- This is the Aeropress Go,
an even more portable way
to take fresh coffee with you no matter
where your adventure takes you.
Let's check it out.
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Hey guys, it's Ben from Snowys today
with the AeroPress Go
portable coffee maker.
If you thought the
original was a great way
to make coffee no matter
where your adventure
or travels take you, this
is an even more portable
and compact way of doing it.
Same solid coffee, same
method of making it.
It's just a more compact unit.
This is how it comes when you buy it.
Inside the box, you get
the coffee maker itself
which comes in a little cup here.
I'll show you what's inside there shortly.
You get an instruction
manual, how to make coffee.
And you also get a pack
of 350 paper filters.
Now these will probably
last you about a year.
You can actually reuse
the same filter over
and over and over again.
I think I've used some,
like 10 times over and over.
They can just be rinsed off and reused.
Now the unit itself
weighs about 320 grammes,
measures about 30 centimetres in height
and about 9 centimetres across
this way and across this way.
So it's nice and compact
and everything is inside
there except for the coffee.
And there is a little paper
filter holder in there
so you can put a few
in there for your trip.
So inside this unit here,
if you take this off,
this is sort of a rubbery
silicone sort of lid
on top of there.
And inside there you get this little,
this sort of flat disc here.
This is actually used
for the paper filters.
So you can stack, I don't know how many,
probably 8, 10 filters inside there.
And that stores just
inside the unit there.
It fits just on top.
Furthermore, if we tip
this up we get the cup here
which you can put a lid on I suppose,
if you wanted to keep the drink cold
while it's sitting aside there.
And then you get the unit itself here,
the coffee maker.
Inside the top here, a
couple of accessories,
little scoop for the coffee.
And this is a little folding
stirrer that you can use
to get down inside the unit,
once you've got the coffee in there
to stir it around to agitate the coffee.
And then this is the
actual coffee maker itself.
So you've got the little
filter bit on the bottom there.
The filter sits inside
there, up against the bottom
and then this comes apart in two pieces.
Now the main difference
you notice between this one
and the original AeroPress is
the numbers on the side go up
to three here, whereas the
original goes up to four.
So it's a total unit.
So you don't make as much coffee in here.
Not so much of an issue
if you're only making a shot
of coffee down to number one.
But if you like to fill
your cup right up as I do,
you won't get quite as
much coffee in there
with this small unit.
But the benefits are,
it's nice and compact.
Now this is all made in the USA
and its made from all BPA-free materials.
This is all BPA-free plastic,
all of these components here.
There's a couple of silicone components,
the lid here is sort of a flexy silicone.
And also this plunger
which is replaceable.
You can remove that and buy replacements,
is also made of silicone.
Provided you actually
store the AeroPress Go,
completely push it right in
so that the actual plunger
comes out passed the edge here
this plunger is stored uncompressed
and will always have a nice
tight seal around the edge here.
If you store it halfway up
there, it's stored, compressed
and you don't get quite
the same compression.
Now, making a coffee.
The first thing we need to do
is grab our little strainer
that goes on the bottom here.
Now, I'm not gonna open
this pack of filters.
I've got one in my little coffee bag here.
The filter goes in there like that.
Now, AeroPress say you can
wet that first if you like.
Not necessary, I don't do it.
It's the same effect either way.
We then twist that on the bottom there,
that just locks into place.
So we can now see that
we've got our filter
on the bottom there.
We put that on top there.
Now there's a few different ways
that we can actually brew coffee in this.
There is the traditional way.
This is how AeroPress say to do it
with the bottom plunger like this,
you put the coffee in that way.
There is an inverted method
in which you lay that off
and you put this upside down like this.
You put your coffee in
there and you fill it up
and let it brew for a while.
The benefits of that is the
water doesn't start dripping
at the bottom straight away
and you get a stronger coffee.
The downside of it and why
AeroPress don't recommend it,
is that it's top heavy
because this section is full of water,
the bottom isn't.
So, it can become top heavy.
So if you do decide to do it that way,
make sure you put it somewhere
where kids aren't gonna knock it over,
where it's not gonna fall over
or you're gonna lose your hot brew.
Today, I'm gonna do it the
AeroPress recommended way,
which is the coffee in the
bottom here on top of the mug.
It's sturdy on this mug, that
sits sturdy on top of there
and then this one goes in the top there.
Now, once again we're gonna follow
AeroPress's recommendations here today.
They say one heaped spoonful
of coffee in the bottom there.
Fill the water to the number one
and then we press it down and
that makes a shot of coffee.
There's a lot of different ways
you can make coffee in this.
I actually prefer in
my original AeroPress,
which is the one I own.
I put quite a heaped
scoop in the bottom there
and I fill it right up to the top
and make a really strong
long black coffee.
I like that for camping
because I don't have
to carry a lot of milk with me.
I can fill most of this cup up,
and then just put a little
bit of milk in the top.
