oooh, just used this technique. SO GOOD! Used a locally roasted Panama bean (single origin). I can see why you won with this. This shit is super tasty.
I thought it was just me being biased, but I get the tastiest aeropress brews with this recipe. So glad to hear it's coming through for you! It sounds nice with that Panama you have
Good afternoon, i tried your recipe and it was brilliant, it makes a great cup also very simple and versatile as i brewed a medium roast and light roast and got great results. I think this will be my daily brew method as i have been trying different recipes for some time and they're sometimes not consistent. Thankyou and congratulations on your win
Hey Michael! Thank you for feedback and very happy to hear this brew has been simple and versatile. I'd agree, I've had great results with both medium and light roasts with very little adjustment
This is the first aeropress recipe where I felt I am zeroing in on what tastes about right. RN I am getting pretty great results. I just took off 15 seconds of the brewing time and I am getting pretty close to perfect. Thank you!
That's awesome! Happy to hear that. You definitely need to make some small adjustments depending on preference and coffee you're brewing. I also brewed earlier this week and found shortening the brew time a little bit got me what I was looking for
Always wanted a aeropress so I finally bought one to add to the rest of my coffee gear. Tried your recipe and was in shock/ love at the same time. It made a delicious cup. Thanks for sharing
Wow! I just tried your recipe and it’s spectacular! Been a while since I’ve been able to get such intense flavor from an aeropress. Many thanks! The only question I have is does your recipe scale up - because I drank nice and slow and was sad that my cup was finished so quickly. Would it work with 250 or 270g of water (which is about the max you can add to an aeropress) and the appropriate amount of more beans to keep the ratio at 17.4? Anyone else who’s done this know?
Thanks for the feedback! I've enjoyed the texture of the brew too in addition to the intense flavor you can get out of it. Scaling is a little difficult due to the size of the aeropress. I find that this may be hard to scale up. If you add more beans and more water like what you've mentioned, I don't think you'll be able to make it happen. If you do, then it will be very very close and potentially messy. I'm considering picking up the Aeropress XL and see if I can create a similar recipe for bigger brews.
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Hey thanks for the reply! I hear ya about it being a potential mess, esp. given how high the grounds will pile when added second - but I have done brews with greater amounts of water. It’ll be close. I’ll let you know how it goes! ✨☕️✨👌🏼🤠
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Hey there! I tried again… 243g water to 14g coffee… Same coffee same grind size… same ratio (I believe). Alas it didn’t scale. Cup was noticeably less flavorful. To double check, I did another cup the next day and it was definitely like the first day. I dunno what the tweakage needs to be but I was about at the max that I could do with the aeropress (which is one of the new ones, and I feel like is a little bit smaller than the older model). It’d be great to squeeze more liquid out of the recipe but I’d rather have a smaller tastier cup!
thanks for following up and confirming! Yeah, it might be worth picking up an XL and seeing if that helps. I also would prefer a tastier cup even if that meant a little less liquid.
Recipe: 208g Water 13g Coffee (few notches finer than pour over) Inverted Aeropress with 94 Degree Celsius water Water First - Add Coffee and start the timer Stir for 15 seconds At 1:40 Turn over the Aeropress, swirl for 5 Seconds and Plunge within 30 seconds
Tried about 10 different championship recipies and this is by far te best one. And you dont need to be in a hurry during preparation. For light roast my grind size in 52 (from dial 0, not absolute 0) on my Kingrinder K6. How would you start dialing in medium roast- going slightly coarser or lowering temperature?
Thank you! It is a very simple recipe that does let you relax a bit. You can also use just about any kettle with temperature control. That's a great question. Actually working on releasing a video this week. I had to dial in a medium roast for the 2024 US Aeropress Championship so I walk through my process in that video
What is the reason for adding the water in first? Do you prefer this better than adding water to the coffee? I was not using my aeropress correctly. Was using 175F for the water and was not measuring the beans or water. Made a big difference using your recipe. Thank you
That's a great question. I created this recipe using some aspects from a clever dripper recipe and as well as our cupping process. If I'm honest, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it produces tasty cups and I'm sticking with it. I'm glad to hear this made a big difference!
