Brewing coffee with the all porcelain (including the filter) Bayreuth brewer. There's not many all porcelain brewers out there; I should write this one up more on CoffeeGeek, because it's pretty good!

Shot with a Fujifilm #X100T camera, same Tri-X film simulation, straight from the camera.

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When the Aerobie AeroPress was first introduced in 2005, and became one of the hottest forum topics in the old CoffeeGeek forums, one of the most common requests put towards the inventor, Alan Adler, was for a larger version of the AeroPress.

Adler always resisted. He felt the 250ml brewing max size of the AeroPress was ideal. He rarely brewed that much coffee in it himself, preferring a shorter, more concentrated amount, something the AeroPress was more than capable of delivering.

For years, requests continued to be made in the longest thread ever to exist in CoffeeGeek’s old forums. Some just wanted a 350ml version of the AeroPress. Some wanted double the size. Even a few wanted an AeroPress that could brew a liter of coffee at a time (that’s just silly, IMO).

Nearly 20 years after Adler started tinkering with a coffee tube device that would become the AeroPress, the company, now owned by Tiny Capital (Adler is still a minority owner) acquiesced and is rolling out the AeroPress XL Model.

Double the capacity of the original AeroPress. Same silhouette, but everything’s bigger. The price is bigger too. It initially launched at $80 from AeroPress direct and short-term exclusive partner REI (double the price of the base AeroPress), but now has settled down to $70 on Amazon and other channels.

Let’s get into the new AeroPress XL a bit more, keeping in mind this is just an introduction post, not a review (that’s coming).

The New AeroPress XL

In a nutshell, the AeroPress XL is roughly 90% identical to the original and current AeroPress, except, a) everything is bigger, b) it features new branding and an updated logo, and c) there’s a design change to the piston portion of the brewer (I’ll get to that). Plus the plastic is a darker grey polypropylene material – the same kind of plastic used in the standard AeroPress, but darker (the new Clear model uses Tritan copolyester). 

Here’s how the box looks next to the standard and clear boxes. It’s actually not that much bigger, all things considered, and is close to the original box size when the AeroPress shipped with a funnel and filter paper holder.

Here’s how the AeroPress XL looks next to the standard AeroPress.

The apparent max capacity of the AeroPress XL is 500ml, but it can stretch to about 550ml if you dare to do the inverted brewing method. It can be used as a nobypass brewer (indeed, it’s well suited for this trendy brewing method), which makes the capacity pretty much unlimited. 

Inside the box, you get 100 filters (larger size than original AeroPress), the recognizable Aeropress paddle stirrer, and a coffee scoop. You also get a new half liter carafe that is designed to work with the XL model (but will also do fine with a standard AeroPress).

This is the second AeroPress to ship with a carafe or drinking vessel – the AeroPress Go is the first – and it is made out of the same clear shatterproof Tritan copolyester plastic that the Aeropress Clear is. It is hexagonal shaped, has a pour spout, and has an etched version of the new AeroPress logo on one side. Its capacity is about 600ml, but really only 500ml if you use the AeroPress XL with it, since the brewer’s filter area sits inside the carafe somewhat.

Everything’s Bigger

Everything about this brewer is bigger, which means most of your legacy AeroPress accessories and doo-dads won’t work with the XL.

• The diameter of the brewing tube is bigger
• The length of the brewing tube is bigger
• The filter paper is bigger
• The filter cap (and where it screws into the brewing tube) is bigger
• The inner diameter of the piston tube is bigger (your Aergrind will wobble around inside).

If you stocked up on a 1,000 AeroPress paper filters, they won’t work with this model; you gotta buy some more. Your nifty Aliexpress AeroPress display stand or leather grip won’t work with this model. If you have aftermarket metal filters for the AeroPress, they will not work in the XL model. 

Depending on the popularity of the XL, look for companies like Able and others to start making their XL sized metal filters soon.

The Branding

With this model, AeroPress has updated the look of their logo and the branding on their box. I quite like the new logo style, with the sans-serif choice, rounded ends of the letters and the switch to capitalized / lower case. It looks a lot more modern.

The updated branding is everywhere on the XL: the brewer itself, the embossing on the bottom of the brewer, on the Tritan plastic carafe, and even on the stirring paddle.

The box also gets good branding updates that make it more professional looking and more informative as well.

Piston Design Change

Though this is not a review. That said, I did want to point out something I noticed right away with the AeroPress XL. The piston – that is the part you push down into the main brewing chamber, with the rubber plunger attached – is different in other ways than size from older AeroPress models, and the current AeroPress Clear. There are no guide ribs on the side of it. I should note the latest version of the standard AeroPress also has no ribs on the piston tube, something I only noticed recently.

These guide ribs keep the standard AeroPress piston stable when you plunge down on it. I’ve brewed only 6 times so far with the AeroPress XL (twice as inverted, because I’m nuts), and I noted it is more wobbly and can canter from side to side a bit when plunging down. It’s not enough to break the seal inside. 

But given this brewing device is much larger, I don’t know why they would remove the ribs. I’ll find out for the review.

The Expanding AeroPress Lineup

With the launch of the XL, AeroPress now has four models of their brewer, as well as a few accessories, including the metal filter and the flow control cap.

The four models include the AeroPress Go, the standard AeroPress, the AeroPress XL, and the AeroPress Clear.

There’s still one more in the pipeline to come: the AeroPress Premium.

It’s Here – is it Worth It?

So after nearly 20 years of people begging for an AeroPress Extra Large, we finally have one. At the $80 launch price, it was nearly 3x more expensive than the original AeroPress in 2005, and a bit too expensive to recommend. Now that it is settled down to $70 today as listed on Amazon, and does come with the Tritan 500ml carafe, it is more of a fair price. Also, as of May 2024, you can finally buy XL-sized permanent filters for the brewer, which, to me at least, make it more of an attractive buy.

But is it worth the price? We initially planned on reviewing the XL, but that’s morphed into planning for another blog post on just using the XL brewer, and how it differentiates from the standard AeroPress; look for that at some point in the future on CoffeeGeek. I always like to focus on historical pricing, and if you keep in mind the OG AeroPress was $30 in 2005, that is nearly $50 in purchasing power today. So $20 more of the XL version ($50 vs $70) isn’t a big leap in pricing.

One thing I haven’t seen mention of yet (especially not from AeroPress themselves): the AeroPress XL lends itself to nobypass flow through brewing, better than the standard models. This is because the overall brewing chamber diameter is larger. People are spending $50 to $150 on dedicated nobypass brewers. With the XL, you get a pretty decent one (albeit with very tall side walls, and the semi opaque dark plastic makes it harder to see the brewing action).

That, too, adds some value to the AeroPress XL.

https://coffeegeek.com/blog/new-products/the-aeropress-xl-is-here-worth-the-wait/

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