A DIFFERENT AEROPRESS RECIPE: A New World of Flavor 

Please litter the comments with your experience using this Aeroprecipe! and, leave a like on the video if you're so inclined. all the likes, subs, comments, etc, help loads. thank you!!! EDIT: To go ahead and get ahead of the eventual ill thought out critique: efficiency accusation: if a lower yield cup is less efficient, then what are your thoughts on espresso? I say in the video that you can scale the recipes. You have 20g of a 6 month off roast coffee. Yes, you could make a 20g to 320g pourover and not enjoy it. OR you can be happy with a smaller yield and enjoy it. Or, you could go even smaller and do espresso. This argument doesn't hold much water. I understand breaking a paradigm is difficult, but let's try to! These are completely scalable. you don't need 30g. This is only if you want a bigger cup. The idea with coffee brewing is the brew the best possible cup. The difference is so minute when scaling I probably should not have even noted that as most won't detect it with this type of extraction. Caffeine should not be the goal of a tasty beverage. if it is, then you should be doing like 1:20 ratios on your pourovers with fine grinds. But, it would taste bad. The goal is taste. This is a great option for late day brews, salvaging old coffee, decaf coffee, defective coffee, etc. Give it a try. The arguments don't really hold water but what does hold water is if you simply don't like the taste after trying some iterations at different grind sizes. give it a try and THEN critique the hell out of it ;)

Just a tip for anyone doing the inverted method - I cannot stress enough that you should not push out the access air uncapped like shown in the video. It's all fine and dandy until it isnt. As many people have unfortunately experienced (myself included), aeropresses have a tendency to have a "loose spot" over time. This will cause the plunger to push up suddenly and aggressively, leaving you with a kitchen and ceiling splattered with coffee grounds at best, and scaling you along the way at worst.

I added more than the brew weight of water after the brew but all my coffee friends tell me I'm dilutional.

I'm a proper noob, my first venture into proper coffee started literally 4 days ago when I bought an AeroPress, hand grinder and a lb of beans, they're dark roast so I'm trying any recipe I can find which mentions dark roasts, I've been blown away by the results so far, even better than I expected, most I've used so far is 17g/220g beans/water ratio so I feel I need to give one of these recipes with more beans a shot too, I think I'm going to be using your channel a lot!

In regards to the inverted method, I've found that you can flip it over onto a cup without putting the cup awkwardly on top first. You just have to do it quickly and with confidence. The Aeropress can sense your fear.

No offense but someone NEEDS to make a Hance Ledrick channel ASAP

Wow! I just tried this with a decaf that I really didn’t like at all and had left for over 3 months. It was superb, really sweet and balanced, which it had never been before, only bitter and rubbery. Lance you are a feckin’ legend!

Nothing makes me more happy than when Lance launches a recipe right before I’m about to make my morning cup. Aeropress is in my hand…let’s do this. Cheers Lance ☕️

I just got the aeropress and i absolutely love it!!! The best brewer ever!! I got the aetomatic app . So many recipes and grind sizes for every grinder made basically. Great video lance

Finally I see a video that prioritizes the flavor of the coffee over the numbers!

The best about aeropress is the flexibility, you can do whatever you want with it. But even then I'm astonished by the difference between my recipe and yours. Being used to Brazilian strong coffee, I've always targeted a fauxpresso, so I do 30g of coffee, ground for the coarse end of espresso, 90g water, 2:30, and no dilution. The metal filter helps me push it all through. And it tastes fantastic. Short, but with a thick body, and very fruity, way more than I get on the espresso machine.

I'm sure like many the aeropress was my first at home speciality coffee maker. I'll always love it

awesome, this recipes helped me with some of the coffees which I usually do not like. Especially here in Portugal were the majority of coffee beans is rather low quality and almost always way over roasted. Thanks a lot for this, a live saver video.

Used your recipe for a bag of coffee 5 months old. Amazing taste. I would have expected a cup like this to be in my local coffee shop. Great way to use up old beans. Thank you!

This is fantastic. I've been getting so much sour yield lately and I'd fully given up on this old Trader Joe's can. But when I saw recipe 1, I knew I had to try. I'm getting a nice, sweet cup with a little tinge of acidity. Only had to use 80g of bypass water which was plenty. Any more would have been super watery, Watching videos like this makes me realize how complex the world of coffee is and how little I know. Yes, there are only a few levers you realistically can pull to impact results, yet the unique combination of variables feeing into the formula can vastly impact which levers you should pull in a given scenario - and can often be completely contradictory to what you'd THINK was the right way to do it - and this is no different. Makes me really want to dive in more and learn!

