Like my fellow enthusiasts my journey to bean obsession started with Jones. Unlike them however I have yet to try Intelligentsia. I am finishing my last bag from Jones, and will soon join my fellow geeks in coffee heaven with the perfect cup of morning brew achieved through the best beans and ingenious instrumentation.
My morning is usually met with "chocolaty goodness", the soupy concoction of water and freshly ground beans that awakens the senses and invokes feelings of morning bliss. This brew is achieved by the best invention ever: The Aeropress Coffee Maker by Aerobie (images attached). This contraption looks a bit questionable due to it's bong-like attributes, but the only thing bubbling in this tube is an awesome brew of coffee.
The grounds are placed in a beaker-like tube with a filter at the bottom, mixed with water, stirred and a foamy, soupy chocolaty goodness is the result. The plunger is then placed in the tube and manual pressure forces the concoction into my coffee cup, completing a condensed "espresso" that can be added with water or whatever combination of dairy product and sugar. I prefer water, straight black. And there you have it, the perfect cup to start my day.
Nice! The Aeropress is the coffee maker of choice!
ReplyDeleteGood call on the Aeropress. I was going to blog on that later on myself. Lotto and I were using normal cup top drip brewers for a while in the office. I had been using the same at home. A friend had been reading up on different brewers and saw the Aeropress. he tried one out, and after a while of him saying it made really good coffee, I bought one.
ReplyDeleteIt made a really fine cup of Joe. I brought it into work, and haven't gone back to any other way. I now have 2 at home, and it started a craze around work here.
So if you like a good strong or normal cup, get an Aeropress. There are a couple different ways to brew using it. I'll go into more detail on them in another post.
Thanks again Eric for bringing this up.
I love my Aeropress! After purchasing it several months ago, my drip coffee maker has been gathering dust.
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