The Aeropress brews concentrate. Dilute with hot water and you’ve got 4 cups from one brew. Great for travel, groups, and play.
The recipe
Step by step
Prep
Inverted Aeropress on the scale. Spoon and timer ready. Boiled water rested 1 minute (~90°C).
Add (0:00)
50g finely ground coffee in. 200g water in. Big stir to wet everything, no air bubbles. Start timer.
Brew (0:00 → 1:00)
One minute. Stir every 20 seconds.
Cap (1:00)
Stir once more. Cap with paper filter. Hold the whole thing tight, flip onto a carafe.
Press
Push down with steady pressure (mimics espresso machine pressure). Two hands.
Dilute
You have concentrate. Add 400–600g hot water to taste. Now you’re at filter strength.
Pro tips
Boiled water, rested 1 min
≈ 90°C. The right temp for fine grinds. Boiling water scorches them.
Inverted method
More control over timing. Worth the awkward flip. You don’t have to rush.
Press steady, both hands
The pressure mimics an espresso machine. Steady beats hard.
The output is concentrate
Always dilute. 400g hot water is a good starting point. Adjust to taste.
Grind = espresso fine
Same as for an espresso machine if you have one. Coarser and it under-extracts.
What you need
You do not need all of it. This is the order we would buy it in.
A grinder that goes fineThis recipe grinds close to espresso, so a grinder that only does filter will under-extract.
A filter roastConcentrate gets diluted, so a lighter filter coffee keeps its character all the way down.
All of it lives in our equipment shop, alongside the grinders, machines and accessories we actually use.
What coffee works best
A few picks from the Field lineup that suit this method.
