![]() ![]() The championship resumed in 2021, with both in-person events and a new online format, in which competitors create and submit their recipe remotely. The 2020 championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() The 2018 competition attracted 3,157 competitors from 61 countries. It was first held in Oslo, Norway, in 2008, with only three competitors, but grew in popularity each year after. ![]() The event is a multi-round, elimination tournament, in which competitors have five minutes to brew coffee. The World AeroPress Championship is an international fan-led AeroPress brewing competition. In the years after its release, it gained a cult following among coffee enthusiasts, who praised it for its flexibility and consistency in brewing. The device was officially unveiled in November 2005, at the CoffeeFest trade show in Seattle. released the AeroPress Go, a travel-sized model with a reduced chamber capacity, smaller accessories, and an included travel cup. The lettering changed color several times, but the brewer's design was otherwise unchanged between these versions. The company claims that in lab testing, no BPA leached from these early models into brewed coffee. Early AeroPress models used polycarbonate, but in 2009 switched to BPA-free copolyester, then in 2014 to polypropylene. The chamber and plunger are moulded out of translucent plastic, tinted a grey colour. Metal filters are available, but Aeropress do not supply them, finding that coffee made with paper filters is better. It comes bundled with several accessories, including a scoop and funnel for loading ground coffee, a stirring paddle, a tote bag, and a plastic holder for storing filter papers. A filter cap is screwed onto the end, to hold a small round paper filter in place. The brewer consists of a translucent cylindrical chamber, and a plunger with an airtight silicone seal, similar to a syringe. He first began prototyping the AeroPress in his garage. Adler had tried brewing with an espresso machine, pour-over brewer, and french press, but expressed dissatisfaction with each brewer's limited control over parameters such as brew time, water temperature, and grind size. Adler began developing the brewer in 2004, with the intention of reducing acidity and bitterness in his daily cup of coffee. The AeroPress was invented by retired Stanford engineering lecturer Alan Adler. A transparent AeroPress, with accessories (filter papers not shown) ![]()
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