The instructions that come with the Aeropress work really well for dark and medium roasts. But for light roasts I recommend starting with James Hoffman's technique. I found only really high quality, single origin, very light roasts can handle his recommended 95-100°C water so I generally use cooler water (around 85°C) even with his technique.

I've never traveled with the Aeropress so I'm not sure how hot the galley water is.

Stumptown is great. Their Hairbender blend is sold by the bag at Floret in SEA. I'm curious if they use it for their drip as well.

Heat is not the primary concern when brewing with galley water. If you brew with galley water, you ARE drinking airplane coffee.

The best I've seen on an airplane is a bottle of Dasani dumped into a clean coffee pot then left on the hot plate til it was used for a pour over.

Two of the best out there no doubt, really good cup of joe every time.

Not sure if anyone mentioned DTW, but the place inside of Plum Market over by A34/36 (Zingerman's Coffee) has an excellent medium roast that is consistently good. Power move is to grab your food from the counter and walk over to the coffee side to pay for it all there to avoid the line at the registers.

I feel like I’ve wandered into a live broadcast of ‘The View’.

What do you mean by this?

Exactly. Real men drink motor oil and snack on the burnt pieces of bread from behind a 2 star restaurant. Only rich lady-Bois enjoy artisan coffee. *Sarcasm*

Picked one of these up a few months ago as I wanted something that can pack easily for road trips and boils its own water. Planned to use it during training which I haven't been assigned yet so it's still sitting on the shelf. That said, should be pretty handy and I plan to test it here shortly with a good bag of beans.

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The attitude in Portland is that Stumptown sold out and when corporate. Not sure if their coffee has suffered as a result. Even Shake Shacks in JFK have Stumptown now. The coffee in SEA at the Beechers Vita cafe in C is better than the Floret. MKE has a place right in the middle of the terminal called Valentine which I think is a local coffee roaster which is great. Looks like maybe Covid killed it for the time being. Or maybe there is a remodel going on.

Yeah, enough coffee you can get through anything.