Aeropress half price

DANNY2014

BUY YOUR FIRST BAG OF PACT COFFEE AND GET AN AEROBIE AEROPRESS FOR £14 (NORMALLY £28)

Use code aeropress2... Works out at £20.95 (€24) for a bag of coffee plus the device...

http://welcome.pactcoffee.com/aeropresssignup/

It's a subscription service for the coffee so when you receive items cancel the sub...

Sixtoes

DANNY2014 wrote: »

BUY YOUR FIRST BAG OF PACT COFFEE AND GET AN AEROBIE AEROPRESS FOR £14 (NORMALLY £28)

Use code aeropress2... Works out at £20.95 (€24) for a bag of coffee plus the device...

http://welcome.pactcoffee.com/aeropresssignup/

It's a subscription service for the coffee so when you receive items cancel the sub...

That's a lot of effort for 1 cup.

SteM

Have an aeropress in work, makes really good coffee imo.

unknownlegend

Has this worked for anybody?

I've tried, but when trying to confirm the payment, a red blob comes onto the top of the page and nothing happens.

DANNY2014

Sixtoes wrote: »

That's a lot of effort for 1 cup.

Have an aeropress already and it is really good coffee... I'd class it as my best coffee apparatus...

unknownlegend wrote: »

Has this worked for anybody?

I've tried, but when trying to confirm the payment, a red blob comes onto the top of the page and nothing happens.

Haven't tried to use the bargain I just put it up as I seen it on the site when getting some beans...
Are you trying delivered to a parcel motel,wizard etc or your home address...

charlie_says

Cheers I rolled the dice on that. Thanks OP

unknownlegend

DANNY2014 wrote: »

Haven't tried to use the bargain I just put it up as I seen it on the site when getting some beans...
Are you trying delivered to a parcel motel,wizard etc or your home address...

Ah, I'm trying to deliver to my home address on the assumption it was ok to deliver to Ireland. But it may need to be parcel motel or equivalent service to get this delivered.

Carlosthejakal

Not working for me. Hopefully somebody can get this bargain

DANNY2014

Carlosthejakal wrote: »

Not working for me. Hopefully somebody can get this bargain

Have you tried parcel motel or something similar...

JeffCash

Aeropress has arrived and the coffee tastes great. I selected the "LAS FLORES ESPRESSO" coffee and really impressed with it. Thanks OP

uck51js9zml2yt

PACT dont deliver to ROI !!

PM/PW are your only choice apart from addrespal

charlie_says

Yes I got very prompt delivery via parcel wizard.

I went with the Guatemalan coffee that they suggested for the Aeropress.

It tastes amazing. I think I am a convert after a few cups.

Brilliant. So glad I bought it. Must try out other coffees.

I think I might get a stainless steel filter instead of having to replace paper ones.

Awesome, awesome coffee yoke.

Etnies

I also ordered this got very quick delivery, was sent Thursday morning had it Friday night.

I ordered this out of pure curiousity would the coffee be any different than my Delonghi I got on a deal in Argos.

It's no better or worse than it, makes an ok coffee, I find all my coffee I make at seems somewhat weak no matter what kind of coffee I use or how much coffee I use.

For the money it's well worth it and it's easy to clean, but I'd probably use my Delonghi in the long run as I still have to turn it on to froath milk and I hate waiting for the kettle boil.

DANNY2014

I find to make a good strong coffee for me I make an espresso from the aeropress then a normal coffee with the remainder and when I'm half way through add the espresso... Works for me...

shanec1928

For people saying about weak coffee from the aero press you need to make it this way for a nice strong cup.

https://youtu.be/kQ8wvUKa35E

DANNY2014

That upside downy method is great too... Little messy if ya feck it up though...('',)

frag420

shanec1928 wrote: »

For people saying about weak coffee from the aero press you need to make it this way for a nice strong cup.

https://youtu.be/kQ8wvUKa35E

Toward the end he sounds like a junkie waiting for a fix ha ha!

On a serious note, I use the inverted method when brewing, however I don't have the patience to wait three mins!!

Also use metal filters as I like a bit of bite to my coffee, I find the paper filters make it tooooo smooooth, need some of the coffee acids to get through to give it some oooomph!!

This is a great bargain for a great coffee maker!!

Skuxx

My Aeropress arrived this morning. Have to say it makes a pretty impressive cup of coffee for such a simple and inexpensive device! Glad I grabbed this BA!!

stryker mcqueen

Have been meaning to get an Aeropress & this has finally made me...thanks OP

Anyone cancelled their sub once order received? straight forward?

DANNY2014

stryker mcqueen wrote: »

Have been meaning to get an Aeropress & this has finally made me...thanks OP

Anyone cancelled their sub once order received? straight forward?

Receive items then cancel sub... You get the whole oh "please don't go crap were great and this is great" but just a few clicks and your done...

Sappy404

I subscribed to Pact a few years ago after seeing another BA. Back then the parcels found their way to Dublin if you just stuck a Belfast postcode on your address.

