Some people, including Gizmodo's OCD coffee nerd Matt Buchanan, say you should never make coffee in a French press (or cafetiére, as it is known in most of the world). The reasons? Under-extraction, and too many muddy grounds making it through the filter and into your cup.
The Espro Press aims to fix at least one of these problems with the inclusion of a double filter. The first is a cup-shaped filter that sticks out from the filter unit and digs under the floating grounds. As you press the plunger, the clean-ish coffee bubbles through this filter, and is then forced through a second even finer micro-filter. The result is an almost sediment-free cup of coffee.
The body of the Espro Press is double-walled, vacuum-insulated stainless steel, to keep the brew temperature constant and the resulting coffee and warm.
Unlike Matt, I quite like French press coffee (or at least I did last time I tried it), but I never liked the gunk it leaves behind. I'm going to try out the Espro Press in its current 8-9 ounce incarnation, which can be bought for around $70. If you want something larger, a 30-ounce version is currently making its way through Kickstarter, where you can snap one up for just $85 (retail will be $100).
Espro Press product page [Espro. Thanks, Bruce!]
Espro Press [Kickstarter]
