It is the Delta Press.

This is one of the most requested reviews I've had in some time on lots of you want to know is this better than the era press?

And I think that's asking entirely the wrong question.

I'll explain why in a second now, this is a Brisbane based company.

I think it's designed that Australia it's manufactured in China.

It is in the UK, available for about £35 which makes it a bit more expensive than an era press.

But the reason it's the wrong question is that it is a fundamentally different brewer and I do mean fundamentally.

Now I needn't air press to make this all work.

So, you know, the air oppressed.

The air press is an infusion brewer.

All of the coffee and all of the water hang out for a while in the brew chamber, and then you plunge them to sort of press them against a piece of paper, clean them up, separate them and get your cup of coffee out that way.

But the key here is that it's an infusion Brewer Delta Press is not an infusion brewer and I think that's a really important point.

So it fundamentally brews in an entirely different way to the air oppressed.

Here you have your water goes in the top and a slightly convoluted way, but we'll come to that so your filter paper goes here and you can see here your brewer essentially has Canada shower screen, almost like an espresso machine.

I kind of spray head, I guess, is putting more accurate.

So this this column of water is gonna pass through this park of coffee on that makes it a totally, totally different brewer to the era press.

So we've got two questions to answer about the Delta Press.

Firstly, does it make good coffee?

And secondly, Well, what's the experience of it like, How is it to use now it is gonna end up being compared to the air.

A press on.

I think the air a press is a very high bar in a couple of regards.

One.

It's such a flexible bro, you can do so much with it.

There's so many different ways, bru and two, it's cheap and it's easy to use on.

It's kind of reliable.

It's unbreakable.

It's simple.

There's a couple of parts.

It comes with extra bids.

But even if you don't use these, it doesn't really matter.

So let's start off with how you brew coffee using the Delta press.

So here's how it works.

We're gonna put our coffee in here.

You turn the whole thing upside down and you then have a rinsed out your filter paper.

Put it in your cap.

On that cap screws on top.

Also simple.

Also familiar, I guess so far.

Well, a bit.

This is where things get a little bit odd.

Turn upside down.

But any bring vessel and you leave the plunger A ll the way in, right?

It's not the press.

Will you take the plunger up with water and put the plunger And again we start without plunger, fully depressed.

Now, one nice thing about this in theory, is this line's on here to give you an idea of how much water to fill.

I filled this up to the 200 line and yeah, well, pretty much the 195 a tiny bit more Any more now we haven't started brewing yet.

That's really important.

We could get rid of the scale now as well.

What you absolutely must do now is put on this little rubber thing.

It's used as a scoop.

I think it stopped you getting scolded by having your hand on top of some freshly boiled water.

Here's what they want you to do.

We haven't started brewing yet.

When we left this, we can pull some water from inside the plunger up to the 50 levels here at the bottom, and that water's now above the coffee and we can start to gently pre infuse her gently profusion kind of funny word here.

We're just kind of brewing, essentially, if we press this through and they were bringing a low pressure, but it it's not like blooming the same way.

If you're doing a percolation brew, know that you're gonna suffer all of the same problems, potentially as any other percolation brew.

Most notably, channeling is a concern.

So now I can pop the rest of my Bridgewater, which interesting me is a little bit less than 1 50 so some extra has really gone proved, and I compress that gently through.

So I'm using 12 grams 200 pretty normal recipe, especially for a percolation bro, not an infusion brew grind wise, reasonably find for filter coffee.

Not very finds that mean nowhere near espresso on the finer end of medium, which is not that helpful to anyone I know.

I will finish this.

We need to talk about a couple of things.

Firstly, when you get to this point, if you've used in air press a lot, you're gonna want to do something.

Don't do it.

You're gonna want to take the brew off the cup.

Just just do that with it to sort of be finished for a second.

This is a terrible idea.

This is not sealed, and there is still some hot water inside.

I've done this a couple of times and scolded myself, so don't don't do that.

I think they encourage you to kind of press through again the last little bits in a row press brewing that never tastes particularly good to do.

So I'm kind of intrigued by that.

Even so when you're done, pretty pull back a little bit.

But I would not turn this upside down.

I'm saying this little thing here, Justus assignment has kind of driven me crazy.

If you news this, it becomes very hard to use this Brooke's.

You literally can't put your hand on top and press it.

It doesn't fit particularly well.

Falls out quite a lot in transit.

It would be easier to lose.

Everything is a particularly good scoop.

I think that's not a great piece of design.

And here we have some coffee, and that's actually too hot for me to assess right now.

And I don't doubt it will be a pretty good brew.

