THE AEROPRESS - Six Lessons From The Champions
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- The Aeropress fell off my radar years ago. I just couldn't make a great tasting cup from it for the life of me. But with more time on my hands and the discovery of the World Aeropress Championship winning recipes, I decided to give it another go. After going through all of the recent winning recipes, I found six common lessons throughout them all, and I think they're worth sharing. These simple tips and tricks will help you brew the best Aeropress around.
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1. Increasing dose helps to avoid over-extraction
2. Grinding coarse allows for even extraction? and reduce fines
3. Consider dilution gives complete control and a cleaner cup of coffee
4. Stirring allows for a more even extraction
5. Inverted method gives a complete control over all variables
6. Paper filter is still best :)
You're right. Not sure why this guy didn't say this.
Thanks for helpful summary! Screenshot this for future reference 👍🏻 just made a better cup now
@@tasmedic hahah what do you mean? He’s literally summarizing the points from my video…
(Pensive newspaper cat) "This is supposed to be a 1 minute video"
@@SprometheusI believe he was making a joke
Thank you for this video. I just got an Aeropress for myself and find it very interesting how it can change the result when you adjust the parameters of the brew. I also learnt some things from James Hoffmans videos about that thing.
In general there are some facts that translate to all methods of coffee brewing:
1. Roast - diffrent roasts need diffrent treatment - strong roasts tend to be more intense and can get overextracted more easily than lighter roasts.
2. Grindsize & variation - finer leads to more extraction but can make it harder for the water to get through the coffee (would need more pressure on Aeropress or Espresso-Machines, which can be problematic), if the grinds vary too much in size this can lead to channeling and underextraction as the water rather goes around the coarser grinds than picking up the flavor from the finer ones.
3. Water temprature - more tempreture leads to more extraction.
4. Amount of water and coffe - more water also leads to a higher extraction thats why you should always look for the best coffe/water ratio for your specific recipe and add hot water afterwards if you want a lighter cup, otherwise you will gett all the bitter tastes out of your coffee. Of course you can also just add more coffee as you mentioned about the recipes of the champs but I'd guess that in turn also the amount of caffeine for that cup will rise accordingly.
5. Bloom/brew time - more time again leads to higher extraction.
Specific to the Aeropress:
1. Pressure - as the Aeropress isn't a espresso-maker you don't look to achieve high pressures, keep in mind that for one the coffe wont be as fine and is not tamped in the brewing chamber, so for one you won't even achieve very high pressure (and if you woul it could be very painfull or you might even break your equipment), and on the other hand it increases the chance of "byproducts" passing the filter and channeling through the coffebed.
2. Brewing method - as mentioned in the video inverted gives you more control as all of the water is in contact with the coffee for the whole brew-time. I tested this myself with otherwise the same recipe and inverted brewing increased the extraction as expected. The stirring thing was already mentioned in the vid.
Hope this is helpful to anyone, but please don't just take my word for it, I'm ceartainly not an expert. Best thing is just to try for yourself. If you got additional thoughts feel free to reply.
diluting aeropress is my favorite way too, but using 35g of coffee for my everyday cup is way to expensive.
Mistilteinn yeah it’s definitely not a small amount of coffee. I’m sure you can adjust these recipes like you would in baking.
For example just split all the amounts of coffee, water, etc in half. Maybe a bit less time on some of them. A little tweaking and you can get a solid cup I’m sure.
@@Sprometheus True true, but then I would just have a very small cup. Who wants that?
Mistilteinn haha, that’s true.
There are a few runner up recipes that I found pretty good that were around 18-20 grams. Worth a try
This is the main reason I switched to roasting my own coffee, that and my remote location from any roaster.
To invert or not to invert. Sprometheus and James Hoffman disagree and the coffee community is ripped apart.
Ripped apart? To go with what a former WBC says, who approaches brew methods scientifically, or some random TH-camr... not that hard of a choice in my book.
@@phl0w666 not a choice in my book, but the scientific approach is no a choice for lot's of people these days, unfortunately.
Ngl, Hoffman's analysis boils down to "the taste difference is so negligible that it's not worth the risk and hassle", yet I still invert just because it seems easier for me to not muck up the extraction when I do so.