Love this recipe! Simple and easy. I’m new to Aeropress coffee so I’m wondering something. At the end you talk about taste test you say if the coffee is underwhelming or missing flavor to grind coarser is that just an aeropress thing? For pour overs or espresso I’d typically grind finer if that was the case.
Thanks Ryan! glad to hear the recipe is treating you well. That is a great observation. I also normally would grind finer for pour overs and espresso to get more taste out of it, however, I've noticed something different in my experience with aeropress. With the aeropress in particular, I've noticed going coarser usually cleans up the brew and brings out a bit more flavor. Cups usually just taste muddy and like "coffee" without the delicate flavors i'm trying to pull out of it if I go too fine on the aeropress. This may be worth exploring more in detail and doing some side by side tests.
Going to try your brew method too after using the same method for about 10 years. That being said, I am experimenting with how to use the aeropress as a no bypass pourover filter.
Would love to hear about your experience with this recipe. I have tried to experiment with that too. So far, I've just run into clogging and very very slow draw down
I tried it with two Ethiopian coffees, a dark roast and a light roast. The dark was amazing, but the light was underextracted (not much taste). Would you recommend a finer grind? I usually use this coffee with James Hoffmann's method and 17 clicks, so maybe go coarser? Also can I go 12g and 192ml? I'm using aeropress go Thanks!
Hey! This is awesome feedback and a good question. By underextracted, is it tasting sour? Or very very bright? I would definitely recommend going a few clicks coarser and see how that improves the flavor. Respond back with your results!
@@MirrorCoffeeRoastershi thanks for responding! if by very bright you mean what I would call taste like water (sory I still figuring out coffee terminology) so yes, definitely not sour, I will try coarser and update!
That's fair. We were hoping to make something simple, sweet, and short. The main idea here was somewhat inspired by a few popular clever dripper recipes where you add the water in first and then stir in the coffee over. It then steeps for some time before you open the hatch for the water to drain through. This is pretty much an aeropress version of that. The hope here was to provide more movement and agitation for the coffee to be extracted.
In science labs, it’s ideal to mix in your granular material into a liquid vortex (stirring) to help integrate more evenly into rhetorical liquid. VS a heavy stream of liquid on a pile of grounds and uneven.
I think I mention 12 clicks in here, but that's in the ball park. That's clicks from absolute zero. I'm brewing pour overs around 15-18 clicks so it's a bit finer than that, but also a fairly short brew time too.
Going a few notches finer than pour over was just reference point for those who are not using a Comandante. My pour over is at 16 - 18 clicks so for me it's not too far away
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Fair enough it's not that much finer than Comandante's own chart at 20-35 for filter. But I guess you go that fine if you have super light Scandinavian style coffee like for example from Drop coffee in Stockholm Sweden.
Since Hoffman’s blind taste test revealed no difference in the inverted method, I’m curious if you’ve also conducted multiple thorough blind taste tests to see if inverted actually provides value.
This is a great comment and I have watched Hoffman's blind taste test. The only difference here really is that water gets added first and coffee gets added second and then stirred. The hope here is that the agitation of the coffee getting mixed into the water helps with extraction. There's also a good chance that it might not make a difference and the same results could be achieved without using the inverted method. This has just always tasted good, and I stuck with it.
12*30 micron = 360 micron = within the "fine" range on Kruve Brewler. Totaly subjective, but I´m down at 270 micron with most coffes when I´m brewing with AP.
Emphasis on “barely” putting the plunger in. 208 will fill the chamber to the brim with almost no room for grounds. Also, putting the filter cap on with a loaded chamber is a bit of a dance.
Thanks very much for sharing the recipe. It’s bit too intense and bitter to my liking unfortunately. I tried 14clicks on my Comandante c40. May be I’ve been drinking lighter recipe, 25-30clicks range.
Happy to share! If it's too intense, you can always dose less coffee which will give it more of a lighter taste experience. If it's bitter, you can lower your kettle temperature or go a little coarser on the grind. You also don't want to over do it to the point that you get under extracted coffee. Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate this
I am not sure how much clicks on the Timemore C3 as I don't have any experience with them. You might want to start by going two clicks finer than pour over with the C3. Then Adjust the grind setting according to taste
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters is it true that aeropress tastes more natural and hani processing? maybe I'm not doing well with the wash, the results are better with Hana
oooh, just used this technique. SO GOOD! Used a locally roasted Panama bean (single origin). I can see why you won with this. This shit is super tasty.
