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  • My two main methods are either brewing in the Aeropress but with half the amount of water, or using an espresso, as others already mentioned.

    The one thing on my bucket list of things to try is “recursive iced coffee”:

    • use the avove method to make iced coffee
    • freeze to ice cubes
    • make iced coffee with coffee ice cubes

    I made some coffee cubes before and used them with an oat milk infusion? Drink? Whatever you’re supposed to call it, and that turned out very tasty











  • Beside the convenience of machine-brewed coffee I found the aeropress to be an extremly forgiving brewer. I can’t remember ever making bad coffee with it (though I’m a taste barbarian, I enjoy strong flavors, but fine nuances are lost to me, so YMMV). As such my “recipe” is dirt-simple an can be done before having coffee (that circular dependency is always a problem with other methods).

    • I have that Fellow Prismo thingie, so need to mess around with brewing inverted
    • I usually add a paper filter to the metal filter, but more for cleanup reasons than taste
    • 15g beans, finely ground but not quite espresso-fine
    • Quickly add 100ish grams of boiling water
    • stirr
    • fill up to 250g water total
    • put on the plunger
    • wait about 2-3 minutes, plunge & enjoy

    For my friend, or if I’m feeling the occasionly sweet tooth myself, I do basically the same just with 125g total water (can be added in one go, I only stirr after 100 above as it is easier and less prone to make a mess if you are too vigorous) The “missing” 125g of water are then replaced with 125g of milk (or a milk-replacement of your choice) + 5g (or 10 for the espially sweet toothed) sugar that receive the nanofoamer treatment

    But as I said the Aeropress is extremly forgiving, you can diverge from the recipe quite a bit and still get good coffee. Sometimes I’m distracted and only come back to plunge after 8 minutes and the coffee is still good. Spoon was too full and now its 16g? No need to pick beans out of the grinder, that’ll work too. If you have a feeling for measurements (I don’t) you can just eyball that stuff and not sweat the details