunding.  And with their support, our project was finally brought to life!  Here are impressions from a handful of our beta testers!

Eka Suryadi Chandra/ @ekasuryadichandra

Title:Just a home brewer from Indonesia
Location:Indonesia
Impressions:“The first tool that able to help brewing coffee cleaner and shows all the taste notes. With Melodrip, we can explore more on many brewing variables. Before melodrip, brewing with no agitation is not possible. But now we can control the agitation variables.”

Jewel Evans/ @jewelstar87

Title:Barista, Home-Brewer
Location:Quills Coffee, Louisville KY

Impressions:“I first heard about the melodrip earlier this year through a friend I follow on Instagram. I inquired about it, and a few weeks later, Ray sent a melodrip to Quills Coffee for us to use and try. I was able to take it home with me, and have since been using it in my brews at home. Ray was SO helpful as I was learning and practicing using the melodrip. My favorite experience came when he passed along some brew guides using the melodrip with an Aeropress. I was so surprised at how clean, bright, and sweet using the melodrip made the finished cup. It is an easy tool that has a profound effect on the clarity of coffees brewed, I recommend the melodrip to anyone who is seeking for greater clarity, sweetness and balance in their brews.”

Matt Leberman/ @mleberman

Title:3 time Brewers Cup competitor, Coffee Educator for Order & Chaos Coffee
Location:Baltimore, MD
Impressions:“First impressions were build quality. It has the feel of a precision dental tool, not some cheap plastic. I was very impressed by the attention to detail. This is the first time in manual coffee brewing, where you can minimize agitation. By doing this, you can keep the coffee bed in tact, and incorporate fresh brew water that'll sit on top. This allows the brew bed to act as a secondary filtration, and almost eliminate chances of channeling. The result is a much cleaner, crisper cup of coffee. Its much easier to replicate a brew. Its easier to manipulate variables. Where proof is in the pudding, the Melodrip was a big part of my Brewers Cup preliminary presentation, allowing me to advance onto semi finals.”

Sebastian Dahlin Lundbergh/ @sebastianscoffee

Title:Home brewer
Location:malmö, sweden
Impressions: “I had never before experimented with the level of agitation in my coffee, so the melodrip opened a whole new field for me. It has been so much fun and very interesting to see how different coffees are affected by being brewed using this tool. I have made it a thing to brew every coffee that passes through my kitchen using the melodrip at least once. I brew mostly light roasts and with the melodrip I get access to flavors that otherwise would have passed without making themselves known.”

Elika Liftee/ @elikaliftee

Title:Assistant Trainer, Competitor
Location:Onyx Coffee Lab, Springdale, AR
Impressions:“The melodrip is a device that changed the way I brew, and changed my expectations of manual brewed coffee. I've wanted some sort of a shower head for attachment to control flow rate, but the theories provided by Ray with the Melo were things I didn't expect. Clean brews, and repeatable results are music to my ears as a trainer and competitor. I'm excited to use the Melo and keep exploring all of the avenues that we can take it.”

Mike Flores/ @mikflores

Title:Home Brewer, Lifestyle Photographer
Location:Salt Lake City, Utah
Impressions:“Melodrip is not just a tool, it's a method. Being able to control agitation, and dial in that variable, you can get some crazy clean and nuanced cups. This brew method is blowing my mind, and makes me question assumptions we have when brewing coffee.”

Justin Goodhart/ @goodhartcoffee

Title:National Brewers Cup Finalist
Location:Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters/Goodhart Coffee, Colorado
Impressions:“I don’t think many people realize how easy it can be to overextract and choke a brew. Melodrip is the tool specialty coffee has needed for a long time. Melodrip will give you more control and precision in your brewing than you’ve probably ever had”