AeroPress
George Stanica's AeroPress recipe, World AeroPress Championship 2024 (champion)
The AeroPress recipe George Stanica (Romania) brewed at the World AeroPress Championship 2024, and won it. It uses the valve to choose when the water steeps and when it drains. Part of the water goes straight into the cup at the end.
- Balance
Recipe by George Stanica , World AeroPress Championship 2024
Published
The numbers
- Brewer
- AeroPress, inverted
- Filter
- Aesir, 1x, rinsed
- Coffee
- 18 g
- Water
- 100 g
- Temperature
- 96°C
- Grind
- Comandante C40 MK4 (Red Clix) 58 clicks (870 µm)
- Ratio
- 1:5.6
Steps
- Add 18 g of coffee, without tamping.
- 0:00Bloom with 50 g of water for 6 seconds.
- Wait 30 seconds.
- Pour to 100 g over 6 seconds.
- Stir.
- Rinse the filter with hot water and discard it.
- 1:20Close the valve.
- Swirl gently. Swirl, flip onto the server.
- 1:35Press slowly over 30 seconds. Yield about 76-79 g.
- Add 54 g of hot water to the coffee. Top up to 130-135 g with water from the kettle.
- Add g of hot water to the coffee. Finish with 20-30 g of room-temperature soft water.
Tips
- A short, concentrated brew pressed at about 1:35, then diluted with hot and then cool water; the cool top-up brings it to drinking temperature fast.