I thought it was just me being biased, but I get the tastiest aeropress brews with this recipe.
So glad to hear it's coming through for you! It sounds nice with that Panama you have
Tried it out today with a light roast Columbian. Rich, and soft. Thanks for the idea of putting the coffee on the water.
That's awesome! Glad to hear this helped you make a good cup of coffee
What good does this idea do exactly? Did you try it by simply following the recipe adding the coffee first and stirring anyway?
Been using this method every morning for a few months now. Love it.
Zack! Thanks for coming back a few months later and sharing your feedback on this. Thank you and glad to hear you've been enjoying it.
Good afternoon, i tried your recipe and it was brilliant, it makes a great cup also very simple and versatile as i brewed a medium roast and light roast and got great results. I think this will be my daily brew method as i have been trying different recipes for some time and they're sometimes not consistent. Thankyou and congratulations on your win
Hey Michael! Thank you for feedback and very happy to hear this brew has been simple and versatile. I'd agree, I've had great results with both medium and light roasts with very little adjustment
This is the first aeropress recipe where I felt I am zeroing in on what tastes about right. RN I am getting pretty great results. I just took off 15 seconds of the brewing time and I am getting pretty close to perfect. Thank you!
That's awesome! Happy to hear that. You definitely need to make some small adjustments depending on preference and coffee you're brewing. I also brewed earlier this week and found shortening the brew time a little bit got me what I was looking for
Always wanted a aeropress so I finally bought one to add to the rest of my coffee gear. Tried your recipe and was in shock/ love at the same time. It made a delicious cup. Thanks for sharing
Happy this recipe worked out for you! It really does make a delicious cup of coffee and pretty easily
What a great recipe!!
Love the piece on adding the water first
Glad to hear it yielded great results for you!
Great recipe. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow morning. Good luck in Arkansas!
Your recipe made me rethink mine. The cup I had off it today was brilliant. Really juicy. Great job, and good luck on Friday.
Thank you! I had a lot of fun in Arkansas brewing
Wow! I just tried your recipe and it’s spectacular! Been a while since I’ve been able to get such intense flavor from an aeropress. Many thanks! The only question I have is does your recipe scale up - because I drank nice and slow and was sad that my cup was finished so quickly. Would it work with 250 or 270g of water (which is about the max you can add to an aeropress) and the appropriate amount of more beans to keep the ratio at 17.4? Anyone else who’s done this know?
Thanks for the feedback! I've enjoyed the texture of the brew too in addition to the intense flavor you can get out of it.
Scaling is a little difficult due to the size of the aeropress. I find that this may be hard to scale up. If you add more beans and more water like what you've mentioned, I don't think you'll be able to make it happen. If you do, then it will be very very close and potentially messy.
I'm considering picking up the Aeropress XL and see if I can create a similar recipe for bigger brews.
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Hey thanks for the reply! I hear ya about it being a potential mess, esp. given how high the grounds will pile when added second - but I have done brews with greater amounts of water. It’ll be close. I’ll let you know how it goes! ✨☕️✨👌🏼🤠
No problem! Would love to hear if you were able to make it work. I'm curious!
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Hey there! I tried again… 243g water to 14g coffee… Same coffee same grind size… same ratio (I believe). Alas it didn’t scale. Cup was noticeably less flavorful. To double check, I did another cup the next day and it was definitely like the first day. I dunno what the tweakage needs to be but I was about at the max that I could do with the aeropress (which is one of the new ones, and I feel like is a little bit smaller than the older model). It’d be great to squeeze more liquid out of the recipe but I’d rather have a smaller tastier cup!
thanks for following up and confirming!
Yeah, it might be worth picking up an XL and seeing if that helps.
I also would prefer a tastier cup even if that meant a little less liquid.
For me,It was literally the best recepie.
Thank you!
