AeroPress
WAC 2018 Runner-Up
by Xiaobo Zhang
World AeroPress Championship 2018 runner-up. Inverted, two-grind recipe — a 30g coarse base finished with a 1g pinch of espresso-fine fines for body.
Parameters
- 30 g
- Coffee
- 170 g
- Water
- 1:5.7
- Ratio
- 80 °C
- Temp
- 8 extra coarse
- Grind
- 1:30
- Total
- 1
- Servings
Method
1:30 · total-
Pour 1 / 70:00+100g add
To
100g
15s SlowInverted: add the coarse 30g, then pour 100g of 80°C water in 15 seconds.
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Stir 2 / 70:15
Stir for 15 seconds.
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Pour 3 / 70:30+70g add
To
170g
5s SlowAdd 70g more water (total 170g).
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Wait 4 / 70:35
Sprinkle the 1g pinch of espresso-fine grounds on top.
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Wait 5 / 70:40
Cap with the cold-rinsed Kalita filter and flip.
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Press 6 / 70:45
Press for 45 seconds.
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Done 7 / 71:30
Top with 50g of hot water and serve.
Notes
Grinder
DM Grind 2 hand grinder at 10/10 for the base; espresso-fine for the {{1|g|mass}} pinch.
Original source
Recipe by Xiaobo Zhang, published at worldaeropresschampionship.com.
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Definitions, ratios and protocols behind this recipe.
- AeroPress The AeroPress is a steel cylinder, a plunger, and a paper filter — sold as a travel brewer in 2005 and quickly adopted by people who'd never travel with one. Its trick is that it sits across the filter/immersion line. Closed at the bottom by the filter and your stand, it's an immersion brewer. Once you press, water and grounds separate fast. The grind range it accepts is enormous, and the cup is clean but with body.
- How coffee is roasted Roasting is the chemistry that turns a green seed into something that tastes like coffee. A green bean is dense, vegetal, and sour — undrinkable in any meaningful sense. Heat applied for the right amount of time transforms it into the aromatic, brown, brewable thing on the shelf. Almost everything you taste in a finished cup was either created or shaped during the eight to fifteen minutes the bean spent inside a roaster.