James Hoffman is a 43 year old lesbian
@@phl0w666try both and make your own choice…desoite what refractometers say taste is subjective
Having watched dozens of videos on AeroPress, this one has been the single most helpful and admirably honest !
I've watched a lot of Aeropress videos and yours is still the one that has been most helpful to me.
I just received my aeropress today. Thanks a lot for these tips, I enjoyed the pace of the video and the different shots you did. Will subscribe!
Love the aero press - been using it for 2 years and nothing else. have one at home, one in work and one in my hiking sack.
My grind is about the same as I use for drip. I'm at about 16-20 grams of coffee depending on what I want, go inverted, stir vigorously while blooming, hold for 2 minutes before pressing, and then dilute with hot water. Never had any off-flavors. I cannot imagine using that volume of coffee for a single cup. But to each their own.
Great video. I love my Aeropress. I use a somewhat finer grind - just a tad finer than drip, but I recently switched to using two filters and slowing down the plunge. Almost 30 seconds just using the weight of two hands on top of one another. I’m really satisfied with the result, but am now going to test out the inverted method and a courser grind. So much fun.
Actually the most helpful guide, thanks!
These are all great points...aeropress has been my daily driver now for a few years. The recipe I use (I wanna say it was a 1st place winning recipe): 30g course coffee (inverted) ->100ml of water with 20 stirs->45sec rest-> flip and press into 120ml of hot water. Really delicous and consistent for me. You may want to check out AESIR filters...they are thicker (like a chemex) paper filters...really helps to bring clarity to the cup.
JUST THE BEST SPRO!! Love your videos brother!!! 🙏😇❤️😎
One thing that you didn't mention that is really important is how much pressure you apply at the end of the brew. Immersion methods don't over-extract unless you either agitate too much or if there's channeling while pressing out water. If you press too fast, you might get some channeling through the puck that's being created, which results in unpleasant compounds being extracted into your cup. For example in cupping you can grind as fine as you like and wait for as long as you want - if you have well roasted, good quality coffee it won't taste bitter.
In conclusion, it's really important with the Aeropress to press very very slowly and gently.
+1 to that. It needs constant, but slowly applied pressure.
For sure. Two of the three winning recipes mention that they should be pressed over the course of about 30 seconds. That definitely encourages a slow approach to the push.
But this is definitely an important aspect, and I’m sure this was one of the many reasons that caused me to get subpar cups from the Aeropress in the past.
@@Sprometheus Also important to stop pressing at the first "hiss" of escaping air, those last few ml are really gross and can poison your whole cup. Try pressing that last bit into a second cup and taste - bitter, overextracted coffee.
@@jgalt99 if inverted, you can push out all the air first when inverted (after screwing filter cap), so you will never push air to your mug/decanter.
@@jgalt99 this is a myth. Press with/without hiss and do blind tests. You won't find a discernable difference in most cases.
Big thumbs up for how you have done the research before presenting the key points. They are all convincing.
The Aeropress is an amazing piece of technology that the general public still doesn't know about. Every guest that comes to my home is amazed by it after I brew them a cup of coffee with it. It truly does rival much more expensive devices. Perhaps not quite as good, but probably 90% of the way there with far easier cleanup and maintenance.
Wonderful video. Thanks a lot!! Very helpful and pleasant to watch.
I followed all of these tips prior to seeing this, but I’m glad I came across this video. This was the exact reassurance that I needed. Thanks for the info!
Happy to be of assistance! Happy brewing!
I'm so happy you managed to rekindle your love for the Aeropress 🙃
I’ve been using the Aeropress for a few months now and everything you said I literally found out the hard way. It’s all spot on, great advice!
Great informative content. Simply a pleasure to watch! Thank you :)
I love my AP! There are so many cool things that you can do. It’s great for tea too
I haven’t delved into the tea side yet, but at some point I’m sure I will. It’s definitely a cool tool for all kinds of beverages.
How cool! How do you use it for tea?
I've considered it for tea how do you use it to make tea? I'm guessing not inverted?
