Updated October 2026 · AeroPress Recipe Series
The dose is the weight of coffee you grind for one cup. In the AeroPress Recipe Series it changes with the density of your roasted beans, across all 121 recipes, and the recipe shows the brew water to go with it.
33.3 g for the darkest roasts, 14.8 g for the lightest, and 20.0 g in the middle (Recipe 61, 0.390 g/ml), for a 200 g cup. Weigh the dose, then use the brew water shown on the recipe.
How the dose is worked out
The recipe starts from the cup you want to drink: a fixed cup weight and a ratio that sets its strength. It then works back to the dose, allowing for the concentrate, because the puck holds back part of it.
Brew water = dose × concentrate ratio
The recipe also shows the brew water, the water you pour onto the coffee to make the concentrate. The concentrate ratio runs from about 1:3 for the darkest roasts to 1:6 for the lightest. Press, then top up to the cup weight. See the AeroPress ratio guide.
At these doses a gram is a big change, so weigh the coffee on a 0.1 g scale rather than measuring it by volume.
The range
The dose falls as density rises, from 33.3 g at 0.330 g/ml to 14.8 g at 0.450 g/ml. Doses below are for a 200 g cup.
100 g of brew water · 0.330 g/ml, the darkest roasts (Recipe 1)
90 g of brew water · 0.390 g/ml, the middle (Recipe 61)
89 g of brew water · 0.450 g/ml, the lightest roasts (Recipe 121)
And in between:
Recipe 21 · 94 g of brew water
Recipe 41 · 91 g of brew water
Recipe 81 · 89 g of brew water
Recipe 101 · 89 g of brew water
Why this range
Dose, ratio and concentrate move together across the series, so each roast gets the combination that suits it.
Dark roasts are brittle and extract easily. A high dose in less water keeps extraction, and bitterness, in check, and topping up to the cup weight gives a drinkable cup.
Light roasts are dense and resist extraction. A lower dose with more water per gram extracts more, so they taste sweet and clear rather than sour.
The espresso, filter and French press doses all change with density too. The AeroPress adds a twist: because you brew a concentrate and top it up, the brew water changes along with the dose.
The midpoint
Recipe 61, at 0.390 g/ml, is the middle of the series. Its dose is 20.0 g with 90 g of brew water.
World AeroPress Championship recipes have used doses from about 12 to 35 g, so the series sits inside what competitors have brewed, with most modern recipes at the lighter end.
Every recipe finishes at a 200 g cup, so the dose changes the strength and extraction rather than the size of the cup.
Every recipe steeps for one minute, so the dose, ratio, grind and temperature do the work of matching the brew to your roast.
Haven’t measured your beans? Start at Recipe 51 (0.380 g/ml), then use Extract More or Extract Less. Measured? The coffee density calculator takes you straight to your recipe.
References
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Find your starting recipe, then dig deeper into what drives extraction.
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