Hey guys, it's Aleš from European Coffee Trip and in this video
we'll take brewing coffee with the AeroPress to the next level.
We'll prove that the AeroPress is easily the most
versatile coffee brewer on the planet.
We will use it to brew nine different styles of coffee
from 40 milliliters in espresso to a big batch of black coffee.
Cold or hot, brewed in one minute or 12 hours.
You can do it all and I don't think anybody try all the methods.
So check it out!
We will use the same coffee for all methods.
It's coffee roasted by our friends at Rebelbean in Brno.
It's their limited edition of coffee from Peru
produced by Elvis Tino Raphael. If possible
we will use 14 grams of coffee, which is
more or less the Aeropress scoop, but as you know,
it's better to use scales.
What will vary though is a grand size, amount of water
and its temperature and also the brew time.
So let's start with the original AeroPress recipe.
When Alan Adler invented the AeroPress
he wanted to have a cheap coffee maker
that can produce espresso style coffee in less than a minute.
So here's how to do it.
We'll use 14 grams of coffee, grind ti fine, close to espresso grind size.
That is around 8 clicks on Comandante grinder
and add 50 to 60 grams of water
that you can actually finish pouring at the mark 1.
It's recommended to use around 85 degree Celsius water,
but I think you will be fine
with water around 90 or more.
Then you steer it for 10 to 15 seconds
and press gently.
Overall it shouldn't take you more than a minute.
It's really quick brew!
And you get about 40 grams or milliliters in your cup.
Now you can drink it as it is
or you can dilute it with hot water to your taste.
It's similar to ordering americano in the coffee shop
or you can actually add milk.
And if you want to learn how to steam milk
and make latte art we make a video about it, too.
This was you can make also double or triple shop.
Just multiply the serving and adjust the grind size to your taste.
If you want to add more pressure to your brewing
you can buy the Prismo attachment from Fellow and this way you can
experiment even more with the AeroPress espressos at home.
Last year we made a video about brewing with the room-temperature water.
It's presented as a cold brew coffee,
but really it's rather cold extracted coffee
that you can actually brew also in one minute.
The reactions were surprisingly positive.
Many of our friends reported amazing results for slightly older coffee beans.
But the main benefit is actually the temperature of the water.
You don't need to use hot water at all.
So here is how you do it!
You will use 14 grams of coffee grinding fine with espresso grind size
This time you go even finer with 6 clicks on Comandante grinder.
You had 50 to 60 grams of room-temperature water,
there's usually around 20 degrees Celsius.
Now you will stir for about 30 seconds.
The additional agitation will help extract coffee
even more at a lower temperature.
Then you press gently.
It should take a little over one minute.
When the specialty coffee community give their hands on the AeroPress
they didn't think the best way to brew is with by-pass or dilution.
They prefer to brew a full cup,
200 milliliters or 250 milliliters
and one of the first recipes in Europe was developed at Tim Wendelboe's cafe in Oslo.
It goes like this.
You will use 14 grams of coffee, medium grind size,
we use around 16 clicks on Commandante grinder.
You add 200 grams of 93 degrees Celsius water
Quickly stir it and add the plunger to stop dripping.
At around one minute, you take out the plunger,
stir it again and press it gently.
Over-all it should take you around 90 seconds
If too much water passes a coffee before you start pressing
You should check these things:
Number one, if the coffee bed is level and water don't run through the filter without saturating coffee.
Number two, if you insert the plunger properly,
so the vacuum is created to stop dripping
or number three, if your grind size isn't too coarse.
Still, some people want you to have a better control over the brewing.
So the inverted method was created.
By not placing the AeroPress on the cup directly
you have a total control over all brewing variables.
The funny thing is
that many people, including myself, learned these methods as the first one.
Here is how to do it!
You will place the AeroPress into the inverted position.
You will add 14 grams of coffee, medium grind size.
We use around 16 clicks on the Comandante grinder.
You add 200 grams of 93 degrees Celsius water
and wait until one minute.
In the meantime you rinse the paper filter and close the AeroPress filter cap.
Then you exceed the additional air
and in one minute you carefully rotate the AeroPress on the cap and press.
Once again, total brew time should be around 90 seconds.
The benefit of this method is that you can use any grind size
and the steeping and pressing phases are strictly separated
similar to brewing with the Clever Dripper for instance.
A tricky part is turning the AeroPress.