I think this may be your first video that I sorta disagree with. The competition recipes are brilliant, but they seem too impractical in terms of input output ratio. For competing this is not necessarily an important factor but at home I think it is for many. I have experimented a lot with this brew method and a 17g dose is actually going to produce a close to competition cup IF you grind coarse and minimize fines either using a seive, paper towel (thanks Hoffman!) or using a top tier brew capable grinder that is known to produce few fines at coarse settings.
I think maybe you misunderstood the idea behind this video.
Even though I recommend trying the recipes, I more so wanted to present the common techniques used on the recipes and on how they impact the final cup.
I’m not saying that you can’t make a good cup with lower doses. But more so introducing these ideas to those who maybe aren’t into the Aeropress or maybe fell off of it like I did.
The Real Sprometheus fair enough.
So what's your recipe? For years I used 17g in a stovetop espresso maker. It makes a very strong, great coffee, but but with lots of sediment and some bitterness. I feel like 17g should be plenty to brew a great cup. But I can't seem to find the right AP recipe.
Well done material. Thank you !
Hi Spro. Been browsing through your excellent videos and came across this one. Interesting and very helpful.
Great video! I’m a huge AeroPress fan and it’s great to see you’ve gotten back into it.
If you can get your hands on Aesir paper filters you’d be shocked how good it can really be. It’s the same as a regular filter just thicker and better filtration. Smoother, cleaner, and notes come through better IMO.
Dat Dood thank you! And I’m definitely glad to be back in the Aeropress game!
These seems very different from what James Hoffman recommends in his aero press videos for a sort of baseline brew (11-13g per 200mL water, pretty fine grind, standard method, etc.) interested to try some of these tips and seeing how they compare
I've been using Hoffman's method and I love the results. This seems..completely backwards.
But then I generally *prefer* immersion brewed coffee and Sprometheus says right off the bat that he doesn't like it...
I use the Hoffman method, too, albeit with a few personal modifications. I agree that it is a great baseline. It's also strange to hear oils and tea-likeness as bad qualities of coffee since these are actually things that I kinda personally like, but I understand this is all ultimately about preference anyway so to each their own. It's a fascinating thing to have a diversity of options such as Hoffman's and Sprometheus' for a diversity of tastes.
Yes--James returns the AeroPress to it's immersion roots, which is why the lower ratio + steep has more attention than the press, which itself is used as filtration rather than a huge variable in the recipe. The WAC recipes are very much "fitted" to the quirks of the AeroPress but that means the recipes to get there are very unorthodox.
@@jotharn Normally heavy and light bodies are very much preference but I think Sprometheus was veering to the extremes. Immediate red flags when he said he thought of the AeroPress as an extension of espresso and had to grind fine, press _hard_. Yikes--press GENTLY! Trying to force the water out of anything unless you have the equipment to match is going to be messy.
@@kevadu It's not backwards, just a different ethos. If you go back to Hoffman's recipe video, he links to a similar WAC 2017 recipe, he's aware of it. Rather, as he states at the start, his focus isn't just best taste, but also least effort.
With that in mind, you can see why Hoffman went with what he did. Avoiding inversion and dilution makes things far simpler, you put coffee and water in and you get a finished coffee out. It's the best taste you can get while adhering to this principle. If you aren't inverting, you aren't grinding coarse or it'll leak. If you're going fine, you're lowering your ratio.
Thanks, that was very helpful
I love my aeropress... Even brew loose tea in one too... Best coffee maker ever❤
Thanks for another great and useful video. 🙏
The Aeropress ROCKS! I use it multilple times a day to brew an espresso-like espresso and tonic. With this, over extraction is not possible. I use 60 grams of coffee and and 200 grams of water. Press harrd over ice and add my fave tonic and gin if I am able. This rocks my world. I hand grind just before the press in a fairly fine grind. I use the filter papers on top of a the Fellows attachment. I re-use the filter paper about 10 times before replacing it. I use the invernted method and I stir the crap out of the bloom! Again, over-extraction is not an issue with the Aeropress. I am a big guy and I press hard. My Aeropress is bulging at the bottom. I def get at least o few bars. LOL It ROCKS for me! Your mileage may vary!
I've seen that some people like to use an orange press to bring the pressure way up on an Aeropress in order to get something akin to espresso. I'm sure you can reach 9 bars that way.
