As an avid backpacker and backcountry enthusiast from the caffeine soaked streets of the northwest, I have searched high and low for an easy way to make great coffee away from the conveniences of home.
Every so often someone will ask me to help them pick a French Press. Of all the coffee equipment decisions to make, selecting a french press (aka press pot) is the easiest.
This coffee brewer guide is meant to assist buyer to choose the ideal single cup coffee brewer for individual use. All coffee brewers are capable of making good coffee but not all of them are designed for single cup brewing.
As much as a I love the coffee shops here in Seattle, sometimes I just want to meet up with friends and family at home. I still want the coffee though.
Learn the basics and the necessity for keeping your home coffee equipment clean. Ryan Jacobs covers cleaning of the French Press, Automatic Drip and home espresso machine.
We can't stress this one enough: a clean French Press is vital to good tasting coffee. Fortunately, cleaning a French Press isn't difficult and only takes a few minutes.
Coffee fanatics and connoisseurs maintain that French Press coffee is the best way to experience the daily grind. French Press coffee is a very simple way to achieve an extremely rich and robust cup of coffee.
Earlier this year, I posted an article titled Buying a French Press - Picking the Right One. I isolated the only three variables that I felt were necessary to make a purchase decision.
The Clever Dripper is a new individual cup brewing device that uses the full immersion method of a French press and has a super clean finish due to a paper filter, or reusable cloth filter.
Remember your first day of school? It may have been quite the emotional event to be separated from your parents and surrounded by strangers for hours. This situation is very similar to the college student spoiled on quality coffee heading into his/her first office job.
It's been years since I wrote the Press Pot Tutorial. Since then I've developed a checklist of steps to take to improve the taste of French Press coffee.