Recipe:
208g Water
13g Coffee (few notches finer than pour over)
Inverted Aeropress with 94 Degree Celsius water
Water First - Add Coffee and start the timer
Stir for 15 seconds
At 1:40 Turn over the Aeropress, swirl for 5 Seconds and Plunge within 30 seconds
Doing the lord's work in the comments
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Thank you for this awesome recipe ;). I´m using it a lot so to reproduce it quicker i thought to put it in the comments 🙌
Tried about 10 different championship recipies and this is by far te best one. And you dont need to be in a hurry during preparation. For light roast my grind size in 52 (from dial 0, not absolute 0) on my Kingrinder K6.
How would you start dialing in medium roast- going slightly coarser or lowering temperature?
Thank you! It is a very simple recipe that does let you relax a bit. You can also use just about any kettle with temperature control.
That's a great question. Actually working on releasing a video this week. I had to dial in a medium roast for the 2024 US Aeropress Championship so I walk through my process in that video
Did this recipe. Excellent! Thanks for sharing and congratulations!
That's awesome! Happy to hear that
Definitely gonna have to give this one a try 🔥🔥🔥
Let me know how it goes!
What is the reason for adding the water in first? Do you prefer this better than adding water to the coffee? I was not using my aeropress correctly. Was using 175F for the water and was not measuring the beans or water. Made a big difference using your recipe. Thank you
That's a great question. I created this recipe using some aspects from a clever dripper recipe and as well as our cupping process. If I'm honest, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it produces tasty cups and I'm sticking with it.
I'm glad to hear this made a big difference!
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters thank you for answering so quickly. That is rare here on YT when I ask questions. Take care
Nice! Can’t wait to try it!
Let us know how it goes!
Love this recipe! Simple and easy. I’m new to Aeropress coffee so I’m wondering something. At the end you talk about taste test you say if the coffee is underwhelming or missing flavor to grind coarser is that just an aeropress thing? For pour overs or espresso I’d typically grind finer if that was the case.
Thanks Ryan! glad to hear the recipe is treating you well.
That is a great observation. I also normally would grind finer for pour overs and espresso to get more taste out of it, however, I've noticed something different in my experience with aeropress. With the aeropress in particular, I've noticed going coarser usually cleans up the brew and brings out a bit more flavor. Cups usually just taste muddy and like "coffee" without the delicate flavors i'm trying to pull out of it if I go too fine on the aeropress.
This may be worth exploring more in detail and doing some side by side tests.
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters thanks for the info, that will be helpful for dialing in in the future.
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
I’ll try it out and report back!
No problem! Enjoy
Going to try your brew method too after using the same method for about 10 years. That being said, I am experimenting with how to use the aeropress as a no bypass pourover filter.
Would love to hear about your experience with this recipe.
I have tried to experiment with that too. So far, I've just run into clogging and very very slow draw down
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters I kinda got it working by using an Able Disk Fine filter but it isn't as clean as I like.
I tried it with two Ethiopian coffees, a dark roast and a light roast. The dark was amazing, but the light was underextracted (not much taste). Would you recommend a finer grind? I usually use this coffee with James Hoffmann's method and 17 clicks, so maybe go coarser? Also can I go 12g and 192ml? I'm using aeropress go
Thanks!
Hey! This is awesome feedback and a good question.
By underextracted, is it tasting sour? Or very very bright?
I would definitely recommend going a few clicks coarser and see how that improves the flavor. Respond back with your results!
@@MirrorCoffeeRoastershi thanks for responding! if by very bright you mean what I would call taste like water (sory I still figuring out coffee terminology) so yes, definitely not sour, I will try coarser and update!
Great recipe. Gotta try it on my aeropress go soon.
Thank you!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Trying it tomorrow morning 🎉 How many filters though by default?
Just one filter here. Hope you enjoyed your brew!
Aeropress brewer, same recipe since 2010. For the first time, I’m thinking of changing my goto recipe.
Wow! That means a lot to hear! Thanks for sharing that with me, and glad I could help offer a recipe you enjoy
Would've appreciated the reasoning behind water first! But thanks for the video! Can't wait to try!
That's fair. We were hoping to make something simple, sweet, and short.