Thanks a bunch. I'm becoming a big fan of the Aeropress. I was like you and didn't really have much hope for it. I'm learning new recipes and making pretty damn good coffee.
Excellent information ... well done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💯🌱
Thank you for the tips.
Just brewed a sour cup of coffee with my aeropress. Ventured for help and glad I found this video lol
thank you for your coffee brewing insight. i do a lot of camping and always want to try different things to make a good cup of coffee. i will try some of your tips and hopefully get that perfect cup of coffee....thanks
I stumbled on your video looking for an unrelated coffee accessory for pour over. I've owned my AeroPress since 2017 (7 years as of this comment), and brew with it almost exclusively. I still enjoy pour over, French press, moka pot, cold brew, and other brewing methods, but the AeroPress is what I always just keep falling back on. So, with that said, I agree with 3 out of 6 of your findings:
1. Stir, don't bloom: Yup. Immersion is essentially one large bloom. Blooming is necessary in pour over/drip to increase extraction while the water passes through the coffee bed. Trapped CO2 can reduce extraction, leading to a very weak cup. It doesn't help that most pour over/drip brewers experience bypass, further weakening the brew. This isn't a thing with immersion. All of the water is in contact with all of the coffee all of the time.
2. Invert for control: Yup. Unless you have the Fellow Prismo or AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap (they recently released), inverted keeps your brewing variables constant, leading to more consistent cups. As a tip, before you flip, press the air out of the chamber first to get the plunger more deeply into the brewing chamber. This will help stabilize your flip.
3. Paper is still best: For the most part, I agree. But there are some fantastic metal filters with extremely small holes that reduce fines immensely, sometimes to the point of not even existing. While I prefer paper, I've experimented with metal, cloth, and PEEK filters and each provide different tasting experiences that I think are worth investigating.
Regarding increasing your dose and grinding coarser, it's important to understand that the AeroPress Championship competitors are targeting very specific notes in the coffee to "wow" the judge. These recipes are not sustainable IMO. The coarse grind is to minimize the risk of over-extraction and the large dose is to minimize astringency. It's a "safe bet", but also an expensive one. Instead, I would focus on water-to-coffee ratio first, then adjust your grind size until you find the taste you're looking for, all the rest of the variables constant. While the general rule of thumb for pour over/drip is 60 grams per liter (16.7:1), I find that you do need to tighter ratios for immersion. Something closer to 70 grams per liter (14.2:1).
Regarding dilution, if you get your ratio right, then the next major factor is steep time. Most of the extraction happens very quickly when the water hits the grinds with diminishing returns as the steep time increases. However, if you don't steep long enough, you will end up with that tea-like body. I see plenty of posts on Reddit where people are asking why their coffee is so weak, and almost always, they're steeping 1:00, or 1:30. Instead, if they went past 2:00, or even 2:30, they'll likely find a better tasting cup. Again though, if it's too strong, pull back on the steep time.
Great info thank you
My AeroPress just arrived and this is the first video I saw this morning, what luck. So many thanks to you for passing on your practical experience, it's appreciated. I'll incorporate all six recommendations today, except I am not sure of the water measurement for the stir portion of the brew, in order to get a good concentrate for dilution. Thank you for this video.
Thank you this was helpful :)
You might also need to mention about getting a decent grinder too. At least a hand grinder which doesn't produce a lot of dust.
This is a terrific, informative, and well presented video.
I purchased an Aeropress last year and tried it a couple times and I wasn’t impressed just like you. I finally decided to take it out of the cupboard and give it another try. I got the idea of the inverted method from a video on TH-cam and also to add more coffee grounds to make the shot a little stronger, then adding more hot water after the extraction process to help even out the taste/strength. What ended up was one of the best cups of coffee I’ve ever made. I’m really glad I gave the Aeropress a second chance.