Spot on, the first recipe is basically how I manage when I visit my relatives

I tried this recipe with some old coffee I had this morning - it was like drinking something totally different - delicious, light, no bitterness. Thank you Lance!

I have been using an aeropress since Jan of 2020. I love it, It's doesn't make expresso but everything else it's great. It's the only coffee maker I use and use it daily. I been making coffee the same way everyday. I love it, but I really should explore what different recipes.

Tried Recipe #2 with my Aeropress with a very high quality decaf bean. Recipe #2 added a lot of body, removed any astringency but I was surprised by how much more acidic the coffee tasted. I had to add 100g water to reduce the acidity note, which was a bit too strong for me. Sometimes I found with what I normally would do the coffee would taste a bit thin. I was specifically looking for a bit more body for my decaf. It's crazy how brewing the coffee (same bean same bag) a different way can drastically change the taste!!

Perfect! I never thought I could get such a great coffee out of those old coffee beans a friend gave me... Thank you!

Loved that you distinguishe between roast levels and also gave grind size referenced for all main grinders ☺️ super helpful!

+1 for the inverted method. I find that doing it this way, the fines are not clogging the paper because they get suspended during the flip and then get filtered by the bed instead of the filter as the water they are suspended in gets pushed through, forming a layer on top of the coarser grounds. Bonus point here is that this means not all of the water is percolated through all of the fines, resulting in a more even extraction. I just love the Aeropress because it takes next to 0 skill & attention (compared to pour over) to get a really good cup and the cleanup is also a breeze. Perfect for my morning coffee.

Tried it. It works. Thanks.

Wow, that recipe made a great coffee! Brilliant!

Really enjoyed this one Lance. Thank you.

Just used this recipe to make a surprisingly good cup of coffee with a dark roast from Home Goods gifted to me by a well meaning friend. Would have just sat on the shelf or regifted but this lets me make some tasty brews! Thanks

Lance can’t say how happy I am right now. I was away during the holiday and let a bag of coffee “go stale”. I was going to throw it away in the compost but instead I got an amazing cup!

I love the exploration! The big takeaway for me is that there's a lot of room for experimentation to find targets in brewing that is very different than what convention might say is "good", leading to entirely different beverages to discover and enjoy. It's an expansion and exploratory mindset that I can definitely get behind. Thanks, Lance!

Tried this on decaf beans I'm not particularly enjoying (looking at you, Dunkin'), and it works! I could even drink it americano style. Also a bonus for me that doing this will allow me to use up the beans quick.

Wow, the results are way better than I expected! This is such a nice way to get more out of coffee that I’ve received through gifts that aren’t my usual taste. This recipe made a very nice cup from some older Honduras coffee that started to go stale in my kitchen. I normally go with super fresh, lightly roasted specialty as a pour over but it’s stressful trying to get the most out of it using the typical methods. This recipe worked out great. Definitely keeping it in my repertoire. Thanks!

Thank you Lance for an awesome recipe that helps me use up those bags in the back of my shelf. Super thankful to have a great recipe to use with these!

I see aeropress, I come

Great way to use off coffees, and decafs. Thanks Lance!

Finally! I've found another great coffee channel besides Mr. Hoffman's. Thanks for this!

excited to try this recipe- nice video

Really cool! Looking forward to trying this for a half-caf experience

Such an exciting video for me, as I AM the kind of person who too often owns some of forgotten coffee on a shelf. Thank You!🎉

Can’t wait to try this. Love the demonstration of some of these concepts. Afternoon strength to brew with low quality coffee. Thanks for helping on our flavour journey

I've thrown away countless bags that I could not bring myself to drink simply because I could not figure out a brewing method that I liked for them, and this worked great for me!

This is honestly brilliant.

Just tried recipe #1 and it was excellent! Totally different from my usual aeropress method. Thank you!

Just brewed up a competition decaf I bought in Slovenia in 2022! It really brought life back into that coffee! Thanks for the tip.

