today we're going to be reviewing this
it's American press and I didn't say
that wrong that's actually the name it's
not the American press it's not an
American press the name is it's American
press now I'll do my best not to start
this at a disadvantage for having a kind
of weird name it's sort of a French
press but it's really not actually it is
about sixty pounds which is not cheaper
but I think about eighty dollars in the
US so certainly an expensive way of
doing things but it's not really a
French press and I know it says it's not
a French press it says it's American
press but but I need to explain what I
mean by that now a French press Brewer
is an infusion brewer all of your coffee
hangs out with all of your water for a
period of time you get all the flavor
out and then you strain the grounds from
the liquid and you have a good time this
is totally different
I'll explain inside here there is this
little kind of pod they call it which is
a space in which you put your ground
coffee there's a little mesh at the
bottom there and there's a mesh on the
top too and then you fill this with just
up the boil water and then you're gonna
press this little pack of coffee through
the liquid which is really interesting
it's actually much more like an espresso
in that way that you have a kind of
column of water passing through a park
of coffee it's a bit like the Delta
press which works a little bit like this
and again was totally different to the
arrow press which was also an infusion
brewer so this should be interesting
it's a little bit unusual it's a little
bit expensive off the top of my head I
don't really know where to grind so I'm
gonna go somewhere around like a like a
2 cup v60 you know like a like a medium
fine kind of way see how that brew see
how that goes
let's get some coffee in this some hot
water in that and make its American
press I just can't I can't say that like
that anymore so I have my brewing
accoutrement it's quite a simple setup
here from a cup through some hot water
now the little pod of the you dose into
it's actually pretty small so I can see
it easily being
little bit messy but you know I've done
okay well that's 20 grams in there and
I'm gonna brew probably more like a 60
grams per liter thing here because it's
not an infusion brew
it's a percolation so let's put this
together now therefore let's put about
330 mich grams of hot water in here
lovely and now I guess we just press and
you should end up with clear liquid
below and above coffee
now that's interesting that looks and
then week so far interesting kind of
pretty I would imagine they would
propose a relatively slow contact time
here I'm not sure that's really the
defining factor it's gonna be about
grind size and your coffee to water
ratio their play is actually the
cleanliness of this whole deal it's it's
it's the press without the mess also
like that I think it's their trademark
so they're pitching the idea that this
little puck is contained and easy to
clean up afterwards and there's no
awkward rinsing out of French presses
which sure that's kind of a nice thing
but it's it's probably not the most
interesting thing about this brewer so
I've pressed when there is not yet mess
but looking at that that's very weak
it's a very weak broom I've done a bad
job here you could and I'm not a huge
fan of using agitation to do this just
go again right now you could just pull
that water back through do that but I
think it'll probably taste awful but I
don't think it's gonna be a good bro
anyway I have seen some breeze where
they'd like to give it a little little
extra work at the end let's see how far
away from good this is
I mean that just smells wildly under
extract it and I know you can't smell
extraction but you know what I mean not
unpleasant but not pleasant either my
fault for sure definitely definitely to
course which is interesting that's sort
of where er would make a French press
but I guess my contact time was maybe a
little bit short but either way I'm
gonna go a good bit finer not espresso
fine but certainly a little fire night
to see if we can get a bit more
extraction but what flavour bit more
goodness let's go again now having a
chance to reset was actually really
interesting it allowed me to test their
claim that this is really easy to clean
up and in fairness it is it's actually
quite a pleasant experience to claim the
little pod detaches from the plunger and
was easy to clean there's two bits of
mesh to clean this bit and the main
piece at the bottom here well pretty
well
in fairness to them so 20 grams again as
before let's put this back together to
screw this back in and we got the same
recipe as well a third of a litre
I'm going slowly because one it's hard
to press and two I want some more
contact time this time so there was two
minutes to brew it does advise longer
contact times but I'm not willing to
spend that much of my life slowly
pushing a thing down so two minutes is
kind of as much as I'd ever really be
willing to do that looks a bit better
now just well I'm letting this cool I've
been thinking about this and and I feel
like it's probably a better Brewer for
darker roasts which sounds like a weird
thing to say right with lighter roasts
you have to grow them a bit finer cuz
they're harder to extract and and the
finer you grind on this and worried that
the more finicky the process is gonna
become now the French press is is like
an Arab press which is that they're in
fusion Brewers and as a result they're
pretty easy to get right well certainly
right enough that you're happy with your
morning coffee the moment he moved us
