In reply to Jamie Wakeham:
I have an aeropress and that was all I made coffee with this year, I get coffee from North Star Roasters and it's incredible. However - in the rain and wind of Pen y Pass car park the other month someone showed me a new method of brewing coffee and it was literally the best coffee I've ever tasted! It was good coffee, but nevertheless I've now changed processes to this one:
1) put your scoop(s) of coffee into a cafetiere
2) pour in water, not quite boiling, 84 degrees c ideally,
3) DON'T stir!
4) wait 4 minutes
5) Using a spoon gently press the floating ground coffee down from the top surface of the liquid so you only see crema (not floating ground coffee)
6) carefully (ish) scoop all the crema off and just throw it away, until you have only black / clear coffee on top. Apparently the crema makes it taste more bitter, some people like that but I've realised I don't.
7) put the cafetiere plunger bit on top but only press it down about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way just to act as a filter.
8) pour, enjoy and be amazed!
This it the only way I drink coffee now. The aeropress lies dormant!