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Aeropress

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In Simple Terms

An AeroPress is a small, portable coffee maker that you can hold in your hand. You put coffee and hot water in it, wait a moment, then push a plunger down to press the coffee into your cup. It's quick, easy to clean, and makes a really good cup.

What is an AeroPress?

The AeroPress is a manual brewing device invented by Alan Adler and released in 2005. It combines immersion brewing - steeping ground coffee in hot water - with gentle air pressure to push the brew through a paper or metal filter into the cup. The whole process takes under two minutes.

What makes it genuinely useful as a roaster or cupper is its flexibility. Grind size, water temperature, steep time, and brew ratio can all be pushed in different directions without the device struggling, which means you can use it to explore a coffee across a wide range of variables quickly. Many professional cuppers keep an AeroPress to hand for fast evaluations when they don't want to set up a full cupping table.

It's also practically indestructible and fits in a bag - which is why it's become the default travel brewing device for roasters working across origin, warehouse, and roastery.

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