AeroPress Clear Red Coffee Press - All-in-One French Press, Pour-Over & Espresso Style Manual Brewer, 2 Min Brew for Less Bitterness, More Flavor, Small Portable Coffee Maker, Travel & Camping

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.

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.

This is probably the best coffee maker I’ve ever tried. Convenient, small, easy to make and coffee tastes amazing! I was always a French press and fresh beans type of guy, and I’m not sure what sorcery is involved but the coffee is less acidic, full flavored and there is no coffee grounds sediment. I would recommend an electric water kettle, boils water quick and makes the brewing process that much faster. AeroPress is a game changer. Well worth the price.

The AeroPress Original Coffee Press has become my preferred brewing method among several options I own, including a French press and a Moccamaster drip machine. While the French press delivers a robust, full-bodied cup and the Moccamaster provides consistent, high-quality drip coffee for larger batches, the AeroPress produces what I consider the superior taste overall. It yields a remarkably clean, smooth, and flavorful brew with virtually no bitterness or sediment. Qualities that surpass the others in my experience. The paper filter effectively removes fines and oils that can contribute to harshness in the French press, while the gentle pressure extraction highlights nuanced flavors more clearly than drip methods. Additionally, the AeroPress excels in speed and convenience. Brewing a single cup takes less than two minutes from start to finish, including grinding, steeping, and pressing. This makes it significantly faster than the French press (typically 5+ minutes of steeping) and quicker than waiting for a full Moccamaster cycle.

Stop what you're doing and make note of the date and time. Then, buy this. Your life will never be the same. I can't really think of anything to say that hasn't been said before, but this is basically the iPhone of the coffee world. It changes the game: 1) Easy to use, easy to clean, doesn't require elaborate rituals 2) Makes REALLY GOOD coffee, that can be easily adjusted to suit your taste 3) It's FREAKING CHEAP compared to owning a whole counter full of coffee appliances (trust me, I've been there) 4) It's portable. You can take it on trips, use it in hotels. You can take it camping, hunting, or fishing. You can take it to your office. In fact, I bought a second one for my office. This thing can make the best coffee anywhere you have boiling water. I'm going to keep this brief, because. Really. Just buy it already. The more time you spend reading this, the longer until Aeropress changes your life. UPDATED - Okay, it's been maybe 4 months since I bought my first Aeropress. I liked it so much I got another one for my office. The first Aeropress has had maybe 500 cups through it, the second maybe 100. The problem is, the seal on that first unit is totally, completely shot. You can't even really push down on it, or air burps past the plunger. Worse, sometimes hot coffee makes it past, and spurts out the top all over your hand. This started a few weeks ago and has gotten steadily worse. Googling, it looks like this does happen to people from time to time, and Aerobie do make a replacement part, but apparently you have to call and order it - it's not available on Amazon or Aerobee's website that I can find. I don't mind replacing a worn out part, but this thing is 4 months old. There's only two coffee drinkers in my house. Yeah, we both drink a lot of coffee, but there's two of us. Two people wearing out a coffee appliance in 3 or 4 months is kind of ridiculous. I don't know how much the seals cost, but I am probably going to ask for several. I'm not going to stop using this, and I do still believe it's the single best way to make coffee, but I am pretty disappointed. Hopefully this is an isolated incident. I'll report back in a few months when the second unit has a similar volume through it, or once the first one hits the next ~500 cups. In the meantime, I'm sadly deducting a star from my prior 5 star rating. UPDATED AGAIN - 6 months (roughly) later. The high-use unit at home is juuuuust starting to wear out again. It's been a little more robust this time but is still starting to wear. The lower-use unit at my office is still going strong on it's first rubber bit. It looks like the rubber part has a useful life of maybe 750-1,000 cups of coffee. For some people that's gonna be years maybe? For us, it's not very long. I still love this thing, I'm still gonna keep using it, but I'm still slightly disappointed. They should just bundle the rubber part with the filters. It's a little annoying to order, there is apparently one online source in Canada or you can call (yes, CALL on a phone - no online ordering) the manufacturer. Also, I want to share a useful tip. Once the rubber seal does start to wear, if you soak it in very hot water for a minute before use, it sometimes rejuvenates it and lets it seal. So, even once it's worn you can kind of still use it, but with an extra step that only works some of the time.

