WAC 2021
Open in appTuomas Merikanto's winning 2021 World AeroPress Championship recipe uses an inverted brewer, paired paper filters, and no bypass. It aims for a clean, aerated cup shaped by controlled cooling and a high pour.
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Parameters
- 18 g
- Coffee
- 200 g
- Water
- 1:11.1
- Ratio
- 80 °C
- Temp
- 7 coarse
- Grind
- 2:00
- Total
- ~200 ml
- Yield
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Method
2:00 · totalBefore you brew
- 1 Set up inverted.
- 2 Add 18g of grounds.
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Pour 1 / 100:0010s
Pour 50g gently.
+50g→ 50g Fill gently 80°C -
Swirl 2 / 100:105s
Stir 3 times.
5s -
Pour 3 / 100:1515s
Pour the final 150g gently to 200g.
+150g→ 200g Fill gently -
Steep 4 / 100:3020s
Let it steep.
20s -
Swirl 5 / 100:505s
Stir gently.
5s -
Prepare 6 / 100:555s
Cap the chamber and press out the air before flipping.
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Steep 7 / 101:0035s
Let it steep.
35s -
Prepare 8 / 101:355s
Flip onto the cup.
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Press 9 / 101:4020s
Press gently with the weight of your hand.
20s -
Done 10 / 102:00
Press complete.
Notes
Original source
Recipe by Tuomas Merikanto, 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.