aeropress with specialty coffee - sharing my exp to possibly favour others

hello

sharing my experience so that maybe someone in the same situation can get out of it faster and enjoy its specialty coffe in the aeropress.

I grew up with mokas and actually never liked coffee. I started very late, with moka. But then when I tried the aeropress (lavazza pre-ground) I brewed very strong coffee and the flavour was fantastic.

so, I was very enjoying dark roasts/med roasts with classic nutty, woody, choco flavour brews in my aeropress. Aeropress at the same time made me like. coffee and started trying specialty.

I got into lighter roasts and could not get from the aeropress what I got from v60 or flat bottom brews.

too long too read: I was enjoying dark roasts in the AP but couldnt reliably enjoy the specialty coffees with more peculiar flavors in it.

recently though I was getting the AP again because it is a much easier process and did not want to fuss about. And I found out how to make it work - for me at least - which was to grind fine.

too long to read: what unlocked it for me is understanding that the AP likes finer grinds.

at the moment I am enjoying specialty coffee in the AP, following about this recipe, which I eye and there is no need to fuss too much about, and what unlocked it was the grind size.

- 30-33 clicks on the kingrinder p2 (around this, im not sure)

- 90-88. celsius water, you can probably go a bit lower as well or higher, up to you

- ratio, about 1:10 (i go a bit above or a bit below, it doesnt matter, but about 1:10)

- for now I put around 12 grams of coffe, meaning I tried, 10, I tried 12, i trieed 13 or a bit above, but eyeing 1:10 circa

- i am just putting the ground in the inverted AP (i dont have any special attachment for the AP) ; I add about 50 grams of water (more or less, it doesnt matter) and stir
- then I add the rest of the water cleaning the stirring thing, bring the AP level so there is no air and wait

- I would wait at least 2 minutes but you can just forget about it and come back later. I think today I left it there for 10/15 minutes, maybe more. It was lukewarm and delicious when I got to it...

- press it gently once you do

(I am using a paper filter which I reuse and a old metal filter together I bought years ago of Idk what brands, although I a sure you can do with one paper filter orr maybe two if you want to filter more)

im not saying that this is equivalent to a v60 or flat bottom dripper, but grinding finer made me enjoy specialty AP brews whereas so far I was not

cheers! ciao