What great explain and video
Just got my aeropress and I was trying different ways of brewing but wasn't happy with any of them. Thanks for the helpful tips. I'm looking forward to trying it inverted next. I'm hoping that that will finally give me the cup of coffee I've been looking for
If you're using the standard method, you really need to use the paddle that comes with it to stir or be really careful. More than once, I used a spoon and managed to drag the filter out of place, resulting in A LOT of the grounds making it into my cup. The paddle is designed to not reach the the filter. That was the first and main reason I switched to the inverted method. Of course, as you mentioned, there's a lot more control with the inverted method as well
I have neeeeever had sediment issues with aeropress. I’ve experimented with different grind sizes so I’m wondering how that happened. Anyone?
Its been a near constant experience with the Aeropress and fine grinds for me.
Don’t press hard, only the weight of an arm or two is needed. Pressing through the air rush too fast can push through grounds.
Never had any sediment over 8 years, with coarse or espresso fine grind, either. I find espresso grind works best for my palate. Another advantage of the paper filter is it takes care of the coffee oils that can raise your LDL cholesterol levels, espresso has them, paper Aeropress does not.
I've had it before when the paper isn't seated properly or when pressing too firm which I theorize also knocks the paper out of place.
Yes very strange this guy is mentioning sediment, if it has a paper filter, never had sediment and I'm just a newbie to the aero press
For standard brewing menthod.. what you can do to prevent the coffee dripping to the cup is inserting the plunger on top of the aeropress just a little bit to create a vacuum 👌
I just got the aeropress and I have yet to try this. One video recommends inserting at an angle and then pulling up on the plunger slightly.
Got my Aeropress today, following these tips I made what was the best cup of coffee I have tasted for a long time. Great video.
Glad to hear that! Cheers!
Great video as always.
Great video, I just pulled my aero press off the shelf after several years. I need needed to buy a replacement gasket which I did. I brewed an awesome cup and then enjoyed your video. Thanks for the tips.
Just got my Aeropress. Thank you for the tips before I make my first cup
Joe JoeLesh glad I could help! Happy brewing!
I'm finding James Hoffmann's Aeropress recipe for milk-based drinks works very well indeed. (18g slightly coarser than espresso grind, 90mL boiling water, 90 seconds steep, gentle press)
feels like james recipe always spot on for me personally (slight change based on beans, but thats a given)
even after trying some recipe out there, i always comeback to his recipe, especially the one where you pour it into ice
I’m just going to thank you now. My experience with the AeroPress has been the same. Good coffee but sometimes a little light, I can already tell these steps will help a ton of just makes sense 👍
My favourite everyday morning cup o joe.
Inverted, 94c water
15g Coffee, "standard" brew grind, slightly finer for medium roasts, slightly coarser for light or very light roasts.
wet grounds, stir until homogenous and let sit 30s
Briskly fill to the very top, brew for 1min
Flip and press for 20-30s.
Do not dilute.
Pour between two milkjugs ~10 times to cool down for instant gratification.
I've actually come to prefer metal filters, comes across cleaner for me than paper filters with little to no sediment.
I use a very similar recipe but with 18g coffee - 90 deg water, a slight fine - medium grind. I absolutely love the fact that you have more control over the variables with the inverted method. You even get slight "crema" for an espresso-like drink. A good recipe for my taste. :)
Thnaks for this effort.
Helpful thanks
My best cup yet from Aeropress involves kind of the opposite: double the filter; 18-20 g dose of espresso-grade ground beans; bloom it w/enough water to saturate; don't invert, leaving coffee bed sort of intact; brief paddle sweep; 2 minute brew and press
Interesting video and I'm glad that you see the "light" now. The last three years have had similar recipes, though. I wonder what you think about going farther back? Really liked the second place 2014. I also find that these coarse, high dose recipes work better with light coffees. Have you had Aesir paper filters? Those are the best filters, of any material, that I've tried.
Adam Lippold thanks for watching and commenting.
I definitely plan on working my way back through the recipes over time. I had an idea for another video while producing this one, but it’s more of a longer term idea. But will definitely give it a shot.
I haven’t tried the Aesir paper filters, but have heard good things. I may have to snag a pack and see what’s up.
Thx for the tips babe!
Thanks for making up this video, it really helped me out improve on my Aeropress technique, I've been doing killer cups since then.
You’re very welcome, thanks for letting me know it’s been helpful!
Nice summary!
Great video new to the aeropress going to give this a try I love a stronger cup
Thank you, useful
Thanks ! Great video !