Anyone know if this still works? Obviously using Parcel motel or the like isn't really feasible with a coffee subscription.

beardybrewer

Feck it, I'm a coffee fiend. Be curious to give this a try.

ozmo

shanec1928 wrote: »

For people saying about weak coffee from the aero press you need to make it this way for a nice strong cup.

https://youtu.be/kQ8wvUKa35E

I use this exact method - but don't add cold water to it at the end - yeuk.


Anyone know where best to get the permanent steel filters?

11214

ozmo wrote: »

I use this exact method - but don't add cold water to it at the end - yeuk.


Anyone know where best to get the permanent steel filters?

I got mine from a chap on eBay based in California.
Cheaper than buying over here, I'll try find a link but just search eBay and you should find it.

I've tried using this and my coffee was horrid! Bitter and rank. Was using Bailies coffee beans and a hand grinder.
Obviously I'm doing something wrong!! Anyone shed some light please?

mad m

Sappy404 wrote: »

I subscribed to Pact a few years ago after seeing another BA. Back then the parcels found their way to Dublin if you just stuck a Belfast postcode on your address.

Anyone know if this still works? Obviously using Parcel motel or the like isn't really feasible with a coffee subscription.

BT11AA (didn't let me down) But then again, getting coffee for 1 pound was worth the punt....20 pounds....Ill let you know....

ozmo

mad m wrote: »

BT11AA (didn't let me down) But then again, getting coffee for 1 pound was worth the punt....20 pounds....Ill let you know....

Last time I tried it (a couple years ago) that Belfast postcode for Dublin didnt work for me - Some postman got free graze boxes on me.

beardybrewer

Got mine today, will try it out tomorrow morning. 250g of coffee is really light for the price. I normally use a drip machine and doubt it would last 2 days.

Johnny_Fontane

beardybrewer wrote: »

Got mine today, will try it out tomorrow morning. 250g of coffee is really light for the price. I normally use a drip machine and doubt it would last 2 days.

You should be getting about 14 aeropresses per bag (so 17g per press).

Good coffee is not cheap!

Sappy404

beardybrewer wrote: »

Got mine today, will try it out tomorrow morning. 250g of coffee is really light for the price. I normally use a drip machine and doubt it would last 2 days.

Did you try the Belfast postcode trick?

JeffCash

Really loving the aeropress but not viable to have a monthly subscription with delivery through parcel motel. Where else do people source their coffee. Based in Cork but direct online delivery would be ideal.

Homebase670

Great deal, I got the fruit and nut coffee with the aeropress

mossym

JeffCash wrote: »

Really loving the aeropress but not viable to have a monthly subscription with delivery through parcel motel. Where else do people source their coffee. Based in Cork but direct online delivery would be ideal.

badger and dodo are my favourite and very close to you, do subscriptions but deliver next day if you order tuesday/thursday before 9.30. the nefas from B&D is
quite simply superb


3fe in dublin also do a subscription

JeffCash

mossym wrote: »

badger and dodo are my favourite and very close to you, do subscriptions but deliver next day if you order tuesday/thursday before 9.30. the nefas from B&D is
quite simply superb


3fe in dublin also do a subscription

Thanks, will check out badger and dodo first

beardybrewer

^^^^ €9+ a month for 250g of coffee? You must be joking.

mossym

at 14 cups a bag that would be 40 euros + in a shop.


luckily the aeropress won't say no to cheaper coffee if it's more to your taste. cheaper preground is probably more suited to your drip machine than an aeropress though, the grind size would be different.

mossym

JeffCash wrote: »

Thanks, will check out badger and dodo first

if you order individual bags, and don't have your own grinder, you can specify to have it preground for an aeropress. not sure if you can do the same with subscriptions(presume you can)

beardybrewer

mossym wrote: »

luckily the aeropress won't say no to cheaper coffee if it's more to your taste. cheaper preground is probably more suited to your drip machine than an aeropress though, the grind size would be different.

My usual is Aldi specially selected Java which is a very good coffee for the price. Comes out great in the aeropress as well. The brazillian coffee I got from Pact has a lot of tannins, meant to be a "chocolate shake" but I don't taste it. Maybe it's more suited to a shot of espresso than an americano which is more or less equivalent to the profile of my drip coffee. Still experimenting with methods, amounts, etc but so far doesn't compare.

For the hell of it I ordered 3x250g varieties from dodo and badger so I could compare them all back to back. Was a bit unhappy to pay so much for them to grind it. Do you know what the difference in grind is between drip and aeropress (finer? coarser?).

Honestly I'll be happy if my uncultured tastes prefer Aldi overall as I have many other vices to indulge.

mossym

the preground stuff, like that aldi stuff, is usally a much coarser grind as it's used in french press/ drip machines where finer grind would make it through the filter. aeropress grind will be much finer, almost espresso grind. advantage is you don't need to brew it as long so you lose the sourness.

i have a drip, a capsule machine(lavazza, much better than the nespresso rubbish), a french press, an oomph, and a few others and the aeropress is my favorite by far. i've tried that aldi, and it's passable, but not something i'd look forward to drinking, and i drink a lot.

as you said, if you don't see the difference, you've a nice cheap solution. i still think you won't get the most out of the aeropress with the coarser grind, but if you're not tasting it anyway what's the harm.

it's the same as not being able to taste the difference between a can of tennents down your local tesco and a local craft beer, you get the same hit of the alcohol/caffiene and you keepa ton of money in your pocket!!