Many of us had funny and maybe less funny accidents,
but you will quickly learn the movement
and if you are careful, there is no danger.
If you fancy cold coffee,
but you don't want to wait several hours,
here is what you can do.
You make a stronger brew and you press it over ice.
It will almost instantly melt so you can drink freshly brewed,
but cold coffee immediately.
AeroPress is in the inverted position,
We'll add 14 grams of coffee
slightly finer grind than in the previous method.
We'll use around 12 clicks on the Comandante grinder.
Because we will use only 50% of water for extraction
it will be 100 grams of water.
We'll let it steep for one minute.
In the meantime we'll add about 100 grams of ice cubes
and then rotate the air press and press it over the ice.
Total brewing time should be around 90 seconds
and all ice cubes should melt quickly
after you press out all coffee.
Another way to make cold coffee with the AeroPress
is to use cold or room temperature water,
coarse grind size
and letting it steep for a long period of time,
usually it's 8 to 12 hours.,
but basically it's overnight.
We'll add 14 grams of coffee,
coarse grind size, about 30 clicks on Comandante grinder
and we will add 200 grams of room-temperature water.
Then we will put it into the fridge for over 12 hours.
Than just press it over the filter to separate the coffee slurry.
If you need to brew more coffee
you can steep coffee and water in bigger jar
and then use the AeroPress as a filtration
to when the extraction is over.
Usually, cold brew coffee has less acidity and
bitterness, but more body and caffeine, so be careful.
The last cold coffee method
that you can also do with the AeroPress is called Cold Drip.
Contrary to the cold brew method,
coffee is not immersed in water for a long period of time,
but cold water is dripping through the coffee bed
and slowly extracts coffee one drop at a time.
Usually, you need to have a big and expensive stations to do cold drip,
but thanks to attachments like PUCK PUCK
or do-it-yourself dipping stations
you can do it relatively easily with the AeroPress.
We made a full video about it, but here are the basics.
You will use 19 grams of coffee, medium grind size,
that's about 20 clicks on the Comandante grinder,
add it to the AeroPress chamber
and attach the PUCK PUCK in the closed position.
Ad 50 grams of ice and 200 grams of water
(it can be also just 250 grams of cold water)
and set up the dripp rate to 20 drops per minute
so the resulting brew time is between two and a half
and three hours.
When we talk about the inverted methods
one advantage was that you can easily modify variables
like grind size and brew time
and this way you can mimic long immersive brewing
styles like cupping or French Press.
So this is how you can do it.
The AeroPress is in the inverted position.
We'll add 14 grams of coffee, coarse grind size,
that's about 30 clicks on the Comandante grinder
and we will add 200 grams of 93 degree Celsius water.
We'll let it steep for about 4 minutes
and then we'll mix it with the spoon
and let it wait another 4 minutes.
In about 8 minutes total we add the cap with the filter
and press all the coffee out.
We get an intense bold cup of coffee
that is much cleaner than with the French Press.
That's because of the paper filtration.
Also, it's much easier to clean it.
One of the most common complains about the AeroPress
is that you can brew only one cup of coffee
and that is not true anymore.
Our friend Asser of The Coffee Chronicler blog
came up with the solution how you can brew a bigger batches
without the dilution.
and I don't think many of you try this method before.
So let's take a look!
You will use 23 grams of coffee,
fine grind size, that's 14 clicks on the Comandante grinder
and add a total of 350 grams of 93 degrees Celsius
water poured in two steps.
175 grams each.
In the first stage you had about 50 grams
and stir or swirl it for a few seconds.
Then add the remaining water.
Now comes the tricky part.
You need to push out water without sucking in the coffee ground.
You do it by plunging only about the one centimeter
in a rotation movement.
Then you remove the plunger gently at the angle.
You repeat it until there is no water.
Then you pour the remaining 175 milliliters of water
(actually, that's the inner part of the plunger
that contains exactly the amount of water)
and you wait for 60 seconds before pressing all the way through.
Thank you guys for watching,
we hope that you enjoyed this video
and let us know in the comments what technique, what method
did you try and which one was the most surprising for you,
because even for us when making this video
we were so surprised and excited to see
so many different ways
how AeroPress can be used and we believe that we
convinced you that the AeroPress is probably
the most versatile coffee brewer on the planet.
So, thank you again,
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and I will see you in the next video
hopefully very soon.
Bye bye!
