Coffee Tips and News — French press

Known as the French Press, the Memoir in the United States, and the Cafetiere in Europe, the plunger pot system is an excellent way to make coffee. Many people prefer coffee to be made this way as it extracts the full flavour from the ground beans while other methods tend to remove some of  the taste, and paper filters can even add a taste of their own. An Italian named Caliman invented the plunger pot back in 1933. Later, he sold the design and patent to a Swiss national in order to escape from Italy during the war. The method...