It's a question of getting my grind fine enough to use.

I'm gonna clean this up now.

And unfortunately for the Delta, this is one area where it will come in direct comparison with the air.

A press If you've used the nervous, I'm sure you remember the first time that you kind of popped out that spent park and just give it a rinse and it was done and it was clean and you like that.

So easy, not quite the same experience here, Andi, I know that's kind of unfair.

It's one of the best bits of the air presses, that kind of cleanup process being so, so quick and easy.

It just isn't that with the Delta, I'll press it through.

We take this thing off.

It doesn't work the same way because the coffee is still inside the brood chamber, right?

Like I can't just knock it out.

So I have to be a bit more aggressive.

A man.

The inside of it is still pretty messy.

It needs a really good riddance and good clean.

It's just not as fun.

It's just not as easy to clean up as the era press.

It's okay, but compared to other paper filter brewers like you take a B 60 you pick the paper up, you throw it in the bin.

Clever.

You do the same thing, even though that's an infusion brewer, it's beside the point.

So while we wait for the coffee to cool a little bit more still, I'll talk to you about a few other things that sort of bother me.

Or that I think about with the Delta.

Aside from this thing that just keeps falling out.

Now, the papers that go in it very similar but not quite identical in size to the air oppress the texture feels very difference there.

Most definitely two sided in that regard, and then on this Thea press filter It's just a bit more uniform on both sides.

The Delta paper has maybe a two mil smaller diameter, but it does mean if you put air press papers in your delta, it won't quite fit beautifully.

I'm not sure if you have any issues.

I haven't really played much with that, but it it's an interesting decision to go so close, but not just be the same size.

You may interpret that as you will.

The plunger mechanism on the air presses that big chunk of rubber.

Here.

The seal is much, much, much thinner.

There's the small little gasket here that a few times I've ended up getting kind of twisted or mashed up on.

It just doesn't feel as kind of sturdy and long lasting as the plunger from an error press.

I feel this would just be much easier to damage or potentially just wear out, then a thicker, larger piece of rubber in the air abreast.

So that's kind of a funny one for me.

The last little nit pick, I guess, or thing I think about is the shower screen.

The way that this distributes water is kind of interesting.

It does have a sort of an outward spray pattern.

So you're looking to hit, I guess probably most of the coffee reasonably well.

But the flow doesn't look super consistent across the whole shower head, right?

Like I do worry about things like channels forming in my brew from pushing a little bit too hard.

If I'm pushing with some pressure, pushing very softly, then it it's not really a concern.

But if you start to press harder, these do generate a little bit of force that I would imagine would be pretty disruptive, potentially to the coffee cake.

And so, you might ask, Do I don't like anything about this?

Yeah, it makes a nice cup of coffee.

There's no denying that you can use it and you can have some pretty tasty brews.

It's It's a nice little percolation brewer.

It's an interesting approach like aspect of it.

But in all these things, I have to ask, What problem is it solving better than something else?

Yes, yes, it is a new place to play.

It is a new way of brewing, in a way, this sort of very hand controlled percolation.

And yes, you could do a whole bunch with like, Is it good to do 1 50 then 11 50?

Or is it good to do 1 50 then another 50 and another 50 and another 50?

Now, bruv, is that better?

There's a bunch of variables, but I'm not sure those variables that designed or offered up in a way to solve a particular problem.

I'm sure if you have one and brew with one, you'll have some fun.

I've no doubt you'll get some tasty coffee out of it, but it's not the era press killer.

The decision to anchor this brewer so clearly in another existing brewer right toe echo the air.

Pressing a bunch of ways is a big gambles.

The upside is that this is sort of familiarity to the idea of coffee and water.

Go in and you press it down by hand, and you brought it on top of the cup and it goes in your backpack in.

It's easy.

All of that gets communicated really well.

The downside is that if you got an a repressive bill from Lily with the era press, this is not as good and experience plainly and simply, it's a little bit fussy it use.

It will trip you up.

If you use it just like you use an air of press.

It'll catch you out in funny little ways.

It'll frustrate you.

If you came to this news who came to this brand new, you might find it a slightly weird looking brewer that made nice coffee the same way that you might think the same thing about the era press.

But the era press has been so successful that there's very few is out there that don't already have some level of awareness and knowledge about it.

So that's it.

That's how I feel about the Delta.

But I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

Do you have one?

Have you had a very different experience to me?

The same little things tripped you up a CZ with me.

I'd be really interested to know about the best results that you've had from this.

What are you doing?

How are you brewing?

Leave me a comment down below.

I'll be super interested to read those as always.

Thank you so much for watching.