Rediscovering the AeroPress

The Coffee that came in from the cold

Do you have an AeroPress?

Do you know when and why you bought it? If you do, can we ask you another question: Do you know exactly where it is?

If you’re like us, you’ve been through all or most of the coffee-making paraphernalia – the dripper, the French press, the pour-over, the Bialetti, the espresso machine and, the AeroPress – except you never really used the AeroPress, and it quickly ended up in the back of the cupboard.

This all changed for us over the summer. We were queuing up for drinks at a crew food station in a summer festival. It was breakfast time, and we’d opted for tea, because, well, you know, festival crew coffee.

Standing in front of us at the hot water station was a high-viz wearing gentleman who was carefully filling up… his AeroPress. “I’d rather have one half decent cup of coffee, rather than multiple cups of the bad stuff” he said, in answer to our questions. An AeroPress at a Festival. Genius!

“I always take the AeroPress camping” said Dalton Greene of Limerick’s uber cool Rift Coffee. We were there to ask him about the fact that no fewer than three members of the Rift team were attending the AeroPress championships in Dublin. We wanted to know what they were doing right. Yes, the AeroPress is dead handy, but does it make great coffee at home? We asked the experts.