things like percolation that that's just
a more difficult brewing process it's
just more possibilities for issues
things like channeling or a concern and
things like small changes to grind size
will have a big impact on the way that
the water moves through the coffee cake
I'm not saying it can't make good coffee
I think it what we can for the trade-off
of having an easier to clean brewer
you'll have a slightly harder to use
brewer and like I said if you use darker
roasts that are just going to be more
forgiving and extract more easily then
you might have a nice time if you're
frustrated by the mass of a French press
but you want that sort of form factor an
approximate experience then that's
pretty good
now the coffee the coffee is good and
that's because we've got a good ground
coffee good fresh clean water
well extracted the brewer can make a
nice coffee I'm not saying it can't for
a minute
but I think the trade-offs are
definitely interesting I do worry about
longevity of a couple of the pieces
especially that's sort of the main mesh
just the way that that's kind of put
together I worry about its lifespan
there's some rubber gaskets but they
should be relatively easy to replace
over time overall I do like it but I'm
not sure that I would reach for it to
brew my morning coffee all that often if
I had to use it I think I could get some
good coffee out of it but I might not
reach for it first thing
the morning if I want a percolation brew
I might just bread these 60 or something
like that and if I want an easy brew
then I might just brew a regular French
press and so the question for you of
should you buy this well does it meet
the needs do you like metal filtered
slightly silty a heavier richer coffee
do you find the mess of a French press a
real problem and are you happy to tweak
and play a little bit with your coffee
brewing because I think if that's you
then this might work for you it's a
capable brewer it's not flawed
necessarily but it it's fixing quite a
specific set of problems for me that I
don't really have in my day-to-day
coffee brew and it's at 60 pounds really
right at the upper end of pricing for
what feels comfortable for for what you
get for your money it does feel
well-built it feels nice but it's still
60 pounds for a very simple coffee
brewer but this is what I'm interested
in your thoughts do you have one have
you had a very different experience to
me have you had a much better experience
or worse one are you curious about this
I'd be really interested to hear your
comments down below now I don't get to
keep this I'm gonna give this away to
someone who supports me on patreon and
thank you to everyone who does and makes
these reviews possible let's me go out
and buy these things play with them
drink some coffee with them and share
that with you so I'll say thank you so
much for watching
it's American press and I didn't say
that wrong that's actually the name it's
not the American press it's not an
American press the name is it's American
press now I'll do my best not to start
this at a disadvantage for having a kind
of weird name it's sort of a French
press but it's really not actually it is
about sixty pounds which is not cheaper
but I think about eighty dollars in the
US so certainly an expensive way of
doing things but it's not really a
French press and I know it says it's not
a French press it says it's American
press but but I need to explain what I
mean by that now a French press Brewer
is an infusion brewer all of your coffee
hangs out with all of your water for a
period of time you get all the flavor
out and then you strain the grounds from
the liquid and you have a good time this
is totally different
I'll explain inside here there is this
little kind of pod they call it which is
a space in which you put your ground
coffee there's a little mesh at the
bottom there and there's a mesh on the
top too and then you fill this with just
up the boil water and then you're gonna
press this little pack of coffee through
the liquid which is really interesting
it's actually much more like an espresso
in that way that you have a kind of
column of water passing through a park
of coffee it's a bit like the Delta
press which works a little bit like this
and again was totally different to the
arrow press which was also an infusion
brewer so this should be interesting
it's a little bit unusual it's a little
bit expensive off the top of my head I
don't really know where to grind so I'm
gonna go somewhere around like a like a
2 cup v60 you know like a like a medium
fine kind of way see how that brew see
how that goes
let's get some coffee in this some hot
water in that and make its American
press I just can't I can't say that like
that anymore so I have my brewing
accoutrement it's quite a simple setup
here from a cup through some hot water
now the little pod of the you dose into
it's actually pretty small so I can see
it easily being
little bit messy but you know I've done
okay well that's 20 grams in there and
I'm gonna brew probably more like a 60
grams per liter thing here because it's
not an infusion brew
it's a percolation so let's put this
together now therefore let's put about
330 mich grams of hot water in here
lovely and now I guess we just press and
you should end up with clear liquid
below and above coffee
now that's interesting that looks and
then week so far interesting kind of
pretty I would imagine they would
propose a relatively slow contact time
here I'm not sure that's really the
defining factor it's gonna be about
grind size and your coffee to water
ratio their play is actually the
cleanliness of this whole deal it's it's
