Making french press coffee really isn’t difficult at all.  In fact, it’s about as complicated as making coffee in a regular drip coffee maker and yet so many fewer people use this method.  Mostly, because they just don’t know about.

Learning how to use a french press takes about five minutes, maybe even less than that.  All you need to do is a kettle for heating water, either a grinder for whole bean coffee or coffee that has already been ground for a french press, and a press pot itself.

Simply heat the water to approximately 200 degrees Fahrenheit (just below boiling), pour it into the french press carafe with the ground coffee added, stir it up and let it sit for three minutes.  You can allow the grounds to steep inside the water longer if you want the coffee to be stronger – in fact, after you have made coffee in a french press a few times you may want to experiment with it a little bit.

A lot of people don’t know how to make french press coffee and they use this as an excuse not to brew it, and yet once they try it just once they realize that it brews a superior cup of coffee to that of a drip coffee maker.  The full immersion brewing method that the french press uses allows for a much more thorough extraction of the freshly ground bean, this allows for subtle nuances and flavor notes from the soil that the bean was grown in to make their way into the cup.

You will find yourself tasting hints of everything from fruits like apple and pear, to more robust aromas such as ‘tree bark’ and woody nuances – perhaps they don’t sound as enticing as the fruits, but when extracted through ‘full immersion brewing’ these flavors are very welcoming to the palate.

French press coffee isn’t hard to make, and it offers a whole range of flavors that drip coffee makers simply do not.