I like the glass you use, what is it ?
Thank you! Not sure the name, but they are Bodum double walled glasses.
I use a modified version of Tim Wendelboe’s recipe . Inverted method, coarser grind and longer brewing time. 14g for 200ml, 2:30 total time (30sec slow pushing), double filter paper for a cleaner cup. It creates a V60-like coffee just with an extra punch.
Coarser grind will also taste better at home unless you have an EK-43 or similarly super expensive commercial grinders at home.
How coarse exactly? Around french press? A bit finer/coarser?
Wow! I have always thought diluting was wrong but it just taste good. This made it officially ok. Thanks!!!
Nice video too!
Angela Buenafe I never thought it was wrong really, just thought it would create a more watery cup. Figured it should be all good in one go. But it definitely kicks the game up a notch!
Thanks for watching!
It is also recommended by the founder.
@@jjan7239 more like the founder insists it's the only way to get good coffee out of the AP.
Haven’t been able to do this in awhile and just got back. I forgot how good coffee can be in this machine. I specifically have a temperature control electric kettle so that I don’t burn the coffee grounds. What a great cup it makes. That and all the methods here DO make a huge difference. Thanks.
what grind setting on the niche zero have you used with the aeropress? I haven't used mine in years since moving to espresso as well.
A great deal of this is in the instructions.
Really good synopsis, I to have fallen out of love with my Aeropress due to the exact reasons you give, must dig it out and give it a whirl. Oddly a lot of good coffee companies still use the old brew recipes in their online brew sections. Methinks they were never really using the Aeropress.
Great, great tips. I've been looking at a few brands to purchase, after this video, I'm going with the AP.
Thank you my friend! Enjoy the Aeropress!
Very interesting, I'm actually getting my first AeroPress in the post tomorrow so I've been researching using it for a couple of days, and the tip about using the recipes from the world champs is a game changer, just been looking through them and now I'm excited to start using them, I was slightly worried about the amount of coffee an AeroPress produces so seeing them all diluting it to produce a good sized cup of coffee is brilliant.
Very helpful, thank you - can't see a link to the recipes mentioned?
Great video!!! Love my aeropress ☕️👍🏽
Competing at the 2019 worlds was definitely a challenge, we only had 2 x 250 bags given to us back stage, wasn’t sent out to us a week before like the National heats! 3 hours to dial in. Everyone one trying each other’s brews backstage and it was all pretty close!
Trying to get a new coffee dialed in can be a HUGE PITA....grind size and water temp lead to MANY variables.
And this 500 grams was for training ánd competition! Remember the chaos? 😁
Using two paper filters for a cleaner cup was a game changer for me
Isn’t dilution how the inventor intended it to be used? That’s my understanding.
Chris Hunter it might be, to be honest I haven’t read much about him other than what I’ve seen in passing. And what I did see that stuff it was during the time where the Aeropress wasn’t really front of mind. But I’ll look up this for sure.
The Real Sprometheus great channel by the way. I really like your videos and appreciate all the effort you put in to camera work.
I saw a video where the inventor recommended using an espresso grind and having a lower water temp (around 80 - 85 C). This works well for me because I don't have to change grind settings after making an espresso. The cup this method produces is full bodied, but still reasonably clean. There are some oils getting thru, but no solids. Just the way I like it. Best of all, it only needs 11g coffee for 200 ml water.
Definitely. Adler produces first an “espresso strength” cup then dilutes it. This is his standard way of brewing.
Thanks for these tips distilled from your research of winning methods. Very informative and to-the-point. I had been mulling an Aeropress purchase off and on for years and finally pulled the trigger. I've been a daily pour over guy for last three or four years - to the point where I havent fired up the espresso machine since I can't remember when. So I had a bit of an "ah ha" moment when you mentioned stirring the pour over during bloom. I had not considered that, though i've always felt my method doesnt produce any dry patches. Still, i might even improve that too. I look forward to checking out your other vids. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us.
Coming from a Chemex and V60 I'm trying my first aeropress. I've seen somewhere that I should try using the same grind size as my V60. What would you recommend? I'm used to gring a little medium coarser on Chemex and medium fine on V60. Comment here seem to either go expresso style or very Corse style. I havr a manual timemore nano. So I can't get grind small enought for expresso. What would you advice?
