How to Make Espresso Style Coffee with an Aeropress. Quick, Easy, Simple.
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- The best quick & easy method to make espresso-style coffee or 'Aeropress Espresso' with the Aeropress. (See chapters to jump straight to demo). You don't need a spice jar, you don't need to use any accessories or add-ons, it's all about the coffee, the grind & the ratio.
Please note, I am not saying you can make "espresso" with an Aeropress, I'm referring to "espresso style" coffee, meaning short concentrated coffee with something that looks somewhat reminiscent of crema.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:49 What Alan Adler said (in his email to me)
2:59 Why I'm saying "a form of" crema
3:50 A quick run-through of the method
4:26 Do you need brew scales?
4:37 Grind size
5:30 Dose
5:40 Ratio
6:49 Tips for brewing without scales
7:17 Pre-warming/rinsing
7:57 Water temp
8:16 How to detect extraction problems
8:38 Blooming?
9:06 Be gentle
10:13 Recap
10:38 Demo
13:58 Outro
14:19 Tatty bye
Just to point out - there are lots of time codes in the description & chapters in the timeline, so if time is short just go straight to the demo, and if you need further info after that just go to the relevant section in the timeline or look through the timecodes in the description. Cheers.
I just recently started using the AeroPress and the Prismo attachment for a way of making espresso like coffee because my 10.year old semi-auto espresso machine quit and I didn't want to invest in a new one. So, I've been researching for recipes and came across this video. I really like it so thanks for sharing your process. It's really good you took time to discuss dose, ratio, input versus yield. As that has been my biggest challenge with the AeroPress and Prismo, understanding how to dose and grind the coffee and how much water to use to get a specific yield or output. I use a Baratza Vario grinder with ceramic burrs that is modified by Baratza with a metal burr carrier so it is essentially a Vario Plus with additional adjustment range of the original Vario. I can't find any grind size recommendations by anyone who uses the Vario and the AeroPress. I typically use a dark or medium dark roast coffee with the AeroPress. Do you have any other recommendations or techniques you can share? BTW, I like using the Prismo because I can avoid the inverted method.
This changed the game for me! Don’t know if I’ll ever go back to a regular coffee style brew!!
Very interesting and compliments James H’s technique producing a different coffee. Shows the versatility of the Aeropress which I mostly use camping in conjunction with a decent hand grinder. Nothing to touch it for flavour, simplicity and ease of cleaning.
Thanks Christopher,
The AeroPress is fantastic :-)
Just found your channel, and I am really enjoying your videos. I just wanted to say that I have had an aeropress for a while and although I enjoyed he coffee, it wasn't as good as I hoped. I followed your technique from this video today and it is by far the best tasting coffee I have had from my aeropress. I think I got tied up with trying different ways to brew, and it made it complicated. Thank you, I have a new love for my aeropress.
Amazing, thanks for your feedback, I'm so glad that my post has helped you, I love the AeroPress!
Cheers
Kev
It’s interesting to go straight into plunging after stirring instead of letting it steep for 2mins like I’ve seen on other videos, going to give this a go now! 😃
Nice one. Cool to see it in action.
cheers 🙂
Really helpful, thanks so much, on my sage barista pro, what grind setting would you use to make the grounds for this? Need to get this dialled in before my camping holiday this summer!
Cheers Mike, there are quite a few variables including the beans, the brew temp, whether you've changed the internal burr setting on the Barista pro and so on, but assuming it's a pro without an adjusted burr so it's at the factory pre-set 6 internally, I'd probably try at about 20 and go from there. Ta, Kev.
Love your vids.
Thanks :-)
Good video: what are you thoughts on using paper filters v reusable (metal) filters for the aeropress?
Thanks 😀. They're great in that they increase the versatility of what's already a very versatile brewer, the various metal filters at different mesh sizes result in different brews mainly where mouthfeel is concerned.
For people who prefer the heavier mouthfeel of cafetiere for example, the more course metal filters produce a more cafetiere (French press) like Brew allowing more of the solids through.
I've tried various over the years and I've never found any of them to improve the brew for me, personally, I tend to prefer the consistency of paper filtered Aeropress brews.
The paper filters last ages, you can re use them and I find they last from 10 - 12 brews on average before they need swapping.
Cheers
Kev
For measuring water temperature can I get away with buying a cheap kitchen temperature probe I'm assuming it should work well?
What if the output (about 44g) lacks body? Should I grind finer or use hotter water?
Can this recipe be adapted to the Fellow Prismo filter?
