Hi, I’m Paolo from “Le Piantagioni del Caffè” and in this video I will brew one of our single plantation coffees, Alto Palomar, with French Press.

We have preheated the water to 92 Celsius degrees.
Let’s pour some of it into our jug in order to preheat it too. Always remember that if you heat your devices you will have more thermal stability and less heat loss during brewing.
Now I will grind 36 grams of coffee per half a liter of water.
The grind for this method is a bit coarser, like sea salt, than other methods such as v60 and Chemex which require a percolation phase.
A larger grind is needed precisely because it is an immersion method that brews more solids and the brewing time is around 5 minutes.  Whilst a fine grind would brew the most bitter parts.
Let’s open the jug and check the weight of the ground coffee. Now, wait for the water to go back to a temperature of 92 degrees and then we will be ready to brew.
Distribute the ground coffee, start the timer and let’s make the pre-infusion, the blooming.
In this case too, we can give it a little rotation and after about 30 seconds the remaining water can be added. Try to make spiral motions here too.
As in methods like Chemex and v60, the coffee will be immersed but we still try to brew more substances with this turbulence.
Let’s cover it without pushing the plunger and leave it to infuse for about 4 minutes. After 4 and a half minutes we can begin to push the plunger in order to separate the ground coffee from the drink.
When we are close to the end, we can remove the French Press from the scale.
Now we are ready to pour our drink.