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 Press 2. Keurig Machine 3. Aeropress with fine grind 4. Aeropress with coarse grind We 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. EDIT I 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. This turns a lot of people off, and I will submit that it takes some getting used to. However, there is nothing on this planet that I have yet discovered that compares with the flavor of a french pressed bean that has been freshly roasted. I used a medium-course grind, and I steep for about twice as long as the 10 seconds recommended by the instruction manual. I make sure not to push out the very last of the water because that's likely where all of the overextracted bitterness lies. The end result was a good cup of very strong coffee. I'll even go so far as to say that when using the wire mesh screen instead of the paper, what comes out is good enough to drink without adding water. It's still not as good as the french press, though. I submit that it's about equal to the Keurig machine, though the flavors are much different. The Keurig machine is far easier to use. Plus, the cost of this thing with the additional $10 I had to spend on the wire mesh screen costs almost as much as a low-end Keurig. Therefore, I can't give it more than three stars. ANOTHER UPDATE: I'm providing another update an adding another star. The reason why is because once I learned that you cannot let your coffee steep for the ten seconds that the instruction manual recommends, I was able to produce some pretty good cups of coffee. It's still not as good as a french press, though. Plus, the price tag once you factor in $30 for the kit and another $10 for a metal screen is very steep. One can almost buy a Keurig machine for that price, and my french press, which makes better coffee, cost less than $15 even after I upgraded to a polycarbonate carafe. YET ANOTHER UPDATE: A couple of years have gone by, and I am finding myself using this more and more. Over time, I have gotten better at making a good cup of coffee with it. In fact, I got to the point where I was using this more than any of my other machines. Now, I have gotten to the point where a cup of coffee made with this is nearly as good or possibly even just as good as one that I French press. A big bonus for a lot of folks is that there is no sediment on the bottom of my cup. So, yes. I have gradually moved on and decided that this is an excellent product. I've increased my star total to 5 because it deserves it. The learning curve is difficult, but the eventual results are quite good.

Best coffee maker of all time. Making coffee is quick, easy, and perfect every time. Truly the best tasting coffee and easy to carry with you on any trip. Never get stuck with bad coffee again.

I bought the AeroPress to make coffee. What I got instead was inner peace, a renewed sense of purpose, and coffee so good it briefly made me believe I could forgive my enemies. First of all, let’s talk about the design. It looks like a science experiment you’d conduct at 6 a.m. in your pajamas, and yet—somehow—it works flawlessly. Friends will ask, “Is that a bike pump?” and you’ll smile knowingly, because you now possess forbidden coffee knowledge. The coffee itself? Absolutely unhinged in the best way. Smooth. Rich. Balanced. It tastes like the beans went to therapy and worked through their issues. I’ve made cups so good I had to sit down and think about my life choices. Why didn’t I buy this sooner? Who was I before this? Cleanup takes approximately 7 seconds. Seven. Seconds. I’ve spent more time emotionally preparing to do dishes than actually cleaning this thing. You press, you pop out a neat little coffee puck like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat, and suddenly you’re the kind of person who has their life together. It’s portable, durable, and forgiving. I’ve used it half-awake, pre-caffeine, operating on vibes alone—and it still delivered excellence. This device has more faith in me than I have in myself. In conclusion, the AeroPress didn’t just improve my coffee. It improved my mornings, my mood, and possibly my personality. If you don’t own one, I respect your journey—but just know, there is a better, more caffeinated version of you waiting on the other side. Buy it. Press it. Ascend.