>You have to put the grains and water in with it upside down anyway Wait, what? The standard method is to put coffee into the Areopress right way up. Having t

>You have to put the grains and water in with it upside down anyway Wait, what? The standard method is to put coffee into the Areopress right way up. Having tried upside down and right side up immersion, I can’t say it makes much difference either way. In which case, I’d rather not have a top heavy vessel of hot water on the counter. It also has the advantage of being able to inspect how the filter is seated before you proceed. I’ve had instances where the filter is not seated properly and excessive agitation manages to unseat the filter. If you reuse filters (and I taste no reason not to), I observe that the filters bunch up a little bit more with reuse. Anyway, I don’t mean to say that you can’t invert things. But taste-wise, inverted brewing may have no clear advantages if you just want a nice coffee.