AeroPress recipe and dial-in guide

This is where Cuplift starts a new AeroPress brewer before it knows anything about the coffee. Once you add a bean, the recipe adjusts for roast, process and altitude, then learns from what you taste.

Grind is in microns because a click means something different on every grinder. 600µm is about 20 clicks on a Comandante C40. Filter: Paper (x2).

Steps

1. Rinse filter
2. Add 17g coffee at 600µm
3. Bloom 50ml, strong swirl
4. Pour remaining 240ml at 90°C at 0:30
5. Gentle stir x8 at 0:50
6. Start pressing at 1:30
7. Finish by ~2:00

The AeroPress is an immersion brewer, which decides which changes are open to you.

• Grind leads, but steep time is almost as direct — and it has no side effects to untangle.
• Stirring speeds extraction and stirs up fines; agitate less if the cup turns muddy.
• Temperature and water minerals come after grind and time.

Whatever the problem, change one thing per brew. The dial-in guide covers the order to fix things in.

• Why does my coffee taste bitter? How to fix it
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• Why does my coffee taste dry, chalky or astringent?
• Coffee too strong or heavy? How to lighten it