it's the press without the mess also
like that I think it's their trademark
so they're pitching the idea that this
little puck is contained and easy to
clean up afterwards and there's no
awkward rinsing out of French presses
which sure that's kind of a nice thing
but it's it's probably not the most
interesting thing about this brewer so
I've pressed when there is not yet mess
but looking at that that's very weak
it's a very weak broom I've done a bad
job here you could and I'm not a huge
fan of using agitation to do this just
go again right now you could just pull
that water back through do that but I
think it'll probably taste awful but I
don't think it's gonna be a good bro
anyway I have seen some breeze where
they'd like to give it a little little
extra work at the end let's see how far
away from good this is
I mean that just smells wildly under
extract it and I know you can't smell
extraction but you know what I mean not
unpleasant but not pleasant either my
fault for sure definitely definitely to
course which is interesting that's sort
of where er would make a French press
but I guess my contact time was maybe a
little bit short but either way I'm
gonna go a good bit finer not espresso
fine but certainly a little fire night
to see if we can get a bit more
extraction but what flavour bit more
goodness let's go again now having a
chance to reset was actually really
interesting it allowed me to test their
claim that this is really easy to clean
up and in fairness it is it's actually
quite a pleasant experience to claim the
little pod detaches from the plunger and
was easy to clean there's two bits of
mesh to clean this bit and the main
piece at the bottom here well pretty
well
in fairness to them so 20 grams again as
before let's put this back together to
screw this back in and we got the same
recipe as well a third of a litre
I'm going slowly because one it's hard
to press and two I want some more
contact time this time so there was two
minutes to brew it does advise longer
contact times but I'm not willing to
spend that much of my life slowly
pushing a thing down so two minutes is
kind of as much as I'd ever really be
willing to do that looks a bit better
now just well I'm letting this cool I've
been thinking about this and and I feel
like it's probably a better Brewer for
darker roasts which sounds like a weird
thing to say right with lighter roasts
you have to grow them a bit finer cuz
they're harder to extract and and the
finer you grind on this and worried that
the more finicky the process is gonna
become now the French press is is like
an Arab press which is that they're in
fusion Brewers and as a result they're
pretty easy to get right well certainly
right enough that you're happy with your
morning coffee the moment he moved us
things like percolation that that's just
a more difficult brewing process it's
just more possibilities for issues
things like channeling or a concern and
things like small changes to grind size
will have a big impact on the way that
the water moves through the coffee cake
I'm not saying it can't make good coffee
I think it what we can for the trade-off
of having an easier to clean brewer
you'll have a slightly harder to use
brewer and like I said if you use darker
roasts that are just going to be more
forgiving and extract more easily then
you might have a nice time if you're
frustrated by the mass of a French press
but you want that sort of form factor an
approximate experience then that's
pretty good
now the coffee the coffee is good and
that's because we've got a good ground
coffee good fresh clean water
well extracted the brewer can make a
nice coffee I'm not saying it can't for
a minute
but I think the trade-offs are
definitely interesting I do worry about
longevity of a couple of the pieces
especially that's sort of the main mesh
just the way that that's kind of put
together I worry about its lifespan
there's some rubber gaskets but they
should be relatively easy to replace
over time overall I do like it but I'm
not sure that I would reach for it to
brew my morning coffee all that often if
I had to use it I think I could get some
good coffee out of it but I might not
reach for it first thing
the morning if I want a percolation brew
I might just bread these 60 or something
like that and if I want an easy brew
then I might just brew a regular French
press and so the question for you of
should you buy this well does it meet
the needs do you like metal filtered
slightly silty a heavier richer coffee
do you find the mess of a French press a
real problem and are you happy to tweak
and play a little bit with your coffee
brewing because I think if that's you
then this might work for you it's a
capable brewer it's not flawed
necessarily but it it's fixing quite a
specific set of problems for me that I
don't really have in my day-to-day
coffee brew and it's at 60 pounds really
right at the upper end of pricing for
what feels comfortable for for what you
get for your money it does feel
well-built it feels nice but it's still
60 pounds for a very simple coffee
brewer but this is what I'm interested
in your thoughts do you have one have
you had a very different experience to
me have you had a much better experience
or worse one are you curious about this
I'd be really interested to hear your
comments down below now I don't get to
keep this I'm gonna give this away to
someone who supports me on patreon and
thank you to everyone who does and makes
these reviews possible let's me go out
and buy these things play with them
drink some coffee with them and share
that with you so I'll say thank you so
much for watching