I love the aeropress as a brewer I could always get good brews with even with a not so great grinder and a non-pouring kettle. I recommend it to people as a way to get great coffee at home with somewhat minimal investment. My more recent go-to is like 17:230 inverted, boiling water, flip immediately, press at 2 minutes. Easy to remember, not a lot of involvement, I don't get a spoon dirty. My go-to for a while was Paulina Miczka's 2017 world aeropress championship recipe, which uses 35g of coffee and 84 degree water, then dilutes after. These are reminiscent of that to me. Looking back through the winners, Lance's first recipe is very similar to the 2016 winner, Filip Kucharczyk. Another thing I notice is that every winner since 2015 has done it inverted. It seems like now the WAC rules cap the ground coffee amount at 18g, so I would imagine that's why everyone we see now uses 18g.

I've been trying to drink black coffee this week and changing a variable each morning to make it not taste sour with no success. I tried your light roast alternative and was surprised that the coffee was much more tolerable. Thanks for sharing and I will keep trying to make that perfect cup for me!

I love that you showcased a high dose, course grind recipe. I typically brew a very high ratio coffee on a finer grind but have tried some Aeropress Championship recipes similar to this recipe and they came out shockingly tasty. Like, different tasty too. I love doing a brew like this occasionally and will probably do so more now with the knowledge it’s useful for old coffee.

This is an amazing recipe. Just used it on some decaf that’s a couple months old. It brought out tons of sweetness! 😮 Thanks Lance!

After viewing the video last night, I was excited to try this with the remainder of a bag of Vietnamese robusta that I had forgotten about in the back of the cupboard. I measured that I had 15 g of beans, so that made the ratio easy. I was really surprised by the result. The coffee was very pleasant. Great body. The off-putting flavours that sometimes happen with robusta (but it was relatively good robusta) weren't noticeable. I actually said to my mom who was sitting nearby " I can't believe this coffee tastes this good." Thank you.

DUDE that's good! I've had some decaf single-dosed in freezer containers for late-night flat whites and have to throw some syrup in there to help it out, this tastes fantastic black

Had some old dark roast decaf I wanted to get rid of, used the first recipe and it was really tasty. Thank you !

Great information Lance!

I've tried this recipe with 93C water, 12g of grounds, and a *very careful* stir and it brought out fairly intense chocolate and nut aromas from regular supermarket coffee. Great stuff! I've also tried Tetsu Kasuya's Devil Hybrid Method with an Aeropress and that gives a very sweet cup with the same regular supermarket coffee. The only problem is it's hard to wet all the coffee when it's all the way down in the cylinder with just 60ml of water, but I think one of those cheap honeycomb pattern protein shaker inserts might help with that. Something to keep in mind for the next experiment tomorrow morning.

Perfect timing for this video! I have a jar of stale decaf to use up! Makes for a delicious cup!

A decent grinder and an Aeropress is really all ya need for a lifetime of coffee happiness.

Just tried this recipe (the first one) this morning with a medium roast coffee I wasn't a huge fan of. Best cup I've had in weeks. Excited to try these again!

Thank you Lance.

Tried this today with some medium roast coffee I bought recently that was a little too dark for me. Completely transformed this coffee. Thank you!

Just brewed with the first recipe for the first time this morning...it really surprised me! Scenario of old bag I just need to get through, and dang. It's texture and flavor is GREAT! Thanks for sharing, Lance! Excited to play with this some more

Used a coffee deemed "boring" by my partner and I during a pour over tasting. It came ALIVE in the first recipe here. It gave nutty and bready flavor! Loved it ☺️ I use the inversion method but typically grind finer, less coffee, and longer. I get the reasons for the changes you used, and it's great. Thank you!!

just tried the light roast recipe on my kplus- thanks Lance you are a great help

Works well with grocery store coffee roasts too! Thanks Lance.

I have a decaf coffee that always had that typical aftertaste with PourOver. Thank you very much Lance. With your recipe you can drink it very well.

I actually have a friend that loves the coffee my Aeropress can make, but he won't have it anymore as he can't fall asleep after drinking any coffee, so this might help with that 😆 It could be a good recipe for decaf which is very bland. Can't wait to give it a try! Thank you Lance, very excited for this!

Well I tried it Lance and I think it's bloody marvellous.

