WAC 2024
Open in appGeorge Stanica's winning recipe from the 2024 World AeroPress Championship uses an inverted chamber and Melodrip-assisted pours to soften agitation. Its concentrated brew and staged bypass are tuned for clarity, sweetness, and precise strength.
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You'll need
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Melodrip Required
A handheld dispersion screen you pour onto; it softens the water stream so it does not agitate or bore into the coffee bed.
Recommended Melodrip
Parameters
- 18 g
- Coffee
- 180 g
- Water
- 1:10
- Ratio
- 96 °C
- Temp
- 8 extra coarse
- Grind
- 2:25
- Total
- ~180 ml
- Yield
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Method
2:25 · totalBefore you brew
- 1 Set up inverted.
- 2 Add 18g of grounds.
- 3 Set up the Melodrip — you pour through it over the bed.
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Pour 1 / 100:0036s
Pour 50g through the Melodrip so the stream disperses evenly and never strikes the bed. Let it steep.
+50g→ 50g Fill gently 96°C -
Pour 2 / 100:366s
Make the last pour to 100g through the Melodrip, keeping the bed calm.
+50g→ 100g Fill gently -
Swirl 3 / 100:4238s
Stir gently. Let it steep.
10s -
Prepare 4 / 101:208s
Cap the chamber and press out the air before flipping.
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Swirl 5 / 101:285s
Swirl gently.
Fill gently -
Prepare 6 / 101:332s
Flip onto the cup.
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Press 7 / 101:3540s
Press gently with the weight of your hand.
30s -
Bypass 8 / 102:155s
Add 55g of bypass water directly to the cup to dilute the concentrate.
+55g→ 155g -
Bypass 9 / 102:205s
Add 25g of bypass water directly to the cup to dilute the concentrate.
+25g→ 180g 20°C -
Done 10 / 102:25
Diluted and ready to drink.
Notes
Grinder
Comandante C40 Mk4 w/ Red Clix, 58 clicks / 870µm
Original source
Recipe by George Stanica, published at worldaeropresschampionship.com.
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Definitions, ratios and protocols behind this recipe.
- AeroPress The AeroPress is a plastic 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.
