Brewing
AeroPress. The one that travels, and forgives.
Immersion plus a little pressure. Lower temperature than you think, because the contact is total — 90 °C keeps the sweetness in place instead of pulling it bitter. Inverted, always, whatever the internet says.
The one that travels, and forgives.
The recipe
- Grind
- Fine-medium
- Ratio
- 1 : 13
- Dose
- 17 g / 220 g
- Water
- 90 °C
- Total time
- 2:10
Step by step
- 0:00Inverted. 17 g in, 220 g of 90 °C water straight down the middle.
- 0:10Stir five times, north-south. Cap with a rinsed paper filter.
- 0:10–1:30Leave it. Do not agitate, do not fidget with it.
- 1:30Flip onto the cup and press, slowly, over thirty to forty seconds.
- 2:10Stop the moment you hear the hiss. Everything after the hiss is regret.
Cupped best with MistRoot Highland Arabica — Arabica AA, 90 °C water, 250 g from the Brahmagiri Range, Kodagu (Coorg).
The other five
Same bean, a different drink.
Change the method and the coffee changes with it. Each of these has its own recipe, dialled in on our own lots.