If I'm doing a shot of coffee,
I'll need to work out someway
to warm or stretch milk
to fill it up the rest of the way
which isn't always convenient camping,
but there are lots of different
ways you can make coffee.
So anyway, today we're gonna follow the
AreoPress recommended way.
So I'm just gonna scoop a heaped scoop
and then actually I do
wanna scoop in a little bit
because I can't get a scoop out.
Now we've got our coffee inside.
Now this is quite a coarse ground coffee.
You can probably use finer ground coffee.
What you find is the finer the ground,
the harder it is to press down,
the coarser the ground,
the easier the water runs through.
Personal preference once again,
once the coffee is inside,
experiment, see what works best for you.
Now give this a bit of a shake
so the coffee levels
out in the bottom there.
And we're now going to add
some water into the top.
So I've got some hot water here.
In terms of what water to use,
as with most coffee you wanna
use it just off of boiling.
AeroPress say that 175
degrees in their directions,
but a bit hard to measure
temperature exactly
when you're camping.
So I'd say boil it, let
it sit for a few minutes
and then pour it in.
So I'm now gonna pour the
coffee in so that it fills up
to the number one on the side here.
And the water's gonna start to drip
through the bottom straight away.
That's okay.
Don't let it sit too long
because we wanna get in there
and stir it very quickly afterwards.
So I'll just pour this
in up to the number one.
I'll then grab our little stirrer here,
give it a bit of a stir,
being careful not to tear the paper filter
on the bottom there.
Give that a bit of a tap.
We can see that that's now dripping
through the bottom just slightly there.
And we now grab the plunger.
Put it in the top and we
push down just gently.
Don't force it.
You don't wanna feel pressure.
If you do feel pressure,
just back off a little bit
and let the water go
through nice and easily.
So we can see, I can hear that
that's starting to hiss now
because it's pushed the water through
and now just pushing air through.
So if we just keep going all the way down
to compress the coffee at the bottom,
and that's now our shot
of coffee in the cup here.
It's a bit hard to see
in the dark cup there
but that smells really nice
and it's a nice dark shot
of coffee.
So this is quite a big cup really.
That's filled this cup up to,
about, yeah there's about 440
millilitres this cup here.
So we would need quite a bit of milk
to make that into a sort of long
or flat white style of coffee.
Plus I mentioned if we
filled the press up further
we'd actually have more
black coffee in there.
Put a little bit of milk in
and you've got,
I guess you could have like
an American style espresso.
That's quite a sort of a long
or a long black I suppose.
Or I prefer to have
mine, when I'm camping,
a long black with a splash of milk.
The coffee that it
makes is kind of a cross
between an espresso and
a filter type coffee.
It's fairly smooth,
doesn't have quite the bite
of an espresso, it's not quite as oily.
But it kinda sits in between.
And because you've got
so many different ways you can make it,
depending on how you
wanna brew it, invert it,
how much water you use,
the type of coffee you use,
you can make all sorts
of different flavours.
But that is quite a strong
coffee given it didn't brew
for that long.
And that would certainly taste pretty good
with some milk in it.
Now, in terms of cleanup
it's nice and easy.
We grab the plunger here.
We just grab the container here
because I haven't got
a sink in front of me.
We take the bottom off
of this, unscrew it.
You see that can now just get rinsed.
You've got the paper
filter on the bottom here.
If we peel that off we can rinse that off.
Now as I mentioned they're quite tough.
I've rinsed mine 8, 10,
probably more times.
Just give it a rinse under
the tap and leave it to dry.
You can reuse that over and over.
We can then eject the coffee
pack here into a compost bin
or bin, whatever we like.
We just push that all the way through.
The coffee then falls out.
Here's our coffee pack
in the bottom there.
If we had a sink, we'd be able
to just rinse the plunger
on the bottom here.
I haven't got a sink in front of me now
so I'm just gonna give it a wipe.
And because this plunger
sits so firmly within here,
it sort of cleaned that chamber out.
So that can just then be
put back in the cup here.
I'm just gonna tip the coffee out
because I'm not gonna have
another coffee this morning.
I'll just give that a quick wipe out.
Normally you would obviously clean this
a little bit better.
That can then go back in here.
We put our stirrer and
everything back in the top there.
Give that stirrer a wipe off as well.
Then tuck it back in the top there.
That then goes inside there.
The filters on top of the cap over there
and that's our AeroPress packed away.
We can put that back in our
favourite coffee bag if we like.
I've got a little coffee bag here.
This is what I use when I'm camping.
This actually fits really
neatly inside here, upright.
The old AeroPress used
to sit sort of cross ways
in most of these bags.
I've got my mug, my
coffee, my AeroPress there.
I can even fit the filters in if I'd like.
Pack it all up, and we can see guys.
That is the AeroPress Go coffee maker.
An awesome camping coffee maker.
I don't go camping without
my original AeroPress.
If I had my time again,
I'd certainly get this one
because it's more compact,
it fits in this nice little unity.
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