Cotts72

I've always been interested in gettin one of these but balked at the price,might have a nose on eBay

mossym

Cotts72 wrote: »

I've always been interested in gettin one of these but balked at the price,might have a nose on eBay

balked at the price? 30 euros(15 on this deal)? believe me it's delivers better coffee per euro than any other maker. it makes better coffee than machines 10 times it's price

Cotts72

mossym wrote: »

balked at the price? 30 euros(15 on this deal)? believe me it's delivers better coffee per euro than any other maker. it makes better coffee than machines 10 times it's price

Most coffee shops in Cork have been selling it for €40

mossym

okay. "balking" at 40 euros seems a bit strong, but i get that value is relative.

if you don't like the idea of the original deal, then here is a cork supplier at 32 euros. https://badgeranddodo.ie/shop/equipment-aeropress/ if the cork shops are charging 40 maybe that is a bargain too. most places i;ve seen are in the 3x, argos have it for 36.

(that's the second time in this thread i've recommended b&d, just to confirm i have no connection to them other than as a frequent and extremely satisfied customer)

IrishHomer

37 Euro in Argos

wordofwarning

beardybrewer wrote: »

My usual is Aldi specially selected Java which is a very good coffee for the price. Comes out great in the aeropress as well. The brazillian coffee I got from Pact has a lot of tannins, meant to be a "chocolate shake" but I don't taste it. Maybe it's more suited to a shot of espresso than an americano which is more or less equivalent to the profile of my drip coffee. Still experimenting with methods, amounts, etc but so far doesn't compare.

For the hell of it I ordered 3x250g varieties from dodo and badger so I could compare them all back to back. Was a bit unhappy to pay so much for them to grind it. Do you know what the difference in grind is between drip and aeropress (finer? coarser?).

Honestly I'll be happy if my uncultured tastes prefer Aldi overall as I have many other vices to indulge.

Here is a great bargain alert. A lot of people can't tell the difference between products. Some of it is just the way we are wired eg an ice pop company in the US removed food colourings from its icepops only to discover without food colourings, most people could not tell what the flavours were. I know people who honestly can't tell the difference between a €2 bag of coffee or a €15 bag of coffee.

Research shows a lot of people are choice blind.

http://www.lucs.lu.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hall-et-al.-2010-Magic-at-the-Marketplace-Choice-Blindness-for-the-Taste-of-Jam-and-the-Smell-of-Tea.pdf

It is not just you. I imagine, if you filled a room with guests and asked them to tell which is the premium coffee or the cheap coffee. Most could probably not tell

jive

wordofwarning wrote: »

Here is a great bargain alert. A lot of people can't tell the difference between products. Some of it is just the way we are wired eg an ice pop company in the US removed food colourings from its icepops only to discover without food colourings, most people could not tell what the flavours were. I know people who honestly can't tell the difference between a €2 bag of coffee or a €15 bag of coffee.

Research shows a lot of people are choice blind.

http://www.lucs.lu.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hall-et-al.-2010-Magic-at-the-Marketplace-Choice-Blindness-for-the-Taste-of-Jam-and-the-Smell-of-Tea.pdf

It is not just you. I imagine, if you filled a room with guests and asked them to tell which is the premium coffee or the cheap coffee. Most could probably not tell

This is true for the vast majority of people but if you've had good fresh coffee you know what it tastes like. I would 100% be able to tell the difference between freshly roasted coffee vs standard store bought stuff.

Nothing wrong with the store bought stuff either as many coffee snobs would have you believe! The bargain here is more the aeropress + coffee rather than the coffee, aeropress is typically €32 alone

mossym

the opposite is also true. there are those who won't acknowledge the difference because the pleasure of getting the bargain is the important bit, so the more expensive product isn't better simply because it would lessen the bargain.

luckily both exist, because without them the choice of cheap and expensive coffee wouldn't be there. calling it cheap versus expensive just plays to that arguement. i'd prefer a bag of wholebeans to grind just before brewing to an expensive preground coffee that's been ground and sat on the shelf for a couple of months

not always about the sticker price

mad m

ozmo wrote: »

Last time I tried it (a couple years ago) that Belfast postcode for Dublin didnt work for me - Some postman got free graze boxes on me.

Got delivery of Aeropress this morning using the BT11AA. Gamble paid off...:)

will56

Amy recommendations for pre ground coffee to use with this. I know fresh ground is the best to use but not always an option for me.

mossym

Read the thread,all answered for you...

beardybrewer

I paid €27 to have 3x 250g ground sachets delivered from Badger & Dodo. I must say all 3 choices are tasty and unique. Now normally I'm happy with my ground coffee from Aldi but this has been a fun experiment. My poor drip coffee machine hasn't been used in over a week.

Not sure what other competitors there are in this space. Another was mentioned in the thread a few pages back but they were slightly pricier. I noticed a lot of options on Amazon during Prime Day but it's really just a shot in the dark.

There is also a coffee sub which might be worth searching for more recommendations.