AeroPress Coffee Maker - The Original 3-in-1 Coffee Brewer for Home, Travel & Adventure

If you want good coffee without the extra nonsense, the AeroPress is it. It’s super lightweight, which makes it perfect for small kitchens, travel, camping, or even tossing in a bag for work. No bulky machine taking up counter space...this stores easily in a drawer or cabinet. It’s also really easy to use. No buttons, no confusing setup, no waiting around. You can make a great cup of coffee in just a few minutes, and cleanup is basically a quick rinse. Honestly, it’s hard to mess this one up. What I love most is that it’s all in one. You can make French press–style coffee, pour-over, or an espresso-like shot with the same device. One tool, lots of options.Bottom line: Lightweight, easy to use, easy to store, and consistently good coffee. If you like things simple and effective, the AeroPress is a no brainer.

I have always enjoyed coffee. My everyday coffee maker is my Keurig 2.0 Coffee maker. I have always enjoyed using my Keurig. Its fast, convenient, and easy to use. There are lot of great coffees out there for it, but from time to time I will find a coffee out there that is not available in K-cups. Prior to having my Keurig, I had a regular drip coffee maker, but after I got my Keurig, I got rid of my regular drip maker.About a year ago I purchased a French press because I found you could make cold brew coffee with them, and I started doing that because my wife likes it. After making the cold brew for a while I decided to make some regular coffee from some Folders Black silk that we had left over from a trip we took. I really enjoyed using the French press because you could make hot or cold brew coffee. The coffee always tasted good to me, but the major drawback for me was that you would get some of the fine ground coffee in your mug. That happens from time to time with my Keurig as well. That got me to wondering if there was a better way to make coffee.So, I had started researching different coffee makers. I had always wanted to try a pour over, but then I found the AeroPress. The product description said that it made smooth coffee without an acidic taste, and it had no grit. So, I was interested. So, I decided to purchase the AeroPress along with the paper filters. I followed the AeroPress's instructions. They were easy. The coffee scoop that comes with it scoops the perfect amount of coffee. The coffee that it made was awesome. The taste was smooth and there was no grit.The cool thing about the AeroPress is that you can make coffee, espresso, and cold brew. After I made a cup of coffee, I then tried to make espresso. The espresso was great. I haven't tried to make cold brew with it yet.There are only a few downsides to the AeroPress to me.1. It only makes one cup of coffee at a time. However, it does make it really fast. I am the only one who drinks coffee in our house, so this isn't a problem for me.2. It can be a little difficult to put the coffee into the AeroPress. I believe there is a funnel accessory you can buy for it. I would recommend you purchase one.In conclusion if you are wanting to make a better cup of coffee, I would highly recommend the AeroPress.

I worked at a coffee shop for over five years and was a finalist in a number of regional barista competitions from California to Missouri.So I have a thing for good coffee, which starts with the roast and the purity and temperature of the water. But when it comes to extraction, very few, if any, brewing devices put so much control into the hands of the brewer.With this brewer, I have made some of the best cups of coffee I've ever had. You can achieve the quality of brewed coffee as with a classic pour-over but in a much more convenient and durable system.It's faster than a crappy Mr. Coffee, easier and more forgiving than a pour over like the Hario V60 and more durable than anything else I've ever used, besides of course a Turkish coffee brewing pot.Sometimes you're just too busy to brew a coffee everyday (even it is does only take 2-3 minutes from start to finish). Or perhaps you hate being stuck with the crappy coffee found at your office. The versatility to brew a regular cup of coffee or an "espresso extract" is awesome. On a busy week, I will brew a heavy concentrated brew of coffee and store in a vacuumed, air-free, glass Porto bottle. When I want to make a coffee, I simply pour a measure of the coffee extract into a cup, cut with either iced or hot water and enjoy my quick, dead simple brew.When traveling, this thing really shows off. If you travel and hate using hotel coffee and coffee makers, take this on your next trip, use the in-room coffee maker to heat up bottled water and use the Aerobie's coffee cavity to hold your coffee safe for travel. You can then brew the best cup of coffee you'll ever have at a hotel. This goes for camping, business travel or backpacking.The whole system breaks down to really only two parts, the plunger and the reservoir with filters. You can leave the rest behind (scoop, funnel, stirrer) if you want. Learn where your coffee grinds should reach vertically in the brewer and free pour your coffee, stir the brewing grinds with the spoons or straws made available in most hotel rooms.Cleaning the system is easy, just rinse and air-dry or wipe dry. I reuse my paper filters 2-4 times and see little to no difference in taste or consistency. This a company that makes permanent metal disk filters for this brewer that many people love. I am reluctant to use them as a metal disc will not remove any extra oils left in darker roast coffee but some people like the flavor of the oils so to each their own.Bottom line, this is the perfect brewer for the everyday coffee drinker, the business traveler, college guy/gal stuck in a dorm room, tiny New York apartment goer or backpacker. Get it, use it and love it.