I have the prismo head for my aeropress and slowly came to a similar recipe, but I've definitely taken some notes. I use a coarse grind, 18 grams of coffee and 60 grams of water at 90c. I'll try your numbers and see if I can get more out of lighter roasts. Thanks a lot for this video.

Tried this with a decaf where I couldn't get the process taste to shift with other recipes or methods, and it worked like a dream. Chocolate and caramel with body, but without the weird decaf taste. I can finally enjoy an evening coffee! Thanks for sharing this 🙏

I tried recipe 1 on old dark-roasted coffee. Worked brilliantly.

I strangely had two "not great" bags of coffee in ny cupboard that I was slowly sipping through but not enjoying, this has tremendously elevated both, thank you!

I'm in Guadalupe right now - picked up a batch of locally grown coffee that was roasted darker than I prefer. Using recipe #1, it became very drinkable. Thanks so much!

I'm so used to high extraction brews, going for low extraction and high TDS then doing a bypass to balance is a fun project to play with, thanks! This makes a TON of sense for decaf, great nod!

WOAH. Just made the first recipe and it was leagues above anything I've made on my aeropress before😋. I really appreciate these recipes you've shared for getting the most out of suboptimal gear / roasts. I can live with being less efficient dose-wise if it means I can A) use beans I can get locally and B) stick with the gear I already have. For other people with the Knock Aergrind grinding at a 3:1 got me in the ballpark.

This vid is actually perfect for me because I have a 1kg bag of months old lavazza coffee which I've been wondering what to do with now that I've discovered the world of freshly roasted coffee. Just tried the first recipe and the coffee was actually decent. thanks!

Interesting idea and it totally makes sense. I often intentionally under extract darker roasts when brewing pour over for similar reasons. Increase grind size and the amount of coffee to reduce contact time while dropping the temp just a bit.

Fantastic cup of coffee, thank you, for the recipe, and the braveness to do it differently, and the correctness, to state where you get the idea from :)

Very nice work on the recipes!! I used recipe 2 and it gave me a cup of light roast that I actually enjoyed! I’m usually not a fan of light roast, so this gave me a way to enjoy some coffees I’ve bought to try and didn’t enjoy other ways

Ever since you introduced us to the sprover I’ve been brewing my aeropress with about a 1:9 ratio - I find it gets that “juicy” characteristic even from old coffees 👍 this recipe looks interesting! Will try!

Always love it when coffee vids make me go undust my trusty Aeropress. Thank you again for sharing your findings Lance :D I have a really cheap decaf coffee that I use for practicing latte art and just sip a flat white in the evening and it's usually a very dark roast so it's an ashy-smoky / dark chocolaty taste and surprisingly with the 1st recipe it almost tasted like licorice on the first sip and is closer to chocolate now with a hint of sweetness without all the unpleasant dark notes. Thanks for saving my old beans 🫡

Love this for dark roast. Not a fan of dark roast but some roasters idea of a medium is wild. Have been using this technique on the daily. Thanks!

this guy is amazing

I tried it on a dark roast decaf that I've been powering through. Yum!!

This is legitimately one of the coolest *and* most helpful coffee videos I’ve ever seen.

I received a large bag of over roasted coffee as a birthday present yesterday. Not my typical coffee choice... Now im excited to give this recipe a try!