Whenever I use the regular method the water pretty much goes straight through, not much left to press through the grounds. Maybe I should try using 2 filter papers? It still does it with the cloth filters I made, though. So I usually do inverted. 😕
This is very impressive Kev but I’m struggling to get any kind of fake crema. I’ve replicated the dose grind coffee type temperature slow press but just bubbles! Good flavour and body though 😊any suggestions most welcome 👍👋
Love my Aeropress. I'm still on my 3rd filter paper! they last forever :D
Haha, they do! I should have mentioned that in the video, I've counted up to 12 uses from one filter!
@@Coffee_Kev can you use a metal filter?
@@robducrowasmr4082 Sure, there are various metal filters and they create a slightly different brew, for example the more coarse ones create something a bit closer to cafetiere/french press. Cheers, Kev.
@@Coffee_Kev what 12 brews from a single paper filter???? Tell me you're telling me the truth?
@@Daniel_Adam Absolutely, They last for ages!
Just drinking a cup of that. Very decent. Beats the Hoffman method. Have just ordered some of that coffee too! Subscribed!
Thanks Steve :-)
are you getting paid for that comment? otherwise nobody could explain your text.
Better than $2K espresso machine.
I cant get any crema out of this method. do you have any clue why that could be and how I could solve it?
I too am not getting any crema. Tried several times changing grind, pressure etc but no foam. What am I doing wrong?
I did get crema but it disappeared within about 15 seconds. The shot I got was actually very full bodied. I used Starbucks standard espresso beans, 17g pre ground, 65ml water heated to 205. Shook the grounds in the press, poured, stirred for 5 seconds, placed plunger down a bit, then waited 15 seconds then slowly depressed. The plunger kicked back bc of the pressure, so I powered through and that’s when some of the crema produced. As far as espresso shots are concerned this isn’t bad for an old open probably stale bag of Starbucks beans.
@@rjr7781 Yeah thats not really crema then. got the same result, tasted alright but its just not really espresso
Skip to 10:40. You're welcome.
“tips for brewing without scales: better just to get a weighing scale”
even better if you have showed us how the coffee grounds look like to make an idea
you're right. I'll re-do this video. Cheers, Kev.
You could have mixed some explaining during the process of making. It’s really hard to watch 10 min of explanation and having the demonstration at the end, it doesn’t bring the content together
Thanks for the feedback Rodrigo, there are loads of timestamps to make it easy to navigate straight to the demo or to any specific part of the explanation. Cheers.
10:41 video starts here
Yes, this is one of my older videos, apologies for that, lots of waffle in this one.
That is insanely dark roasted coffee
It wasn't actually that dark, mainly terrible lighting! This is back when I was trying to do everything myself, and failing 😆. Ta, Kev.
10:40 Starts here if you don't want to just hear talking. 🤦🏻♀️
11:45 start tut...
prelude is too long
Ve al grano ! (Get to the point 👉)
You can get to the point yourself :-) that's what the chapters are for. Cheers, Kev.
dunno what language you’re speaking, but can you say, “I don’t know how to use UA-cam at all” for us?
such a promising technique but way too much talking. get to the point please
Are you going to actually show us? 🤷🏻♀️ Or are you going to keep talking? 🤦🏻♀️
I'm going to keep talking 🤣 👍👍
@@Coffee_Kev 🤣🤣🤣
Quick easy simple?! No! Just not true!
Hi,
Thanks for your message,
What are you struggling with?
Cheers
Kev
Could have been a 5 min video
Aeropress doesn’t make espresso.
I concurr. I say that multiple times throughout the video. This method comes about as close as you'll get to Espresso with an AeroPress tho in my humble opinion. Cheers, Kev.
that is NOT espresso. That has NOTHING to do with espresso.
why the hell would you call that espresso?
The aeropress can make such lovely and perfect cups of coffee.. and you call that espresso..
Yeah you're right to be fair, I was really intending to show a method for producing the "Aeropress espresso" or "espresso style" coffee on the Aeropress without the usual messing about with filters inside the chamber and using spice jars etc., but you're right I shouldn't have called it Espresso, it's not.
Cheers
Kev
@@Coffee_Kev no need to apologize. Anyone that knows how to make espresso knows the AeroPress even with the Prismo attchment doesn't make true espresso and if that is what really want they have to have machine, manual or automatic, capable of true 9 bars of pressure with some means of brew head temp and flow control. So, please don't apologize for the video. I find it quite educational.
You are unbelievably cringe