Light & Juicy
Open in appPublished by April Coffee, this upright AeroPress method pairs a low dose with a gentle bloom held beneath a seated plunger, followed by one main pour. It targets a light, juicy cup from bright Kenyan or Ethiopian light roasts.
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Parameters
- 13 g
- Coffee
- 200 g
- Water
- 1:15.4
- Ratio
- 88 °C
- Temp
- 6 medium-coarse
- Grind
- 2:05
- Total
- ~200 ml
- Yield
What is 6/10 on your Comandante C40 or 1Zpresso? Gota turns it into clicks
Method
2:05 · total-
Pour 1 / 80:008s
Pour 50g and stir gently to saturate the bed.
+50g→ 50g Fill gently 88°C -
Prepare 2 / 80:0822s
Rest the plunger on the surface — don't press down. Let it steep.
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Prepare 3 / 80:305s
Remove the plunger.
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Pour 4 / 80:355s
Pour the final 150g gently to 200g.
+150g→ 200g Fill gently -
Prepare 5 / 80:405s
Insert the plunger to create a vacuum seal.
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Steep 6 / 80:4550s
Let it steep.
50s -
Press 7 / 81:3530s
Press until you hear the hiss.
30s -
Done 8 / 82:05
Press complete.
Notes
Grinder
Medium-coarse — about 25–27 clicks on a Comandante.
Original source
Recipe by April Coffee Roasters, published at aeroprecipe.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.