How to use a French Press
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
French Press
Kettle
Spoon
Scale (if you have one)
Cell Phone Timer
RECIPE:
1:15 Ratio
50g of coffee
750g of H2O
BREW TIME
5 minutes
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Make French Press Coffee in 5 Steps
French Press coffee is a submersion brew method to make third-wave coffee at home with boldness. This unfiltered approach to coffee brewing will help you make Trinity CBC coffee with a creamy body and velvet texture in 5 Steps. I even use it to make micheladas and cold brew, but that’s for another Trinity CBC blog.
The press brewer allows for a grit experience to specialty coffee that is not present in filtered-paper brewing, leaving behind a mouthfeel with a silky finish. Don’t forget: you can froth milk and brew tea with it too.
If you like delicious Trinity CBC coffee with pronounced flavors and coffee that pairs great with breakfast foods, then this Brew Guide is for you! And if you need your coffee beans ground for a press pot brewer, we can help!
Step 1
Off the water boil, pre-heat your coffee mug and french press with hot water.
Agitate the plunger up and down to saturate the entire brewer with hot water
Discard the water from the press into your mug
Secure the plunger lid on the french press to retain heat
Step 2
Grind your Trinity CBC coffee coarsely with a particle size of sea salt or Kosher salt. If you prefer coffee grit, use a medium grind size
This recipe is a 1:15 ratio of coffee to water
For every 1 gram of coffee, add 15 grams of water
Another tactic to follow is 3 tablespoon of coffee for every 1 cup of water
Use a scale that measures in grams for accuracy
Step 3
Remove the plunger from the glass beaker and add 50g of Trinity coffee
Hit start on your cell phone time timer. Reminder: Don’t look at @instagram or walk away to put makeup on
Add 100g of hot water and let the coffee de-gas (bloom) for :30s
With a spoon, agitate the coffee bed to ensure total coffee saturation
After 30s, slowly pour the remaining 650g of hot water - 750g total
Step 4
Enclosed the plunger lid and wait 4:00 minutes - do not plunge the piston
As the coffee steeps for 4:00 minutes, discard the hot water from your mug
At minute 4:00 minutes, remove the plunger lid and grab your spoon
Break the coffee crush that forms at the top of the glass beaker by turning your spoon in a circular motion 5 times…slow and easy with the spoon, homie
If you like clean-coffee, remove the coffee grit, oils and creamy froth that forms on the surface or filter the coffee with a coffee paper filter
Step 5
Plunge the piston, and slowly decant your Trinity CBC coffee into your mug
After you break the crust, re-secure the press-lid
At minute 4:30, slowly press the plunger down until the screen makes contact with the bottom.
Slow and smooth pressure is key, so do not squeeze the grounds with the plunger’s screen or agitate the coffee at the bottom by pressing rapidly with excessive force
OR do not plunge at all…and slowly decant your coffee into your mug with the piston securely fastened to the glass beaker - yup, use just like a strainer!
Decant your coffee into your cup! Woah…this coffee is sexy and hot!
Oh, by the way, if you’re serving two cups…distribute the pour evenly by pouring back and forth between the cups. Otherwise, one cup will have too much coffee grit at the bottom of the mug
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