Sometimes making coffee can feel like a crapshoot. Will your cup be good today? Who knows. But have you ever wished making coffee was a literal crapshoot? Then you are in luck, because 2007 World Barista Champion and co-founder of Londonโ€™s Square Mile Coffee Roasters James Hoffmann has created the Coffee Brewing Dice.

Made specifically for the AeroPress, the Coffee Brewing Dice are a set of five castable cubes, each associated with different variables like temperature, brew ratios, grind size and brew time, etc. On his website, Jimseven.com, Hoffmann notes that the โ€œridiculous ideaโ€ for the Coffee Brewing Dice was borne out of the seemingly endless ways to use the AeroPress. โ€œThere are just too many different ways to use it, too many potential outcomes and, for a while, this made me a little frustrated.โ€

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With the Coffee Brewing Dice, there are a total 7,776 possible recipes. So itโ€™s not like they really cut down on the number of possible brews, but at least they keep you from having to make a decision about which you choose to make.

Each set runs ยฃ12 ($16 USD) and can be purchased here. They will begin shipping out at the end of the week, just in time for holiday gift giving. And if youโ€™re thinking about waiting to get a set, Hoffmann states that he is only making one run of the dice, so once theyโ€™re gone, theyโ€™re gone.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

*top image via JimSeven.com

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