First thing is first. I am a coffee snob.I have edited this review a few times. After a few years, I have come to the conclusion that this is a really good product. I'm leaving the review intact because it kind of shows the evolution and the learning curve that exists with this product.Typically, I find that most "bad" coffee is simply stale coffee. When I grind my own beans, I find that after a few days, they start losing their flavor. And after a week, they have started to pick up a card-board like flavor.I taste tested this product in a couple of ways. I just had a buddy over, and we had a coffee taste-test party.I typically prepare my coffee one of two ways. I either use the do-it-yourself coffee pod that you can get from Keurig or, if I have company, I will use a french press. For the purpose of this taste test, we did it both ways, And then we made some with this contraption in two different ways. I used a fine grind (just shy of an espresso grind) for one, and we used my preferred coarser grind for the other. In all, we tasted four different cups of coffee.1. French Press2. Keurig Machine3. Aeropress with fine grind4. Aeropress with coarse grindWe used my favorite coffee bean for this test. I was going to use a commercial bean (Illy). I will explain why we ended up not using Illy at the end of my review. The bean we used was a freshly roasted grade 1 Ethiopian Yrgacheffe.I made sure I made a couple of cups of coffee using the Aeropress before we began this test to make sure I had gotten the hang of it. My conclusion based on these two cups of coffee was that 1) I needed to add a little bit of water (Americano) to the Aeropressed coffee to achieve my desired strength and 2) I needed to use a more robust bean in order to achieve any kind of flavor (hence the reason I didn't use the Illy beans).Now don't get me wrong. Illy makes a good coffee bean, and I usually get my cans of Illy coffee still relatively fresh. They are, in my opinion, one of the best mass produced coffee beans on the market.I brewed one cup of coffee in each of the four methods. I then poured a small amount into an espresso mug and labeled them 1, 2, 3, and 4. I wrote down what each one was on a separate piece of paper so that it would be a blind taste test. My buddy did the same for me. And then we sat down and tasted them.My preferences, in order:1. The french press. I had actually never done a bind taste test with the french press before, but there may have been some bias here because I could immediately tell that it was french pressed. It had all of the vaguely sweet, earthy tones that I love so much about Ethiopian Yrgacheffe coffee. It was pure bliss. Ten out of ten.2. The Keurig. There is a pretty big gap in flavor between the french press and the Keurig, but the Keurig still retained much of the flavors that I love about Ethiopian Yrgacheffe. They were just more faint. Eight out of ten.3. Aeropress Course Grind. I will submit that the result was a very strong yet mellow coffee, but it was missing all of the character. The earthy tones were missing. It tasted like a generic cup of coffee. It was good, but it was nothing to write home about. Six out of ten.4. Aeropress Fine Grind. Definitely over-extracted. Very bitter. I stirred for about 10 seconds, so it did not steep too long. To be truthful, most espressos taste over extracted to me, so this was not a surprise. It's the reason why I prefer a coarser grind. This cup of coffee tasted like someone put cardboard shavings into the grounds prior to pressing. I would not call this undrinkable, but if someone served it to me in a restaurant, I'd ask for water instead. Three out of ten.I'm not yet concluding that this was a waste of money. I think there is a high likelihood that the paper filter could be the reason why there was a serious lack of flavor using this contraption, so I'm going to try to order a metal filter for it. I can't think of any other reason, logically speaking, why the coffee would have turned out so bad other than the fact that it uses a paper filter. The only time I ever use a paper filter is on the rare occasions where I use a pre-made Keurig pod, and I typically don't like the flavor of them. I always figured that it was because the grounds were stale, but I have not ruled the paper out as a possible culprit.If I find out that the metal filter changes the flavor for the better, I will come back and update my review. However, at this point, I have to recommend a french press if someone wants a good cup of coffee. It's not any harder to use, and it's just as easy to clean.EDITI purchased one of the wire mesh screens to see if that would improve the flavor of the coffee. It did make a significant difference; however, I still don't think that the cup of coffee I made was as good as a traditional french press.The one big disadvantage with a french press is that there is sediment at the bottom of your cup....

Very simple to use, simple clean up. The taste quality of the coffee was actually better than my Kcup coffee maker. It is more or less a portable, plastic french press. If I were a 1 cup a day, this could replace my routine coffee maker but I bought it specifically for travel. It could also be perfect for small spaces or occassion coffee drinkers. I was concerned about pressing hot coffee over a travel mug but found this to be very sturdy. The max brew capacity is about a 10 ounce cup with 1 scoop of coffee using the provided scoop.