Dude, easily the most helpful video I've found so far on the AeroPress, almost a necessity for anyone new to it...
Appreciate it
Cheers
Thank you my friend, I appreciate that and I’m happy to know people are finding it helpful!
Great share! High End!!
When I first started to make good aeropress coffee (befor I got into espresso), I did every point mentioned in the video. I just wish that I'd had this video when I first got it. I still have have an aeropress coffee made this way every now and then when I want a quick coffee.
OutOfNamesToChoose that’s great you we’re doing these things. I had many cups of bad coffee from my Aeropress until I started incorporating these lessons. Really a total 180 in the quality of the cup I get now.
Thanks for watching and the kind words!
Great video! Lots of great suggestions to improve the cup you can get out of an aeropress. It is perfect for limited space, or super tight budgets. For me it’s a travel brewer. It can make a good cup. Cups close to many other methods, but why get close when I have the thing that gets me all the way there.
-Joe
Thanks brother! I always used it as a travel brewer when I was going somewhere I couldn’t go out and get good coffee, but this has definitely changed that view. These recipes really brought new life to the Aeropress for me.
I found that using a metal chopstick works very well for stirring. I use the inverted method and it's been pretty good. I only use it sparingly, since it's for those moments when I just need a quick cuppa.
Interesting video, will have to try out your advice. Do you know how the Niche grinder compares to the Comandante grinder for filter coffee?
Stanislaw Cronberg thank you, would be curious to hear your results after trying these out.
I haven’t used the Commandante, so not really sure how it corresponds grind size wise. But they are both conical so I’m sure they are pretty similar in terms of what they can produce. I used a grind size to what I would normally use for a pour over and got pretty good results.
Great video. Can I make a few aeropress coffee's at the same time then heat up a portion later on that day?
(I suppose I can ,but will it affect the taste?)
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Love the Aeropress!
Derby Coffee Roasters I do now! Haha
I don’t own Aeropress, want one but just curios is it going to be much different from concentrated drip ie 10:1 ratio drip?
I use the Fellows with a paper filter. Have my AP since 2006. Working with the 3rd silicon plunger. Learned the dilution trick years ago. Also the filters can be rinsed and reused several times. For all the years I have had mine and well into 3K cups of coffee I still like to play.
Even with cheap off shelf pre-ground you can make a better cup than the mermaid.
Superb.
Great video. Would love to see a tasting comparo between one of these recipes and the water-first Clever technique with and without a partial percolation rinse at the end.
i just got an aeropress and was thinking i was doing something wrong.
thank you for compiling all this information :)
my future morning coffee cups thank you!
Grinding coarser really tastes better (at least for me). I was using medium-fine grinds before with a minute immersion and 25 secs press with a complex local bean and I could not achieve the proper taste notes described. I got it right when I added 30 secs bloom (yea, against what you preach) with a three full stir with the paddle after, it tasted as described by the roaster. A concentrated brew extracts the intense flavors while dilution spreads these flavors nicely in the cup. I like your ideas and will consider these in crafting/upgrading my own recipe.
Great video! I dislike inversion method so i use a Fellow Prismo. I use the Prismo like a normal Aeropress cap plus adding a paper filter as well. To be clear, I am ignoring the Prismo instructions & their concept of "espresso like" coffee; but the Prismo gives you the control you were missing. This means none of that initial dripping - which i always hated.
I scored an XL with travel bag for 2 bucks. I'm excited to venter into the aeropress world of coffee
THank you
Hey bro, nice video. Nerd cred for giving a popular brewing method another try
What cup or decanter are you using? I use a hario v60 decanter, but it barely fits and is one slightly off-balance nugent away from making a huge mess and or breaking another decanter.
This video saved my AP from being listed on Ebay...lol. Thank you for the summary!! I never made a satisfying cup of coffee with it ...admittedly even after giving it one more try it still was not perfect but good enough for me to try it again tomorrow morning or get the same kind of coffee in those winning recipes...I’m still buzzing from my cup this morning too strong even with adjustments :-)