The Perfect Way to Brew French Press Coffee

The French press is easy to use, and it makes excellent coffee. Here's how we make our coffee in a press.

The french press and grinder shown in this video are available at our cafés, or through our online store: http://jjbean.myshopify.com/

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[Joel Watkins]

Looks like a city to city+ roast. What was the origin of the coffee?

[JJBeanCoffee]

The coffee in this video was from a farm called Fazenda Capão in Brazil.

[sleestack808]

your coffee looks like sawdust

[JJBeanCoffee]

Blast! Sleestack808 has discovered our terrible secret!

[mustang4010]

lol, funny reply but in all seriousness why does your coffee look like that?

[JJBeanCoffee]

Mainly because the lighting in the video makes the coffee look lighter than it is in real life. However, we also don't roast most of our coffee super dark (esp. Single Origin coffee as shown in the video). We try to bring out the more subtle and complex flavours inherent to the coffee, and we find that when it's roasted too dark you lose those flavours and it all becomes obscured by a generic smoky/carbony flavour. Not that that's necessarily "bad"; it's just not our style.

[AprilNguyen]

I watch it over and over again because of his voice :D

[Karl S]

No, because most presses are made from borosilicate glass, which is very resistant to temperature shock. If for some reason the press is made of soda-lime glass, there is more risk of breaking it with a quick change in temperature, so you'd want to heat it up. But that's quite the hassle for making coffee, hence why borosilicate is more typical.

[M M Nagi]

Why fill the press 1/2 way first?

[cherrieblossomgurl]

Do you have to heat up the press before adding the coffee grounds?

[Jonathan Bell-Etkin]

This particular coffee? None. This company isn't interested in trading with farmers that abuse or mistreat their employees.

[caitstr]

Nice stop motion effect.

[CoffeeZing]

Great creative tutorial vid!!

[Royal Ham]

Coarse grinds are best for french presses.

[nkmarks]

I would just like to know how many children were forced into slave labor to produce some of this coffee... anyone knows?.....

[dontpanicitsorganic]

none of my mugs are deserving!!!!!!!!!

[tzjpyt]

Hi, Great video. Several questions:

1) some videos show that after three minutes, instead of plunging, first remove with a spoon the bloom and some of the grinds on the top. Is this going to make any necessary effect for the better on the result?

2) a video on this subject showed a Bodum brand velcro wrap to wrap around the pot while waiting out the 2 mins. Would you think this is something that will benefit the brew?

3) 1 scoop coffee per 4oz water rule is usually the trend. You use less. why?