WAC 2025
Open in appNemo Pop's winning 2025 World AeroPress Championship recipe brought an upright approach back to the top, combining sifted grounds with a Flow Control Filter Cap. It pursues sweetness and definition through controlled filtration and bypass.
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You'll need
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AeroPress valve cap Required
A valved cap that replaces the AeroPress stock cap to stop dripping, hold water for longer steeps, or build back-pressure for espresso-style shots. Common models: AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap, Fellow Prismo, Joe Presso (for a true espresso shot, the Prismo’s pressure valve).
Recommended AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap · Fellow Prismo · Joe Presso
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Kruve Sifter Required
The Kruve Sifter is a set of stackable sieves that sort ground coffee by particle size. Sifting out the finest fines and the largest boulders narrows the grind distribution, so more of the bed extracts at the same rate — a cleaner, more even, more repeatable cup. Kruve is the best-known coffee sifter, with interchangeable screens across a range of micron sizes.
Recommended Kruve Sifter
Parameters
- 18 g
- Coffee
- 170 g
- Water
- 1:9.4
- Ratio
- 84 °C
- Temp
- 6 medium-coarse
- Grind
- 1:10
- Total
- ~170 ml
- Yield
What is 6/10 on your Comandante C40 or 1Zpresso? Gota turns it into clicks
Method
1:10 · totalBefore you brew
- 1 Pre-fill the server with 70g of water at 50°C.
- 2 Sift out the fines and blow away the loose chaff.
- 3 Fit the Flow Control cap with 2 paper filters.
- 4 Add 18g of grounds.
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Pour 1 / 50:0025s
Pour 100g gently. Let it steep.
+100g→ 100g Fill gently 84°C -
Swirl 2 / 50:2522s
Stir north-south twice, then west-east twice. Let it steep.
5s -
Prepare 3 / 50:473s
Insert the plunger to create a vacuum seal.
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Press 4 / 50:5020s
Press gently with the weight of your hand.
20s -
Done 5 / 51:10
Press complete.
Notes
Grinder
Comandante Trailmaster x25 w/ Tigershark burrs, 31 clicks, sifted at 200µm
Original source
Recipe by Némo Pop, 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.
