How to brew gourmet coffee with a french press.

Steven talks about how to brew great coffee with a french press, including a brief history of the brewing method, and instructions on type of coffee and grind.

Hi welcome to coffee talk my name is Stephen and I’m going to talk to you a little bit today about how to properly make a French press and different grinds of coffee I was born and raised in brazil there’s some Brazilian coffee that I have for us today today’s quota

System of Archie and in Brazil they use primarily pour-over coffee so you to make your cut facing you you would use something like this you would put in however much coffee you want and the whole nation of Brazil they just pour coffee over at some of the news large

Like sieve sock kind of things so growing up I had really strong rich Brazilian coffee so when I came to the US in 2007 to free university I a lot of what was in the coffee pot was kind of sub par and I was looking for something

With a little more kick to it and that’s when I began to experiment with French press this is a French press and to properly make a French press are going to need a different kind of coffee grind thing your average either coffee pot or even espresso so actually if you want to

Purchase any beans of any kind you should be able to go to any coffee store and say hey can you grind this for I’m a very coarse grind for a French press and they’d be able to do so the drip coffee is like a medium grind and espresso like

This we’re with which we make lattes cappuccinos and frappes it’s gonna be the finest grind that most coffee shops it can make so for this for this purpose I have made I have brought a one liter French press I have ground some of our black hills

Gold to a very coarse grind to make this to make this pot of French press coffee and it’s going to be 18 grams to every 500 milliliters so I have 36 grams in there pour it all into the French press pot then you’re gonna add the hot water to it

I almost completely to the top and then you’re going to fasten this this little strainer sieve that’s going to actually drag the coffee beans eventually through the hot water after it steeps and producer with a good cup of coffee you’re going to let it sit there the experts say between two and

Four minutes as you get familiar with your French press you’ll be able to spend more or less time to your own taste the Brazilian enemy wants me to leave it for four minutes but I won’t do that to you you may that’s it for two minutes the word French press it

Actually comes from the French word deaf it ta a piece tone which means cafe ta which literally means the coffee maker with a piston oh and so they took it from piston I made it just French press because we were a little bit lazy with the language there it’s also been called

A coffee plunger this is another plumber I just choose to call it a French press because plunger just sounds gross who knows what’s in that coffee so we’re gonna let it steep for about two to four minutes and and then after its steep for a little bit we’re gonna push it through

Slowly again the speed at which you push the lever down it’s going to determine the richness and flavor of the copy that you end up with in your cup so therefore if you want to let it steep for a while and then just zip it through that’s one method some people will let

It steep and then push an inch every 30 seconds and just like and so the coffee the coarse ground coffee is dragged all the way through the hot water that’s it for a little bit the nice thing about French press is if you’re a health nut you can also make

Teas and direct tea leaves through the sieve and make it the exact same way and have a much like a healthier organic grand gift coffees on your thing but they’re actually pretty versatile and they’re really fun to use and a gentle push should just get it all just right

The way it out to be the French press actually became popularized in the 20s by New Zealand and Australian Cattle drivers and frontiersmen and they began to just not need an entire pot but just a couple cups here and there I find the same thing if I don’t have time I just

Forwarded these got a couple of cups and it’s ready to go very quickly and it does every to waste coffee with a large brew pot so and there it is my cup worked out