AeroPress Grind Coffee
What is the best coffee for AeroPress?
The AeroPress is one of our favourite brewing methods because it allows you to experience a coffee’s flavour profile in its purest form, making it ideal for speciality coffee beans. Once you’ve mastered the method (check out our blogs for guidance), you can begin to experiment with different brewing times and water temperatures. You can also use a paper or metal filter, for example, which will change the mouthfeel of your coffee.
Iron and Fire’s speciality beans offer a variety of incredible flavours that can be extracted from coffee. They can unearth even the most complex notes from some of our particularly niche small-batch coffees.
See our suggestions below for the best coffee for AeroPress machines.
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Colombian Jazz Speciality Blend
Chocolate, Caramel, Cherry From £6.25 -
Roaster’s Choice Speciality Coffee
Chocolate, Spice, Fruit, Floral, Nut, Caramel From £8.22 -
House Blend Speciality Coffee
Full Bodied, Chocolate, Nut, Caramel From £6.25 -
Santa’s Bean Speciality Blend
Chocolate, Spice, Orange, Raisin From £7.90 -
Peruvian speciality coffee Lima
Milk Chocolate, Almond, Lemon From £6.50 -
Tutti Frutti Speciality Blend
Complex, Red Fruits, Syrup From £7.75 -
El Salvador San Ernesto Honey
Complex, Dark Chocolate, Lime From £7.25 -
Papua New Guinea Elimbari
Apple, Chocolate, Treacle From £8.45 -
Severn Blend Speciality Coffee
Full Bodied, Chocolate, Spice, Caramel From £7.25 -
Choc A Bloc Speciality Blend
Milk Chocolate, Caramel, Smooth From £8.45 -
Mombasa Twilight Speciality Blend
Full Bodied, Chocolate, Floral, Berry From £8.45 -
The Dark Side Speciality Blend
Full Bodied, Cacao, Tobacco, Treacle From £6.70 -
Honduras Liquidámbar
Chocolate, Nutmeg, Orange Zest From £6.95 -
Winter’s Bean Speciality blend
Full Bodied, Chocolate, Hazelnut From £7.35
The Best Coffee for the AeroPress Machine
The intended flavours of a particular coffee depend on the area the coffee bean has grown in, the plant species, the processing technique and the roasting profiles applied. However, the brewing method significantly affects the result and your tasting experience. Coffee brewed using Aeropress delivers a very light and clean cup that is silky in texture. The technique brings out complex flavours and aromas, which makes it ideal for brewing speciality coffee.
The Aeropress method is well suited to speciality coffee beans as it brings through some of the most complex flavours and aromas whilst maintaining the body, which otherwise could be muddier if, for example, brewed using the French press method. One way to find the perfect coffee for Aeropress is to consider the taste profile. Terms such as light, clean and bright are three good descriptors to remember when coffee shopping for this method. Another way to find the best coffee for Aeropress is to look at the more generalised roasting terms commonly used, such as light or dark roasted. Medium and dark roasted coffees with balanced acidity and the entire body work better with espresso machines than AeroPress. So, when choosing coffee for your AeroPress, aim for something that may say lightly roasted, medium roasted, bright and complex. This is an excellent place to start and will deliver the optimum brew for this method.
The Optimal Coffee Grind for AeroPress Machine
When brewing your coffee using the AeroPress machine, it is essential to correct your coffee grind. Here at Iron & Fire, we recommend that the grind has a consistency comparable to table salt; when looking at a coffee grinding chart, this is measured as a medium-fine grind. Each coffee grind will be around 0.5mm in diameter and placed between the fine espresso grind and the rougher grind used in French press coffee, which is a little smoother than sand. Not sure how to get the perfect grind for your AeroPress coffee? Our coffee experts can grind your coffee beans to ensure you get the perfect coffee grind.
History of the Aeropress Machine
Invented by the coffee enthusiast Alan Adler, the AeroPress was a brewing method unique to anything the coffee industry had seen. Adler aimed to reduce the bitterness of his daily coffee, and he could do this by limiting the brewing time. Inspired by an espresso machine concept, the AeroPress swiftly pushes water through the puck, taking advantage of human pressure instead of the electricity and levers that the espresso machine uses.