I've come to terms with the fact I am just not a brewed coffee lover (drip, pourover, immersion, whatever). I like my espresso milk drinks--generally cortados and cappuccinos made with lighter-roasted speciality coffees. So after a long bit of searching and trying Aeropress recipes, I finally found this one, which makes the closest thing I'd been able to make at home to a coffee shop milk drink...until I finally got my Flair 58 recently. :) *20g coffee (fine or medium-fine grind) *70g water (85C) *130g heated milk (steamed/frothed/etc.) For the life of me, I can't find where I originally found the recipe, but I've been using it for 4 years now, so it's apparently lost to the sands of Internet time. But the original recipe was something like that. It was delicious, but my "cappuccino" would disappear too quickly. So I found that doubling it worked very well and fits nicely into my large collection of oversized (~16oz) coffee mugs. After lots of further inspiration online and experimentation, here's my final recipe: *40g coffee (not-quite-espresso grind, like #4-6 on my Baratza Encore with M2 burr upgrade) *Add 140g water @ 205F (depending on the coffee, sometimes I up this to 160 or even 220g if I want a higher extraction) *Stir for 30s *Brew inverted or with Prismo for 10m, swirling at 5m and 9m *Press moderately firmly, should end up about 30s (if you have to press too hard, you've ground too fine). I personally press all the way through the hiss *Add 260g of heated milk I've always wondered what this recipe ends up doing to the extraction. It's an insanely high dose (1:3.5), but the fine grind and long brewing time may overcome that to some extent--though chemistry does hit a limit (at some point, the rate of molecules dissolving into a solution slows down, plus the long brew time results in a loss of temperature further slowing extraction). I can't recall if the original recipe I found had the 10m brew time or if that was something I found in another recipe, but I do remember some mentions that if you're in a hurry, you can cut the brew time to 5m or even 1m and the difference isn't huge. But a 10m brew time works for my morning routine, so I just do that. Every now and then, I try other Aeropress recipes, but they just end up a little too weak to cut through the milk to make a milk-based drink. I can do a weaker brew and then add half and half (or, rarely, if the coffee is *amazing,* I can drink it black), but it just doesn't satisfy me like a pseudo-espresso does. My new Flair (and Bellman) knocks the socks off of the Aeropress for milk-based espresso drinks, though...

Thanks for your great recipe It worked, and yes allowed me to drink beans that otherwise will be fully wasted. I just did a minor mods. Putting the lid just after the stir, getting out the air and putting in the right position to wait the steep time.

I watched this when it came out, but just decided to try it for a light roast that I wasn't too excited about in my other brew methods, and wow, this is really good! Thank you for this recipe, I'll for sure be trying it on more coffees. It really highlights the acidity, but in a very pleasant way. My v60 brews just kept coming out astringent with this coffee, but this recipe made it very juicy and balanced.

This video taught me to not press through the hiss of air. I have been getting much better and consistent flavor since. Thank you.

Now I can enjoy a great cup of coffee thanks to you merci beaucoup 🙏

Thank you Lance, big decaffeinated coffee drinker here. I have a bag of beans that I'm not in love with that I'm definitely trying your second recipe on in the morning!

You just saved a couple of Kg of year-old coffee! Thank you Lance!

I normally stay away from recipes using 30 grams of coffee but I had some dark roast beans I wasn’t keen on so I gave this a try and W0W such a nice cup of coffee came out of this recipe! Thanks for sharing this

I only had Cafe Bustelo on hand but realllly wanted to give this a try. Recipe #1 obviously. Totally different cup of coffee and I didn't even bother with sugar! A+++ tips!

The initial 30:120 concentrate is actually really delicious! I didn't bother diluting. Maybe next time I'll "add to taste". Then I got the crazy idea to re-add water to the spent AP sitting in the sink. I slowly and firmly pulled the plunger out and added around 50 grams, waited a minute and pressed. Not bad at all! Skanky old dark roast is gone!

Hey an underextraction recipe! That’s pretty rare when most recipes is all about maximizing extraction. I was taught a similar technique to brew dark roast coffees with v60 to only extract the front of the coffee and that usually saves the dark roast from being too astringent. Worked decently with stale coffee too.

I was skeptical, but tried it with a really, really old coffee... And it taste great! And the fact that it's low on caffeine, I'm less concerned about drinking it at 3 p.m.

I tried or just out of curiosity and its possibly the best cup of decaf I have had yet using the aeropress. Only thing k changed was using the flow control cap.

loved the 2nd

Works quite well with the Pulsar, even without pressure. Got rid of 500g of dark roasted beans I was about to throw away but tasted quite nice. Thanks for the inspiration!

Aeropress is my go to for regular coffee. Like it much better than pour over

Best way to use up old coffee honestly. Just did a similar ish technique with my clever dripper (didn't have my aeropress on hand) and had a great cup with 5 months old coffee.

I've just tried your first recipe, with supermarket dark roast that I've got for christmas, you really came in clutch at the perfect moment, i dont like dark roasts, but it was very enjoyable, thank you Lance!

I made recipe number 1 with a 3 months old Burundi. I had great acidity and sweetness but it was empty, hollow and salty. Maybe the roast is to light, gonna try recipe 2 tomorrow! But overall it was way better than my normal brews with that coffee. Just 0 finish😂 as someone who likes their filter Coffee on the lower side of extraction this recipe just seems logical. Shame it wasn't discussed sooner!