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Slow Press

by Lance Hedrick AeroPress

Lance Hedrick's standard upright AeroPress recipe built on three principles: slow press, always bloom, coarser grind. A gentle 1-minute press keeps colloids and fines out of the cup, delivering V60-like clarity with the tactile mouthfeel only the AeroPress can produce.

  • Balanced
  • Medium-bodied
  • Standard
  • Beginner
Total
3:00
Ratio
1:14.7
Coffee
17 g
Temp
82 °C

The Slow Press recipe by Lance Hedrick for the AeroPress uses 17 g of coffee and 250 g of water (1:14.7 ratio), at 82°C, with a target brew time of 3:00.

Roast level

Light Medium Dark

Parameters

Adjusted by variant
17 g
Coffee
250 g
Water
1:14.7
Ratio
82 °C
Temp
5 medium fine
Grind
3:00
Total
1
Servings
Grind · 5/10 · medium
FINE COARSE

Method

3:00 · total
  1. 0:00
    Bloom

    Level the bed with a gentle shake. Pour 45g (3× the dose) slowly — let the kettle stream break up before it hits the bed. Give a small swirl to even the wetting.

    +45g 8s Slow
  2. 0:45
    Pour

    Pour to 250g cumulative in slow gentle circles. Immediately set the plunger on top to stop drips, then move off the scale and give a small swirl.

    +250g 12s Circular
  3. 0:57
    Wait

    Steep until the 2:00 mark. Immersion plus light percolation through the bed.

  4. 2:00
    Press

    Slow press, about a minute. Almost just the weight of your hand on the plunger — no pushing. Stop just before the hiss; pressing through forces particles into the cup.

  5. 3:00
    Done

    Brew complete. Yield around ~210g.

Notes

Slow press is the headline: pressing fast forces colloids and undissolved particles through the filter, adding bitterness and astringency. Pressing slow — about a minute, almost just the weight of your hand — keeps the bed acting as the primary filter. Always bloom: 45 s with the bed lightly saturated. Skipping bloom means a lot of under-extracted water drips through during the main pour, diluting the cup. Don't go too fine: coarser grind = more even flow through the bed. Hedrick's rule: start as coarse as you can, then go finer until you find the sweet spot. Don't go too hot: Hedrick never goes over 95°C even with the lightest roasts — direct correlation between temperature and perceived bitterness. Lower temperature for darker roasts (see roast variants). Standard upright, not inverted — the inverted method is less common nowadays due to spill risk during the flip. A Melodrip helps gentle the bloom pour by breaking up the kettle stream so it doesn't penetrate too deep into the bed.

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Original source

Recipe by Lance Hedrick, published at youtube.com.

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