The main idea here was somewhat inspired by a few popular clever dripper recipes where you add the water in first and then stir in the coffee over. It then steeps for some time before you open the hatch for the water to drain through. This is pretty much an aeropress version of that.
The hope here was to provide more movement and agitation for the coffee to be extracted.
In science labs, it’s ideal to mix in your granular material into a liquid vortex (stirring) to help integrate more evenly into rhetorical liquid. VS a heavy stream of liquid on a pile of grounds and uneven.
Thank you for this insight! That's very interesting and happens to fit this recipe well.
13 clicks? This seems very fine. Is that from absolute zero? Or from the free spin point?
I think I mention 12 clicks in here, but that's in the ball park. That's clicks from absolute zero.
I'm brewing pour overs around 15-18 clicks so it's a bit finer than that, but also a fairly short brew time too.
Will try it tomorrow, what was coffee was that in the competition?
Would love to hear what you thought Anders!
The competition coffee we later found out was a Costa Rican honey process coffee
@MirrorCoffeeRoasters This recipe is going in my notebook, sweet and really easy to dial in. Thanks for chairing!!!
Honored to have my recipe in your notebook! Glad you enjoyed the brews you're getting from it
12 clicks on the Comandante is about 10-12 clicks finer than I use for pour over not a few notches finer.
Going a few notches finer than pour over was just reference point for those who are not using a Comandante.
My pour over is at 16 - 18 clicks so for me it's not too far away
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters Fair enough it's not that much finer than Comandante's own chart at 20-35 for filter.
But I guess you go that fine if you have super light Scandinavian style coffee like for example from Drop coffee in Stockholm Sweden.
Since Hoffman’s blind taste test revealed no difference in the inverted method, I’m curious if you’ve also conducted multiple thorough blind taste tests to see if inverted actually provides value.
This is a great comment and I have watched Hoffman's blind taste test.
The only difference here really is that water gets added first and coffee gets added second and then stirred. The hope here is that the agitation of the coffee getting mixed into the water helps with extraction.
There's also a good chance that it might not make a difference and the same results could be achieved without using the inverted method. This has just always tasted good, and I stuck with it.
Do you wet your paper?
I do wet my paper filter
Would help to see the grind size :)
Sorry for not showing that. Will make note!
12 clicks on commandante..
Isn't that espresso level grind ?
If you have red clicks, maybe. Just 12 clicks on Comandante is far from espresso though. Give it a try!
12*30 micron = 360 micron = within the "fine" range on Kruve Brewler.
Totaly subjective, but I´m down at 270 micron with most coffes when I´m brewing with AP.
You don't need much but the whole equipment 😂
I reckon. Relatively you don't need much compared to other methods
Emphasis on “barely” putting the plunger in. 208 will fill the chamber to the brim with almost no room for grounds. Also, putting the filter cap on with a loaded chamber is a bit of a dance.
Yes, this is a pretty close brew here. Definitely need to make room for the water and coffee grounds.
This is my error. I was using the AeroPress Go.
Thanks very much for sharing the recipe.
It’s bit too intense and bitter to my liking unfortunately.
I tried 14clicks on my Comandante c40.
May be I’ve been drinking lighter recipe, 25-30clicks range.
Happy to share!
If it's too intense, you can always dose less coffee which will give it more of a lighter taste experience. If it's bitter, you can lower your kettle temperature or go a little coarser on the grind.
You also don't want to over do it to the point that you get under extracted coffee.
Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate this
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters great. thanks very much for the tips. I will try again 🙏
How does one keep a straight face when saying your plunge was a few seconds off? lol so stupid
Hope the recipe treated you well though
Too weak for me. Too much water. If you like your coffee strong try 18g coffee 60g water everything else the same.
Definitely adjust according to taste!
Hello. please tell me how many clicks on the coffee grinder timemore c3esp
I am not sure how much clicks on the Timemore C3 as I don't have any experience with them.
You might want to start by going two clicks finer than pour over with the C3. Then Adjust the grind setting according to taste
@@MirrorCoffeeRoasters is it true that aeropress tastes more natural and hani processing? maybe I'm not doing well with the wash, the results are better with Hana