Home AeroPress recipe: dose, water and grind
Why AeroPress fits at home
The AeroPress is an immersion brewer with manual pressure: compact, fast, and easy to clean. This note is a base recipe for home. If you want to buy the brewer or whole beans, that lives in the TOLO shop.
What you need
- AeroPress (chamber, plunger, filter cap) — see the AeroPress coffee maker page.
- Paper filters (or a metal filter if you already own one).
- Fresh whole-bean coffee and a grinder. Freshness logic is in our specialty whole-bean buying guide.
- Hot water and a scale if you have one (makes the cup repeatable).
Base recipe (standard method)
The method is simple: filter in the cap, coffee in the chamber, water, stir, and press calmly. The full steps are in our AeroPress brew guide.
The recipe we use at TOLO:
- Dose: 11 g coffee to 200 g water (1:18).
- Grind: medium-fine, 400–600 µm (finer than classic V60, coarser than espresso). If the cup is bitter or the press is hard, open the grind a notch — see grind science.
- Water: 95 °C. In Toluca water boils at about 91 °C, so use it right off the boil. We cover temperature in perfect water temperature for brewing.
- Steps: pour the water, stir gently, and fit the plunger just enough to seal while it steeps. Press gently once it has finished steeping, without forcing the plunger, and stop at the hiss.
To compare immersion, drip and espresso, see our V60 / Chemex / AeroPress / espresso comparison.
Water: the variable people skip
If the cup tastes flat or harsh even when the recipe is clean, check the water. The Specialty Coffee Association publishes brewing water quality standards (mineralization and recommended ranges) — see the SCA Coffee Standards. Very soft or very hard water changes extraction more than an extra second of press.
Quick dial-ins
- Sour / sharp: grind a bit finer, nudge temperature up, or let it steep a little longer.
- Bitter / drying: grind coarser, lower temperature, or shorten time.
- Weak: raise dose or reduce water — don’t just press harder.
Where to buy at TOLO
The AeroPress coffee maker and paper filters live in the shop, next to whole beans.
In Toluca, pick up at TOLO Pino Suárez on Blvd. José María Pino Suárez, Col. Cuauhtémoc, 50130. Hours: Monday–Friday 7:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Saturday–Sunday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Phone: +52 56 2915 1741. That is the only open café. Cristóbal Colón is coming soon, not open.
Choosing a method
If you are still choosing between AeroPress, V60 and Chemex, the brewing methods comparison lays out the differences; the gear is in the TOLO shop.
